FILED UNDER: Strengthening our Faith, Teaching, Video
TAGGED WITH:: mecca, medina, Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa, teaching
/by AishaSura Luqman emphasizes tarbiya, or spiritual growth, and is named after a great sage. In this series, Shaykh Ibrahim Osi-Efa explores the meanings of this chapter. Sura Luqman has 34 verses. Some say that all 34 verses were revealed in Mecca, while others say that all but two or three verses were revealed in Mecca. […]
FILED UNDER: Beneficial Knowledge, Featured Articles, Guidance, Islam, Prophet Muhammad, Seeking, Strengthening our Faith, The Prophet's Companions, Traditional Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: adab, Allah, community, du`a, islam, Knowledge, love, medina, mercy, Muhammad, prayer, prophet, Prophet Muhammad, Ramadan, reminder, seeking knowledge, spirituality, sunna
/by AishaWhat was it about the city of Madinah that the Prophet Muhammed loved so much? Shaykh Faid Mohammed Said sheds some light. Bismillah-ir Rahman-ir Raheem “Allah Guides to His Light Whom He Wills.” (Surah An-Nur) Allah (subhana wa ta’ala) has blessed everything with the Baraka and Nur of Rasulullah ﷺ, but from places, there is one city, […]
FILED UNDER: Community Building, Prophetic Guidance, Social Issues, Video
TAGGED WITH:: anarchy, beheading, bombings, carnage, extremism, ISIL, isis, medina, murder, SHAYKH FARAZ RABBANI, terrorism, terrorist, violence, war
/by Content TeamIn the aftermath of the July 2016 bombing in Medina, Saudia Arabia, Shaykh Faid Mohammed Said says we have an important and active choice to make. We can choose to speak with good and act with good in an attempt to be part of the solution amidst all the chaos and madness. Shaykh Faid Mohammed Said […]
FILED UNDER: News, Prophet Muhammad, Video
TAGGED WITH:: anarchy, beheading, bombing, carnage, extremism, gun crime, hate crime, ISIL, isis, killings, meaningless life, medina, murder, Muslim violence, racism, Saudi Arabia, SHAYKH FARAZ RABBANI, terrorism, terrorist, violence, war, xenophobia
/by Content TeamIn an unprecedented escalation of events, an explosion has occured close to the Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ mosque in Medina, allegedly detonated by a suicide bomber. The Medina bombing comes at the heels of the devastating violence in Iraq, Turkey and Bangladesh in recent weeks. Shaykh Faraz Rabbani makes it clear: where do we stand on such events and should we speak out? […]
FILED UNDER: Featured Articles, history, News, Prophetic Guidance, Social Issues
TAGGED WITH:: anarchy, beheading, bombing, carnage, extremism, gun crime, hate crime, ISIL, isis, killings, meaningless life, medina, murder, Muslim violence, racism, Saudi Arabia, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, terrorism, terrorist, violence, war, xenophobia
/by Content TeamVigilante acts of violence have killed hundreds around the world in the last few days. Shaykh Hamza Yusuf writes plainly on the dark and destructive ideology which underpins groups like ISIS and their sympathisers. According to a good hadith related by Ahmad and al-Tabarani, the Messenger of God, may God’s peace and blessings be upon him, said, […]
FILED UNDER: PC Prophet Muhammad
TAGGED WITH:: concern for others, medina, politics, prophetic guidance, Zaytuna College
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When the Prophet (Allah bless him and give him peace) entered Yathrib, it was renamed ‘Medina’, meaning ‘city’. This change marked the beginning of a shift of focus in revelation; the foundations of faith laid in Mecca would now rapidly take on many new pillars of outward practice. In other words, the city of Medina would […]
FILED UNDER: Article-General, Events, Knowledge
TAGGED WITH:: answers, hajj, mecca, medina, pilgramage, questions, videos
/0 Comments/by ErinDhul Hijja, the month of Hajj, is fast approaching. Hundreds and thousands of blessed Muslims are packing their bags, checking their travel documents and flocking to airports around the world, to make the journey to Mecca, Saudi Arabia. This brief document is a resource for those travelling for Hajj this year, or any year. It […]
FILED UNDER: Article-General
TAGGED WITH:: death, dying, graveyard, huffington post, medina, Ramadan
/0 Comments/by Content TeamLessons from a Medina Graveyard with Photos – Fahad Faruqui – HuffingtonPost One can learn many lessons at a graveyard. I once found myself helping carry the corpse of a stranger, an old woman, to its final abode. At the time, I was a 20-year-old on a family trip to the Holy City of Medina […]
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