What is Zamzam water? Q. What is Zamzam water? I heard it has healing properties, is that really true?
A. Dear Sarah, Zamzam is a well in Makkah that sprang 4000 years ago when Ishmael the son of Abraham and Hagar pounded the ground with his feet out of thirst while his mother Hagar was running in the desert looking for water for her crying infant. Read More >>
In Arabic, the word “righteousness” comprises the meanings of good, beneficial and right. In Arabic, the verb “to amend” (I’slaa’h) is also derived from the same root.
Consequently, in English, every type of beneficial and good work or action done for the good of religion is expressed by the word “righteous deed”. Read More >>
PHOTO-TIPS
Gradiant Edges Now if we have the same effect of this filter, all around, wouldn’t that look nice? I think so. But you’ll have to prove me wrong to say no. So, come on, let’s do it. Read More >>
BOOKS IN FOCUS
“Believing as Ourselves” J. Lynn Jones I recall how awkward I felt when I saw Oum ‘Umar praying in the main prayer hall at the Purdue University’s Muslims Students Association (M.S.A.) mosque in West Lafayette, Indiana.
After all, isn’t congregational prayer required of men only? And shouldn’t women pray in their own separate hall away from men’s gawks, ogles, gazes, and stares?
For someone who grew up in Saudi Arabia, seeing a woman praying in the same prayer hall with men, albeit her taking a position cl... Read More >>
MACROPHONE
When You Look at Me What do you see when you look at me Do you see someone limited, or someone free
All some people can do is just look and stare Simply because they can’t see my hair
The History and Islaamic Purification of 'Haj ’Haj (pilgrimage) being a significant entity of the foundation of Islaam, it is important to understand its history in order to reflect on its value today.
Pilgrimage was established during the time of Prophet Abraham (P.B.U.H.). Allaah says in the ’Qura~n: “And remember when We showed Abraham the site of the [Sacred] House [saying]: Associate not anything [in worshipping] with Me and purify My House for those who circumambulate it [i.e. perform ’tawaaf] and those who st ... Read More >>
Women in the West today are viewed as minorities. This is not due to sheer numbers, for women constitute more than half the population. Women are viewed as a minority simply because they have been at a disadvantage historically. They have faced much turmoil in the West with respect ... Read More >>
MACROPHONE
My ’Haj: My own path towards Islaam On the occasion of this past ’Haj season, I could not help but recall my own ’Haj experience, including my path towards Islaam.
I have come a long way, and after having explored the many dark and evil sides of temptation, greed, and ignorance, remaining absurdly blind and insensitive to the consequences of my actions; I finally came to realize I was wasting my life and hurting others, and I lost all respect for myself.
’Haj: Enlighten Your Spirit Pilgrimage is one of the oldest liturgies that humans perform with the aim to achieve salvation.
In Islaam, pilgrimage is known as ’Haj, and it follows on the footsteps of Prophet Abraham (P.B.U.H.) (Ibraheem in Arabic), which he proclaimed according to the revelation from Allaah Almighty.
Simply 'Haj “And ’Haj (pilgrimage to Makkah) to the House (Ka‘bah) is a duty that humankind owes to Allaah, those who can afford the expenses (for one’s conveyance, provision and residence);” (Chapter of A~l ‘Imraan: 97)
’Haj certainly is a journey of a life-time; it takes Muslims on a pilgrimage to Makkah (in Saudi Arabia) where barren deserts and red mountain ranges form part of the historic birthplace of Islaam. Read More >>
Once we have left the tranquil confines of Al’haram and resumed our busy and often stressful lives, the closeness we felt to Allaah and the unity of Muslims that is palpable during ’Haj may have unfortunately quickly become a warm but distant memory. Read More >>
Rana, a then Ph.D. student at Purdue University, once said to I-MAG’s copyeditor Ibrahim Babelli “You Muslims have no mother Teresa.” Babelli answered “That’s right. We have Abdulrahman Alsumait [‘Abd Alra’hmaan Al’sumai’t] instead.”
The Kuwaiti doctor who quit a bright career in medicine in the beginning of the 1980s to help Africans to help themselves is considered a role model amongst many Muslim. Alsumait who is now 60 years old and
While acknowledging the significance of that day, he said, simply: “I was in a profound state of grief about the world before 9/11, and nothing that happened on that day has significantly changed what the world looks like to me.”
Because Jim is a bit older and considerably smarter than I, it took me some time to catch up to him, but eventually I recognized ... Read More >>
MED-AWARE
Medicinal Uses of Honey For more than three thousand years, honey has been used to treat a variety of ailments through topical and oral application.
Assyrian relics, for examples, show that honey was used as a medicine, and similar medical usage was reported in ancient Egyptian annals, which stated that honey aids the healing process of wounds and in treating abdominal and urinal ailments, in addition to its use for ophthalmologic application. Read More >>
The importance of national dialogue, in the absence of which we lapse into a conflict that depletes all energy, cannot be overemphasised; hence calls for change, for reform of the constitution, for new parties to be established, for emergency laws to be annulled so all political trends can participate in the democratic process without fear and without attempting either to retain power for life.
I also wish to express admiration for Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni [Faaroo’q Hunsny].
Bridges Foundation: Peace making through Education Religion has always been taken as a ground to initiate wars throughout the history of humanity, so why Allaah Almighty (God) created us in different races?
Fadel Soliman [Faa’dil Sulaymaan], the former Imaam of the American University at Washington DC, the former host of “the Islaamic Show” in Channel 30 at the American TV, and the former host of “let the ’Qur a~n speak” at the American radio, explains this diversity from the Holy ’Qura~n which states:
Mu’hammad Peace Be Upon Him Imagine this: You are at work, in the shops, on a bus. You overhear strangers maligning someone you don’t know. What do you do? Nothing?
Or this: You are at work, in the shops, on a bus. You overhear strangers maligning someone you cherish; your mother, your father, your husband, your wife. What do you do? Defend them? Set the record straight and demand an apology, even at the risk of causing a scene?
Why is that? Because, we want ‘respect’? Because right or wrong, no-one talks t ... Read More >>
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