Ramadan 1441
№5 (8) (2020-05-01)

Intention / Du`a for fasting in Ramadan

The purpose of making an intention before every deed is to remind our inner self and confirm with our verbal intention that we seek the pleasure of...

Laylat al-Qadr - the Night of Decree

Almighty Allah has honored the month of Ramadan with the Night of Laylat al Qadr, the night of power and predestination. In the Noble Koran there is...

Iftar

Iftar is observed during the holy month of Ramadan. It is one of the oldest rituals followed by Muslims all over the world. Ramadan occurs in the...

Virtues of the Righteous

CHAPTER 4 Anger The cause of anger Know, Oh Muslims, that what arouses anger is a misunderstanding of the essence of the universe: there is only...

Flowers of Devotion: Women who Heal

“There is no disease that Allah has created for which He has not also created a remedy.” (Sahih al-Bukhari 5678) In 1465, an elderly Turkish...

Medical Quarantine

Doctors today confirm that the best way to control and ultimately get rid of severe infectious diseases is to place infected (or possibly infected)...

Billions of germs on our skin

The above is a microscopic photo which illustrates billions of bacteria on our skin there are many types of these bacteria. Scientists say that each...

Break your Fast with Dates during Ramadan

The date palm, which is mentioned more than any other fruit bearing plant in the Koran, is a symbol often associated with Islam and Muslims....

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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...


Salim, Grandson of Umar ibn al-Khattаb

Let us fast forward to the reign of Umar ibn al-Khattab. The richest spoils of war, which had fallen to the Muslims after the death of Yazdegerd, the last Persian king, were brought to Medina – the city of the Messenger of God ﷺ. Among the riches they acquired were the crowns of the Persian...


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...


The Predecessor of Mendeleev: Jabir ibn Hayyan

Chemistry as a science studies the structure of substances, their characteristics and the reactions that occur under various conditions.     For centuries, scientists have sought to expand their knowledge in this area and Muslim researchers have made significant contributions to the...


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....