Imam Sharani
Imam Sharani was one of the great awliya of Egypt and an imam of Islamic law of the Shafii School. His given name was Abdulwahhab. He was born in 1491...
What the Arab Spring Teaches Us
Islamic World is going through a relatively difficult and erratic period for the last couple of years as with the Arab Spring in the Middle East compared to the time...
Unity and Consultation
“Hold fast to God’s rope all together, and split not into factions” (Āl ‘Imran 3/103) The relationship of believers one to the other is like that of the bricks of...
Consolidating the Consultation Culture and Civil Societies
Consultation and counsel seem to offer possible solutions for certain monolithic and authoritarian leanings in the Islamic world. The initiatives to organize mechanisms to provide such consultation within ummah should...
Political and Economic Integration: the fruits of Islamic unity
By Mohd Yunus Aminuddin* Imam Bediuzzaman Said Nursi`s thoughts and commentary on Islamic unity in relation to political and economic integration provides us with a new vision about the future,...
Racism
Nationalism, and its extreme version racism, has fed many conflicts in the history of the world. These illnesses, which are now aggravated problems amongst the world’s Muslims, are capable of...
Rohingya: The Most Persecuted and Forgotten Muslim Minority
Rohingya Muslims in Arakan State, located in the west of Myanmar, are under oppression since early June and international community is not aware of the real dimensions of the tyranny...
Ramadan and the Social Life
One of the benefits of fasting can be explained as follows: There are people that Allah has created who live in different walks of life. Allah tests some people as...
Benefits of Fasting
There are many benefits of fasting. Some of them are as follows: 1. It reminds us our Lord and that we are His servants. 2. It teaches us to give...
The Wisdom Behind Calamities
Disasters are facts of life and they are not meaningless. If we try to read the messages that they convey to us, we may receive the wisdom behind them. وَاتَّقُواْ...