Rabi`ul-ahir 1441
№3 (2019-12-01)

Sport for Women: What to Start With?

They say that we may lead a healthy lifestyle at any age. But over time, our body undergoes a series of changes that affect the ability to engage in...

Muslim Inventions that Changed the World: Degree-Granting Universities

The first formal madrasa was al- Karaouine, founded in 859 by Fatima al-Fihri in Fes, Morocco. Her school attracted some of the leading scholars of...

Ummu Ma’bad’s Bowl from which the Prophet Muhammad drank Milk during the Hijrah

On the way, they came upon tents. In one of them there lived an old woman, known as Ummu Ma’bad. She used to sit near one of the tents and give food...

Wonderful world

And We Send the Winds Fertilizing Meteorologists have proved that winds have an important role in forming the clouds as they carries water vapour...

The Prophet’s Advice regarding Vinegar

It was narrated from Aisha (may Allah be pleased with her) that the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings be upon him) said: “What a blessed...

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The Great Scholar Ibn Khaldun

About ten years ago, while in Tunisia, I used the local currency, dinars. My attention was caught by a striking portrait of a man wearing a Muslim turban on a 10-dinar banknote. Who was this man? I became curious. The portrait was labeled in both Arabic and French: “Ibn Khaldun,” along with the...


It is Faith That Transforms Character and One’s Outlook on the World

When a person embraces Islam or begins to practice his faith with depth and conscious intent, something far more profound occurs than a mere external change in lifestyle. He embarks on a path of fundamental transformation of his inner essence: a process known in religious tradition as tazkiyat...


Encouraging and Supporting Your Husband

Everyone experiences difficult days, problems or setbacks from time to time, and those things can weigh heavily on one’s state of mind. Women, as a rule, find it easier to share their feelings with loved ones or friends; venting or having a good cry during a warm, intimate conversation often...


Facing Rudeness: How to Survive in a World of Toxic Interaction

In the office, where dozens of people cross paths daily, in queues, on public transport, and especially across the vast expanse of the internet, we encounter them everywhere.     These are the people whose presence turns every interaction into a test of one’s endurance. In...


Dirham of Caliph al-Mahdi

In my collection, I have a silver dirham of the Caliph (leader of the Muslims) al-Mahdi, who inherited power from his father, Caliph al-Mansur.     The future Caliph al-Mahdi was born in 126 AH (744 AD) in the village of Humayma, located in present-day Jordan. As Caliph, his father...