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Are you ready to struggle to learn Islam?

They can do the painstaking actions to learn the beneficial stuff. Can we do the similar to learn about ‘Islam’ if we really think that ‘Islam’ is beneficial for us? Read the following two stories. The first story is from one of the successful investor and philanthropist in present time and the next story is from […]

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Legacy

Preamble The Messenger of Allah (Sm) said: “Don’t revile my companions, for by the One in Whose hand is my soul, if one of you were to spend the equivalent of Uhud in gold, it would not amount to a mudd of one of them, or half of that” (Bukhari 3673, Muslim 2540) Right efforts […]

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Means of Knowledge

Allah says: “And follow not that of which you have no knowledge; surely the hearing and the sight and the heart, all of those, shall be questioned about that.” (17: 36) Allama Tabatabai* explained the verse in this way: { Our primordial nature (‘fitra’) says that one must follow knowledge and should not follow anything […]

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Who is my Religious teacher?

Problem: Professor Tariq Ramadan highlighted a problem in his book “To be a European Muslim, pp. 117-8, which compelled me to search for my perfect religious teacher(s) : “We are witnessing among the young European (or Western*) Muslims, the unhealthy development of a complex whereby they discredit themselves and think the right responses should come […]