Shawwal 1443
№5 (2022-05-01)

Distant Pathways: Islam in Colonial and Contemporary Latin America

By the time the hegemony of Spain gave way to nationalist independence movements throughout its colonies in the 18th and 19th centuries, variants of...

Amazing mosques of Turkey

World’s first underwater mosque The first underground mosque was constructed in Turkey’s Buyukcekmece district in Istanbul in 2013, the building...

Islam’s tolerance in a multi-confessional society

In the second half of the 19th century, along with Russian schools, there was a whole network of religious educational institutions of various...

Virtues of the righteous

CHAPTER 12 SPIRITUAL CHIVALRY AND MANLINESS The essence of magnanimity and courage Know that even if expressions differ in explaining the reality...

The shopping instinct in women

Everyone has one or more kinds of hobbies or passions. Every woman has her own individual hobbies. But one obsession is universal in all women and,...

Ramadan recipes: pamper yourself with persian poached pears

As Ramadan draws to a close why not treat yourself with a truly indulgent, special dessert – a poached Persian pear. Juicy, delicate and aromatic,...

Signs of the End of the World

Prophet of mercy (peace and blessings be upon him) told us 1,400 years ago about some future events that are really happening today as we see in our...

A rational proof of the moon splitting

There were many events that occurred in front of atheists but they did not obstruction them and they accepted them without any comment. One of these...

The Lower Heavens

What is meant by the lower heavens that are mentioned in the holy Koran? If we contemplate the galaxies of the universe, we will realize that such...

2026-08-01 (Safar 1448) №8.


The Soul is Like a Garden, Blooming or Fading

“Have you ever stepped out into the garden on a gloomy, rainy morning in late autumn? The trees are almost bare, drafty and swaying, fallen leaves are rotting on the paths, death and desolation are everywhere. Not only in the flowerbeds, above the drooping, yellowed stems of other flowers,...


Ways to Overcome Suspiciousness

Many of you have probably come across two excerpts from the personal diaries of a husband and wife covering the same short period of time online. The wife’s is a long, emotionally charged text about how her husband once responded sparingly to her greeting and then showed absentminded...


The Darkened Gardens of the Sabeans

We all know what the word “kafir” means in Arabic. It is so widely used by the masses that it has become part of our national languages. But not everyone knows that this word has another meaning: “ungrateful”, “denying” and “not recognizing the gifts of...


Feeding and Raising a Child

Ali bin Abu Talib said, “There is no milk more blessed and beneficial for feeding a child than his mother’s milk.”   Hilba infusion or decoction has a beneficial effect on milk production and secretion, but frequent consumption of hilba can alter the milk’s taste and...


Al-Dinawari: The Muslim Polymath

Abu Hanifa Ahmad ibn Dawud Dinawari, known as al-Dinawari, was born in 828 in Dinawar (near Kirmashan) and died in 895.   He was a Kurdish scholar of the Islamic Golden Age who made significant contributions to astronomy, botany, geography, agriculture, metallurgy, mathe-matics and history....