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The Puppy

12Oct09

Source: SuhaibWebb.com
Inspiring and simply beautiful.

We had just finished dinner and had 20 genay [Egyptian currency] left over from the pool of cash we had put together. While discussing what to do with the money, one of the sisters suggested, “There’s a boy who sleeps outside Awlad Ragab [the local grocery store]. You know, he’s got [...]


Source: NewIslamicDirections

A. Silence (الصمت) is to refrain from speaking falsely; not truthfully.
Al-Kafawi, al-Kulliyyat
الصمت إمساك عن قول الباطل دون الحق  – الكفوي  الكليات
Silence (الصمت) differs from not speaking (السكوت) in three ways:
1. Not speaking is to leave off speech despite being capable of it. Capability is not a consideration in defining silence.
2. Silence (الصمت) also involves [...]


Ramadan Resources:
1. Approaching Ramadan by Imam Zaid Shakir [Zaytuna.org]
2. Ramadan Advice by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf [ibid]
3. Preparing for Ramadan [Ashrafiya Blog]
4. Ramadan Schedule [ibid]
5. Ramadan Daily Checklist [MeccaOne]
6. Ramadan Preparation with Imam Zaid Shakir [ibid]
7. The Virtues of Standing in Prayer in the Month of Ramadan [Seeker's Guidance]
8. Ramadan Reminders Part 1 – The Transformative [...]


By Bilal Malik
From advertisements of new, essentially better, products and services on television and radio targeted for every age group, the sexualization of society through television programs that reduce humans to mere animal impulses, the misogyny, violence, crime, nihilism, intoxication, anarchy, the normalization of sexual perversion and many other vices being praised through the ever-invasive [...]


Source: New Islamic Directions

Like the light of a meteor streaking across the crisp, cold, clear sky of a winter’s night, Michael Jackson, streaked across the sky defining this country’s cultural horizons. None of us coming of age in urban America will forget Michael’s debut onto the public stage with his brothers as part of the [...]


Source: at-Talib

What is it and where did it come from?
Consider Valentine’s Day, a day that after dying out a well deserved death in most of Europe (but surviving in Britain and United States) has suddenly started to emerge across a good swath of Muslim countries. Who was Valentine? Why is this day observed? Legends abound, as [...]


A brief but beautiful account of the historical, academic, spiritual and political lineage of the scholars of the Waliullahi Tradition, The ‘Ulema of Deoband.
Source: the brilliant Pearls of the Elders blog
The following article has been taken from Maulana Mahmood Ahmad Ghazi’s work, ‘Islamic Renaissance in South Asia (1707-1867): The Role of Shah Waliullah and his successors.’
Scholars of the Waliullahi Tradition – The ‘Ulema of Deoband 

In the chapter entitled, [...]


Source: at-Talib 
From coffee to cheques and the three-course meal, the Muslim world has given us many innovations that we take for granted in daily life. As a new exhibition opens, Paul Vallely nominates 20 of the most influential- and identifies the men of genius behind them.  

1. The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending [...]


Source Imam Zaid Shakir

“Assalamualaikum,
You will surely be tested in your wealth and
your lives. And you will hear from those given
the scriptures before you and from the
idolaters much abuse. If you patiently
persevere, and remain mindful [of God],
surely in this is a manifestation of firm
resolve. [Al-Qur'an 3:186]
Enduring trials, tribulations, and bearing abuses are the crucibles through which [...]


A Description of the Prophetic Beauty صلى الله عليه وسلم :
Paraphrased from a passage by Imam al-Ghazali, in Book 19 of his Revival of the Religious Sciences, Ihya ‘Ulum al-Din.
‘The Messenger of God صلى الله عليه وسلم was the mildest of men, but also the bravest and most just of men. He was the most restrained [...]