I often get into debates with people about women in Islam. How we dress. How we don't dress. What we think or don't think or should-be-thinking. I get into debates about feminism. What it is and what it isn't. I think I've spawned permanent foes because I don't care to apply the label, feminist, to describe myself. (I'm not one …

The Qur'an is the final book Allah sent to all people. Every person living on the earth is responsible for learning the Qur'an and fulfilling the commands communicated in it. Most people, however, do not learn it and fulfil what Allah commands in the Qur'an, although they accept it as a divine book. This is a consequence of their not …

Moses, peace be upon him, married one of the women he had initially helped at the waterhole and spent the next ten years working with her father and raising his own family.  His new life was quiet and contemplative, he did not have to endure the intrigue of the Egyptian court or the humiliation of his people, the Children of …

Speacial scholarship for A/L students at Zahira College, Colombo G.C.E. Advanced Level | Admission Walk-in-Interviews will be held from 20th April 2015 to 30th April 2015 from 8.30 am to 2.30 pm. please check the notice for more details. M.ALTHAF FAROOK Al Ahsa Islamic Center +94777898027/ 00966503148137

Assalamu Alaikum Warahmathullahi Wabarakathuhu The National Shoorah Council (NSC) deliberates in this issue about the haunting narcotics menace that is gripping the community and the country. Alcohol, liquor, smoking and other matters that harm individual and social health are generally prohibited in Islam. Some of these prohibitions are observed and practiced by some of our co-religionists too in our country. …

After walking for more than a week across the burning desert, Moses arrived at an oasis where groups of men were watering their animals.  They were pushing, fighting, joking, and laughing, behaving in a rough, and tumble manner as Moses flung himself onto the ground grateful for the shade of a tree.  As he caught his breath, he noticed two …