Islam

The Religion Of Islam

  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 …

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The legacy of Victorian England’s first Islamic convert By Rahila Bano

On a bleak, wet and windy day in Liverpool the old Georgian, white-stoned building which once housed England's first registered mosque looks quite dull. The property on Brougham Terrace is just a few miles from Liverpool city centre but, in stark contrast to the newer council building next door to it, the paint is peeling off the front walls and …

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A Beautiful Dua

A beautiful dua….   O اللَّه , help me to say words of truth in the face of the mighty….  And to refrain from speaking ill in order to gain the applause of the weak…  And do not let me accuse my adversaries of treachery because their opinions oppose mine…   O اللَّه , should you give me wealth, do …

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Etiquette of eating in Islam

  Praise be to Allaah.    In Islam there is an etiquette for eating, which is divided into four categories:    1 – Etiquette before eating:  1 – Washing the hands before eating. The hands should be washed before eating, so that they may be clean when a person eats with them, and so that he will not be harmed by …

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අනුමත (හලාල්) හා තහනම් (හරාම්) සංකල්පය පිලිබඳ විග්‍රහයක්

  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 …

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