Imam Muhammad Zahid al-Kawthari (1879-1951, Cairo), the last Deputy Sheikh al-Islam of the Ottoman Empire, explained in his article on Hijab al-Mar’ah (Women’s Hijab, meaning to cover her body completely with loose clothing, not the modern misconception of the hijab as a “head scarf”):

It is human nature that everyone reacts in some way or the other when they meet people from different backgrounds. And often people jump to assumptions and make judgements regarding someone’s ethnicity. Not only this, certain people tend to devalue others’ identity and label them on the basis of their colour, cast, creed and sometimes […]

Early Years Bilal Abdul Kareem was born in 1970 in the US state of New York. There he grew up in a small suburb playing baseball and attending church services on Sunday. While still in primary school, he entered into an oratorical contest wherein he won 1st prize for his recitation of former US President […]

Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan all make up what is known as Bilad Ash-Shaam (بلاد الشام). Many parts of Shaam are currently undergoing tumultuous times, but this is nothing but a mercy from Allah TA’ALA and a means of their purification in the world, rather than the hereafter.

The Month of Rabi’ al-Awwal & the Sunna of the Noble Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him)

As soon as I woke up after the election night in America, messages from my relatives living in the US began to pour in. The one that struck me most was my aunt’s: “This is like a bad dream — I think I will wake up tomorrow and find out everything is back to normal.”

Madrassah or Islamic seminary is an institution for teaching and learning of Islamic theology and religious sciences.

The moderate government of Dr. Rouhani has been ruling in Iran for more than three years. It was supposed the Iranian Sunni community, as a vulnerable minority, would breathe easily after the hard times during the government of Ahmadinejad, the controversial president of Iran for eight years. But it has been proven the time for […]

Mawlana Ehtisham-ul-Haqq Asia-Abadi (may Allah bless him) was an outstanding student of Mufti Muhammad Shafi’ (the former Grand Mufti of Pakistan) and disciple of Mufti Rasheed Ludhianvi.

It was around the end of Rabi’ul awwal 1427, corresponding to April 2006, when I received a personal letter from His Highness Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad, the personal envoy and special advisor to His Highness, the King of the Jordanian Hashemite Kingdom, in which he had asked me some questions regarding Takfeer (rendering a person […]