Translation of بسم الله : ‘In (or With) the name of Allah’. [Note: The full phrase Bismillah hirrahman nirraheem (بسم الله الرحمان الرحيم) translates to In
MOST scholars, from the fatawa quoted below, say that the order of preference for sacrifice is: camel, cow, sheep, and then a share in a
IT is reported that Umar Bin Al-Khattab رضي الله عنه once came out and saw a traveling party and asked, “Who is this traveling party?”
MOST prominent TV channels have special coverage of the Haj pilgrimage, and thousands of viewers from all over the world tune in to Saudi TV’s
By ‘spiritual health’ I don’t mean some kind of pseudo-science type of health craze. Islam is full of reference to the creation of Man beyond
Emotions control our thinking, behavior and actions. They affect our physical bodies as much as our body affects our feelings and thinking. There are only
SHORTLY after arriving back in London for the last two weeks of Ramadan, one of my sisters informed me of her colleagues and boss who
MOST people my parents’ age would say that Ramadan is less “family-oriented than it used to be” and it seems to be the time where
I remember the beginning of Ramadan a few years ago: the festive supermarkets with their jampacked aisles, the makeshift roadside stalls outside restaurants selling crisp sambusas
LOOKING at the abundance of food on our Iftar tables, it never ceases to appall me how much time, energy, expense and effort is spent in