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Hajj Rituals-The Path of Taqwa

Every year millions of people around the world apply for visas hoping for a chance to perform the last Pillar of Islam, Hajj. In many countries, and because of the

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Is It Selfish?

Is it selfish to want to matter, To want to want to live to see your family another day? Don’t know if that is greed, but all I do know

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Memories of Hajj

It would seem that growing up seeing pictures of the Kaabah all around, hanging somewhere in the home of seemingly every person you know, on book covers and Eid cards,

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Prejudice-Less

I want to live in a world that is prejudice-less; A world where judgment doesn’t exist. We live in a world where categorizing whole groups of people is the norm,

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What is Terrorism to a Muslim?

“Shut up you A-rab” are words I will never forget.  Those sharp words directed at my friend were my first direct encounter with racism; at the age of twelve.  And

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Quranic Word “Athara”

أثر أثارة، أثرا، يأثر Athara To relate, narrate, recite, choose, propose, transmit, raise, prefer, effect and excite. The three letters combined of Alif, Thaa’ and Raa’ include the meaning of

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Sunan Al-Fitra

The term Sunan Al-Fitra is in relation to the cleanliness that is universal to all humans regardless of their faith. It is a human hygienic approach towards cleanliness and preventing

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IVF and Islamic Bioethics

In Vitro Fertilization, commonly referred to as IVF, a medical procedure that was introduced in 1978, joins a woman’s egg and a man’s sperm outside the body in a manner

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Self-Confidence Not Arrogance

It was narrated that Imam Al-Shafei (RAA) was asked: “How did you reach this level of humbleness?” He said: “I never met a believer but I felt he was better

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Six Days of Shawwal

Abu Ayoub narrated that the prophet (PBUH) said: “One who fasts Ramadan and then followed it with six (days of) Shawwal that is (as if) fasting the eon (of time.)

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