By Feisal Abdul Rauf The Washington Post April 1, 2011 1. American Muslims are foreigners. Islam was in America even before there was a United States. But Muslims didn’t peaceably emigrate — slave-traders brought them here. Historians estimate that up to 30 percent of enslaved blacks were Muslims. West African prince Abdul Rahman, freed by [...]
QUESTION: I am a christian. I believe Yoshua is my saviour and YHWH is my God. I do not believe Allah is my God, but I believe we may have common ground we can work on. Does that not make me an infidel whom you may kill? For I love all men with all my [...]
Dr Jamal A. Badawi provides a brief and authentic exposition of the teachings of Islam regarding women. CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES WOMEN IN ISLAM 1. The Spiritual Aspect 2. The Social Aspect (a) As a Child and Adolescent (b) As a Wife (c) As a Mother 3. The Economic Aspect 4. The political [...]
By Yasir Qadhi NOTE: This article was published in The Commercial Appeal, the largest newspaper of Memphis, TN. Two Tennessee legislators have proposed what amounts to a ban on the Islamic system of ethical, spiritual and legal teachings known as shariah.The authors of the bill incorrectly define shariah as a system of legal, political, military [...]
Why Shariah? By Noah Feldman New York Times 3/16/2008 Last month, Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, gave a nuanced, scholarly lecture in London about whether the British legal system should allow non-Christian courts to decide certain matters of family law. Britain has no constitutional separation of church and state. The archbishop noted that “the [...]
Islamophobia is widely rampant in the West. Individuals and groups with malicious intents are deliberately distorting the image of Islam and Muslims. Its dangerous implications were realized by the former U.N. Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and to confront it, he arranged a seminar in December 2004. A more recent example is the “Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week” [...]
“When the world is compelled to coin a new term to take account of increasingly widespread bigotry, that is a sad and troubling development. Such is the case with Islamophobia.” – UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan In a post Sept. 11th world, the phenomena of Islamophobia or distrust toward Muslims and Islam has grown exponentially. Sadly, [...]
There are an estimated 7 million Muslims in America. The Muslim community in America is made up of people from a wide variety of ethnic backgrounds and national origins. There are almost 2,000 mosques, Islamic schools and Islamic centers in America. Muslims are active in all walks of life. Islam is one of the fastest [...]
Quran 7:28] They commit a gross sin, then say, ”We found our parents doing this, and GOD has commanded us to do it.” Say, ”GOD never advocates sin. Are you saying about GOD what you do not know?” Terrorists have attacked again, and this time at the center of our world, New York City and Washington DC. It [...]
1. Are there any other sacred sources? Yes, apart from the Holy Koran, Muslims consider the sunnah—practices, sayings, and tacit approvals of the Prophet (pbuh)— to be a sacred source of religious guidance. In fact, it is considered the second authoritative source in Islam. Fortunately, Sunnah is accessible to Muslims in forms of transmitted reports with chains [...]
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