Why should a Muslim keep a beard?

I’ve been in holidays since the 9th of April, and I’ve been growing my beard, partly because I’m lazy to shave, but mostly because it is Sunnah. The reason I didn’t grow it at school is because our principal at Verney College doesn’t allow it, and I’m not going to criticize it further as there [...]

No ResponsesApril 25th, 2008

“Islam and the West need to engage”

Salams. While searching today in the internet, I found one great article on my usual news website, and as I said in the title it is about the needance to unite the West and Islamic Religion, but it is not just about needene that it talks, but also how this process is evoluting, knowing that [...]

One ResponseApril 24th, 2008

Hell vs Paradise - Share

A PIOUS MAN was having a conversation with GOD one day and said.
Allah, I would like to know what Heaven and Hell are like.
Allah led the man to two doors.
He opened one of the doors and the man looked in. In the middle of the room was a large round table. In the middle of [...]

No ResponsesApril 15th, 2008

What does 786 mean?

“786″ is the total value of the letters of “Bismillah al-Rahman al-Rahim”. In Arabic there are two methods of arranging letters. One method is the most common method known as the alphabetical method. Here we begin with Alif, ba, ta, tha etc. The other method is known as the Abjad method [...]

No ResponsesApril 10th, 2008

Fitna - The Movie Critic

Salams.
Here in this blog or even in none of mine islamic blogs i will not develop an approfunded review or something like that to the movie Fitna, because we all muslims know perfectly that the movie is one more from the thousands we have on youtube, liveleak, etc. Despite knowing that, a muslim person commented [...]

No ResponsesApril 8th, 2008

Islam Misunderstood?

People all over the world (non-muslim people) are thinking Islam is a religion of War, of Terrorism, a religion were we don’t find peace, were we don’t find a road (…to peace). But they are totally, but very much totally misunderstood.
 
Let me ask you one thing. If we have a group of 100 people, [...]

No ResponsesApril 4th, 2008

“Bedevilled World” by Prof. Azharul Islam released

In New Delhi, today, it was released a new book by Global Media Publications, a leading New Delhi-based publishing house. The book discusses themes such as the tentative os defaming Islam with the “garb of terrorism”. In his prespective, terrorism was used to manipulate all muslim comunities and to convince them the necessity to take [...]

No ResponsesMarch 29th, 2008

When you enter Jannah

WHEN YOU ENTER JANNAH, EXPECT THIS
INSHA ALLAH AMEEN

When Mu’min enters into Jannah, it will be announced: -

You will remain healthy forever, disease will never come.

You will remain alive forever, death will never come.

You will remain in bounties, which will never be finished.

Jannat is made [...]

No ResponsesMarch 25th, 2008

Wild in the West End

At Al-Ahram, evwey weekend we have a supplement about travel. this time Rehab Saad tells his story visiting London
 
This was not my first trip to London. My first visit was six years ago and it was memorable. London was the first European city I had ever visited, however, I didn’t feel like a stranger, not [...]

No ResponsesMarch 23rd, 2008

Leave Muslims Alone

Robert Fisk: The only lesson we ever learn is that we never learn
19 March 2008
Five years on, and still we have not learnt. With each anniversary,
the steps crumble beneath our feet, the stones ever more cracked, the
sand ever finer. Five years of catastrophe in Iraq and I think of
Churchill, who in the end called Palestine [...]

No ResponsesMarch 20th, 2008