As Muslim women become more and more aware of their own modesty, they go through many phases. Here is a clip by a Muslim lady who started with “covering her skin” to now covering her face. As Muslim women cover more and more of themselves they grew to appreciate themselves for thier inner and spiritual [...]

This small clip gives an inside perspective to, as to why so many Muslim women choose to cover even their faces. Enjoy…

The hijab is the pride of every practising Muslim lady. However, the media makes this act of modesty as a way of oppersion and subjugation. Islam sees women free when they can see themselves for thier mind and spiritual being. Islam sees the modest covering of women as a way to give a sacred touch [...]

What is jihad?

Why do Muslim Women cover themselves? Is it a sign of oppression? Is it because Muslim men force their women to do so? Does America really need to save Muslim women from wearing the head cover and being modest? Why then are so many women coming into the faith from all over the country?

By Nehal El-Hadi Muslims believe the world is God’s gift to mankind and that there is proof of His existence in every natural object. The finest grain of sand, with its patterned arrangements of atoms, displays the minute detail of His reckoning. From the smallest of viruses to the largest of plants and animals, every [...]

The word Jihad does not mean Holy War. It means struggle or striving. The word for war in the Quran is Harb or Qital. Jihad means serious and sincere struggle on the personal as well as on the social level. It is a struggle to do good and to remove injustice, oppression and evil from [...]

Who speaks for Islam? Gallup poll for Muslim studies, Dalia Magahad gives a nice presentation about Islam and Muslims.

What is the status of women in Islam? Are women really oppressed in Islam? Today people think that women are liberated in the west and that the womens’ liberation movement began in the 20th Century. From the perspective of Islam the women’s liberation movement was given by God to his prophets. The Qur’an and the [...]

1400 Years of being green…. “The Sky We (I, Your God) have raised it, and placed a balance. So, do not disturb this balance, and keep up the standards with justice and do not let the standards be in loss” (Quran) What is Climate Change? …Eat and drink the sustenance God has provided and do [...]

Women as Sex Objects
A new study presented at the recent American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Chicago shows that when men see photos of scantily clad women their brain registers the women as objects to be acted on. Christie Nicholson reports

As a person drives through the highway towards a city, one will notice that while driving through the natural setting one enters into a world that seems alien to the natural world. Tall buildings, trees and nature are the decoration pieces of the city, a lot of noise, pollution, an atmosphere of hustle and bustle, people moving in crowds.

In today’s modern life, values have turned upside down, family life, that was always the very heart of society is attacked just as much as many other handed-down traditions. Yet, neither socialism nor any other “isms” will ever be able to oust what has been implanted into human nature, the need of social ties and [...]

“Inside Mecca”

by Mohamed Ariff, University of Malaya, taken from Asian-Pacific Economic Literature, Vol. 2, No. 2 (September 1988), pp. 46-62 Islamic banking is a new phenomenon that has taken many observers by surprise. The whole banking system has been islamized in both Iran and Pakistan. In addition, there are some thirty Islamic banks in operation in [...]

Why are drugs, intoxicants so, awful, foul and vile in Islam? Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) has described drugs together with all sorts of intoxicants as: 1. The key to all evils. 2. The head of all errors and lapses. 3. The most terrible of major sins. 4. The mother of all atrocities. 5. The mother of [...]

Sheikh Shaker El Sayed and Ismail Royer Introduction The position of Islam on gambling is that it is prohibited, harmful and destructive to society. Gambling is addictive by nature, a practice that takes money from the poor with the perceived, yet illusive promise that they may “win” something without having to work for it. Gambling [...]