Every year the Muslim community celebrates its holy month of Ramadan and Eid festivals by waging moonsighting wars. Do we follow Saudi, local sighting, calculations, global sighting, etc.? To be honest, I really don’t care about this issue since there is a much more important issue involved.There was a time, …

The Messenger of Allah performed ablution [wudu] one day and his companions began to wipe themselves with the water he used. The Prophet asked them, “why would you do something like this?” They replied, ”for the love of Allah and His messenger.” The prophet then said, “whoever sincerely wished to love Allah …

It is said that Islam is the fastest growing religion in the world. Despite the fact that I am a Muslim, I would make a different claim. Ir-religion is the fastest growing religion in the world, if it’s possible to say that. What I mean is that more people abandon …

“Verily, We have revealed the Admonition [the Qur'an] and We will protect it.” (Al-Hijr 15:9)This prophecy has been undoubtedly confirmed by the fact that the Qur’an has remained free from all alterations, additions, or subtractions since the time it was revealed. The purity of the Qur’anic text is admitted by both …

One of the biggest obstacles that Muslims face today is their own ignorance of Islam. Excessive literalism has caused so many problems and misunderstandings that it might have been better than no text was available at all to be misinterpreted. 
For example, the Prophet said, “Whoever says that there is no god but …

Down With Superstitions and Myths
Many people think that believing in God requires a “leap of faith”. This would mean that belief in God is blind and is no different than belief in any other superstition or myth. For example, to believe that breaking a mirror will cause seven years of …

             A common misconception among many people is that they believe the texts of the Qur’an and Hadith are intended for all of mankind and are so clear that anyone fairly literate should be able to read them and understand what they mean. The first part of this idea is …