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  "MUHAMMAD", the young Saudi boy, who appeared no more than 7 years old, shouted at my colleague, a respected senior Engineer from Syria who had been working in Saudi for many years. "MUHAMMAD!" My colleague turned to me, rolling his eyes in sad resignation, and said, "Welcome to Saudi Arabia!" I had been in Saudi only a few days and …

  The first thing that one should know and clearly understand about Islam is what the word "Islam" itself means. The religion of Islam is not named after a person as in the case of Christianity which was named after Jesus Christ, Buddhism after Gautama Buddha, Confucianism after Confucius, and Marxism after Karl Marx. Nor was it named after a …

 Will the Universe Collapse on 21/12/2012   

  අනුමත-කැප (හලාල්) හා තහනම්-අකැප (හරාම්) සංකල්පය පිළිබඳව නොයෙක් ආකාරයේ නිවැරදි නොවූ මත ඉදිරිපත්වී ඇති බව දකින්නට ඇත. මෙයට ප්‍රධාන හේතුව, මේ පිළිබඳව සිංහල බසින් ප්‍රමාණවත් අර්ථ දැක්වීම් ඉදිරිපත් නොවී තිබීම බව අපගේ අදහසයි. එහෙයින් මෙම කරුණු සියල්ල සලකා බලා මෙම සංකල්පය පිළිබඳව කෙටි විග්‍රහයක් ඉදිරිපත් කරන්නට අදහස් කළෙමු. හලාල් (අනුමත) හා හරාම් (තහනම්) යන අරාබි වචන ප්‍රයෝජනයට ගැනීමෙන්, මෙය …

Islam has been the only religion since Adam for all those people who think that Islam was the religion of the Prophet Muhammad. Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Jonah and the final Prophet of God Muhammad were all followers of Islam which means submission to the one God (not a trinity), not a man, not Jesus but the one true living …

  I remember the first time I went for Umrah was when I was about 16 or 17 years old. That was the time when my family was not really a 'practicing' Muslim family. Yeah sure, we prayed and fasted, but that was about the only thing I knew about Islaam…nothing much more than that.   Included in that was my ignorance …