The Obligatory Prayers and the Broader Command to Remember Allah
We all each now and then meet and hear about people who perform the daily obligatory prayers for a period of time […]
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Mercy: The Understated Sign of Islam
About eighteen months ago, I wrote an article about the particular leadership qualities of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that this beautiful verse […]
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Mistaking Islam for a State: Misunderstanding Religion and Revering False History
The evil of ISIS has been filling news bulletins with stories that seem to be incessantly in competition to show how low […]
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Qur’anophobia: The Core Truth of Islamophobia
“Islamophobia” is an established term that denotes prejudice against, hatred towards, and fear of Islam and Muslims. At times Muslims are targeted […]
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Sources of Misinterpreting the Qur’an
Like any scripture, and indeed any text, the Qur’an is open to different interpretations. Some interpretations are plausible, others are possible but […]
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The Islamic Caliphate Between Past Myths and Present Delusions
The Islamic caliphate is promoted by its advocates on the basis that it was an ideal system of Islamic government in the […]
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The Meaning of “Being News”: The Persecution of Religious Minorities by ISIS
The rise of The Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and its extreme form of intolerance, persecution of Christians and Yezidis, […]
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Mind Your Feet, Forget Your Heart: An Illustration of the Predicament of Muslims
Like any collective activity, the Muslim congregational prayer (salāt al-Jamā’a) must have its rules, so that all participants can perform it in […]
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Calculating the Ramadan Timetable in High Latitude Cities Using Mecca’s Length of the Fast
Yesterday, I published an article on the option of using the length of the fasting day in Mecca or Medina when fasting […]
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Fasting Ramadan when the Day is Extremely Long or Short and the Moderation of Islam
Last year I published an article about The Length of the Fasting Day of Ramadan in which I discussed the fact that […]
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The Dangerous Message of the Coup in Egypt: Political Islam has no Place in Democracy
The democratically elected but now deposed President of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi, seems to have managed in the twelve months he was in […]
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Seeing The Arab Spring Through the Spectacles of Sectarianism
The highly respected and influential Sunni cleric Shaikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi recently attacked the Syrian regime and called on Muslims to join the […]
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The Misguided and Counterproductive Attempts to Silence Those who Question Islamic Tradition and History
On the 28th/August/2012, the British TV broadcaster Channel 4 screened a program titled Islam: The Untold Story by historian Tom Holland. The […]
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The Length of the Fasting Day of Ramadan
A Muslim brother who in recent years moved from Europe to Canada sent me an email after reading my article The Secret of […]
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The Secret of Seeing the Invisible Lunar Crescent of Ramadan
Every year, the fasting month of Ramadan presents the Muslims around the world with the question of when it exactly starts and […]
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