What One Should Do after Pronouncing the Shahadah

After pronouncing the Shahadah, it is from the Sunnah that a person do certain things. Learn ...

How to Raise Truthful Children

Islam commands that in the hearts of the children the seeds of the greatness and importance ...

Keeping Priorities Straight: 24th Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

Based on this principle of priority, you have to perform the require obligations before the ...

Islam and the Right of Privacy

In Islam, the right of privacy for every individual is highly respected. Prying into people’ ...

The Obligatory Acts of Wudu’ (the Ablution)

Ablution has certain components which, if not fulfilled according to the correct Islamic pro ...

Witnessing God’s Bounty and Your Shortcomings: 23rd Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

If you want the doors of hope opened, recall what He offers you, and if the doors of awe ope ...

The Prophethood of Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him)

It was just such a young, forceful and virile people that was needed to disseminate the teac ...

Islam: The Religion of Nature

The function of the nature is to follow the right path, and to rush towards it, unless it is ...

Mercy with People’s Faults: Twenty Second Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

A person, who learns of people’s secrets and does not have Godly mercy on them, brings upon ...

Physical Purity: Essential Condition of Prayer

“Allah does not accept any prayer that was not performed while in a state of purity, nor doe ...

How to Acquire Knowledge of God?

How does one acquire knowledge of and belief in God, His Attributes, His Law and the Day of ...

Maintaining Discipline in Worship

His wife noticed a great change in his demeanor. They had several discussions about his work ...

Dealing with People’s Praise: Twenty First Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

While journeying to God we will be put to many tests. One of those tests pertains to people& ...

Certainty of Faith, Indifference about the World: Twentieth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

I cannot proceed in my journey to God while forgetting my journey to the Hereafter. One shou ...

What Qur’an and Sunnah Say about Those Who Ignore Their Prayers

Prayer is one of the most important acts in Islam. Allah strongly warns those who tamper wit ...

The True Muslim between Islam and Iman

How iman (faith) is related to Islam? Who is the Muslim, and who is the mu’min? Is there Isl ...

Distress and Need of Him: Nineteenth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

The word of wisdom under discussion is about du`aa’ (supplication). It is not about the etiq ...

Islam’s Code of Life: Between Faith and Obedience

Islam means obedience to God. And it is common sense that this obedience cannot be complete ...

The Prophet’s Biography: A Well-Preserved Model for Mankind

We know about the life of our Prophet down to the smallest detail. What an exalted and fasci ...

Wudu’: (Ablution): Its Status and Virtues from Qur’an and Sunnah

What does wudu’ (ablution) mean? What do the Qur’an and Sunnah say about its status? What is ...