Abu Dujanah always used to pray behind Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam). As soon as he would finish his Salah, he would immediately leave the Masjid. This caught the eyes of Nabi (sallallahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) so one day he stopped him and asked: ‘O Abu Dujanah, don’t you need anything from Allah?” Abu Dujanah (radiyallahu ‘anhu) replied: ‘O… Read More »
What does it mean to die young? Many months ago, I was visiting the famous New York City to attend an event of curious young persons who ask big questions. On the final day of the event, we gathered in Rockefeller Park just by World Trade Center One. Beyond the fact that the date was September 10th, there… Read More »
Let’s be honest: The world can be a pretty terrible place. From personal losses to national tragedies and global disasters and everything in between… It’s easy to feel depressed about the state of the world. Just thinking about the sheer amount of awfulness around us can be completely overwhelming—even paralyzing. The problems are far too big for any… Read More »
The man thinks 5$ : 500$ seems like a good ratio so he says sure. Einstein asks what is the distance between Earth and the moon?The man hands over 5$ to him and replied I don’t know. Now its the Indian man turn to ask Einstein a question. He asks “which animal goes up a mountion with 3 legs and comes down with 4?” Einstein… Read More »
When a person dies, in the beginning, he does not know that he died instead he feels himself dreaming of death and found himself weeping, bathing tangled while going into the grave. When he is stacked upon the ground he always felt that he’s dreaming then he shouts but no one answers him. When everyone leaves him, he… Read More »
Recently I featured the New American Bible as a banned book, which was a shock to many and garnered some fairly strong opinions in the comments in the discussions that followed. But would that outrage be just as strong if it were someone else’s sacred text? I’m about to put that theory to the test. Just as with the Christian Bible,… Read More »
According to the Alawi sect, the jinn are part of the “circle of time”, belonging to a period preceding the creation of mankind. Therefore before humans, the hinn, binn, timm, rimm, jann, and jinn resided on the earth. These six periods symbolize negative progress, until humans emerge; thus the first letters of the first four circles mean Habtar (here referring to the personification of evil) and the latter referring to jann… Read More »
As the world embarks on the three-day holiday of Ramadan Bayram, also known as Eid al-Fitr, from May 13-15, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan in which devout Muslims practice a 30-day fast, this is an opportune time to take a look at some of the unique Turkish traditions for celebrating what is often referred… Read More »
The Ansar were very happy with the coming of the messenger of Allah to their town and his taking it as the capital of his state. After the conditions had been orderly in Medina, the Prophet (a.s.) took very important steps such as: Brotherhood among Muslims The first step the Prophet (a.s.) took was that he made the… Read More »
There’s a difference between living and being alive and you’d be surprised at how many people are just breathing through existence, like human plants. Many are in fact touted as models of society — The oilers of economic engines, earning scrap paper working jobs they don’t care about and buying shit they don’t need. Rinse . Cycle .… Read More »