Assalaam Alaikum all
The "rights and status of women" was the subject of our Holy Prophets (peace and blessings be upon Him) Last Sermon
http://www.themodernreligion.com/prophet/prophet_lastsermon.htm
Please check it.
To the translations of Chapter 4 verse 34 add Asads...
This was the front page headline of the "DAWN" Metropolitan yesterday.
It claimed The World Cup was distracting muslims ffrom their duty of Jihad - especially young muslims.
Also the World Cup fostered such "Western" vices as prostitution which rose in Germany during the games.
I have...
Nice one,bigvindaloo.
I agree. The correlation is coincidental not causal. Third world countries suffer tremendous drawbacks and infant mortality is just one of the handicaps to a developing economy.
Religion is there to offset the tragic nature of daily existence.
What is connected is high...
Hello,urwithme.
You must be very young by the way you describe your feelings.I m not sure I understand the "because of my religion" aspect. Allah has placed mutual feelings of love + respect in man and woman. Surah Rum Ayah 21. That Surah was help ful to me when I was going through something...
I have a question, or enquiry which has been on my mind for some time.
It is claimed that Islam has been "hi-jacked"-as if such a thing were possible! Yet I find myself taken aback by the images of extremism and fanaticism portrayed by the media.
Is Islam just going through a phase, just...
That is where we have to begin,I think. That connexion is essential with anOther.Call it "need" or faith or dependence. A dynamic of relationship is necessary. It divides the religious from the non-religious. A dialogue with an Unknown exists.
I think my awareness of God began with the realisation that I am a created being-the result of being created,not something else.It was a devastating realisation.
All my knowing of God and myself as "religious" has rested on that.
In becoming a muslim,as far as I have understood and experienced, you lose all nationality and individual identity.
In a sense you move freely in a new world.
Its what Ive felt more and more living here,in Pakistan as a "visitor".
In Surah Ahazb (33) we are exhorted to "shower blessings" on the Prophet (peace be upon Him).Being a Quranic injunction its strongly held to. Hence,I assume ,Its in the Salaat.
Apart from that , in prayer during the Tashahhud, we say "Allah s peace be upon you,O Prophet" as if we are addressing...