I on behalf of everyone here at Ekhlas would like to thank the following people (in no specific order) for their kind and generous support throughout the entire ordeal of having to deal with the false accusations:
And all my fellow DPrs
Sidi Mikael Pittam
Sidi ‘Umar Andrea
Sajjad Sher Afghan
Brother Hamza Isa Jennings
Brother Nebo
Brother Asif
Brother Abdul Rahiim Halim
Brother [...]

Bismillah,
I would like to inform everyone who has been following this whole event that unfortunately another website called Panorama.it has mistakenly linked to ekhlas.wordpress.com:
The page can be found here
I have also sent them a similar letter to the one I sent the Il Messaggero newspaper [a copy of which was posted on ekhlas.wordpress.com earlier].
I request [...]

Bismillah.
Hereunder is a copy of the letter that I have emailed to the Il Messaggero Newspaper:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Dear Foreign Editorial Unit, Il Messaggero,
Ref: “Terrorismo, Al Qaeda apre un sito in italiano”
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=22443&sez=HOME_NELMONDO
The abovementioned article which was published on April 14, 2008 on the Il Messaggero website at the link given above, mentions in the opening [...]

Bismillah.
After seeing a sudden spike/increase in ekhlas’s visitors in the ‘Blog Stats’ section of WordPress Dashboard, I decided to take a look at where these visitors were coming from in the ‘Referrers’ section of the Dashboard.
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=22443&sez=HOME_NELMONDO
The above link was the most occurring Referrer.
When I went to this link it opened up to what looked [...]

Source: Imam Suhaib Webb’s Blog

The Sultan of the ‘Ulema, al’Iz al-Din ‘Abdu al-Salam wrote:
“The way to Allah is made up of the apparent and the inner. Its apparent path is Shari’ah and its actualization is the inner. Two words bring both the apparent and the inner together: “It is You alone we worship and it is You alone we [...]

‘Reposts’ are posts of yester- day/week/year which shall be posted again, Insha Allah once a week and can be found in the ‘Reposts’ category.
Original post date: April 2, 2007.
By Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah [Source: TheTranslators]:

Sheikh Abdullah bin Bayyah is one of the foremost scholars of Islamic Law alive today. He is a professor at [...]

Source: at-Talib

Q: what can one do to increase his memory and focus?

A: Here are a couple of brief tips:
1. Guard your gaze and your ears. There can be nothing more distracting than television, a wrong glance, or a tune that won’t go away.2. Recite after every salat the masnun du’as. In addition, recite “Ya Qawiyy” eleven [...]

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 [...]

Source: Seeker’s Digest

Perhaps the most comprehensive statement ever made concerning this inward dimension of hajj was made by Junayd al-Baghdadi, the great 3rd century faqih and sufi. [Shaykh Faraz Rabbani]
A man came to visit Junayd and Junayd asked him where he had come from. He replied that he had just returned from hajj. Junayd said to him, [...]

Sources: Seeker’s Digest, New Islamic Directions

One of the gravest charges levied against Islam, in terms of its alleged antipathy towards women, is the charge that it encourages a phenomenon known as honor killings. This un-Islamic practice consists of the murder of female family members who are seen as dishonoring their families through real or perceived [...]