We Borrowed This World From Our Children

We are born into an established world, but we enter a relationship with our natural environment with an awareness produced by social life. We approach our natural environment with a style of behavior and thought that we got from our family and close social circle since our childhood. Consequently, we do not see many things not seen or avoided by our social circle. In spite of there being many things in our environment that we need to pay...

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Importance of Sunnah & Hadiths

Rahil Ahmed Khan Summary There are two main fundamental sources of knowledge in Islam – The Qur’an and the Hadeeth. Often people associate Islam with teachings and commandments of only Qur’an; this is true for both Muslims and non-Muslims. However this attitude of ignoring the Hadeeth or Sunnah has lead to many misunderstandings about the already misunderstood way of life, Islam. Best example being that of the perception of Islam promoting hatred. Such doubts and baseless allegations arise mostly due to partial study of Islamic literature. The...

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Justice in Islam

The Meaning of Justice In the Islamic worldview, justice denotes placing things in their rightful place.  It also means giving others equal treatment.  In Islam, justice is also a moral virtue and an attribute of human personality, as it is in the Western tradition.  Justice is close to equality in the sense that it creates a state of equilibrium in the distribution of rights and duties, but they are not identical.  Sometimes, justice...

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The Family in Islam: Parenting

Parenting One of the reasons that the Islamic family works is because of its clearly defined structure, where each member of the household knows his or her role.  The Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, said: “Each of you is a shepherd, and all of you are responsible for your flocks.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhari, Saheeh Muslim) The father is the shepherd over his family, protecting them, providing for them, and striving...

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Economic System of Islam

Islam views life as a compact whole and does not divide it into many separate and conflicting parts. The economic aspect is one of the most important parts of our life, while not being the whole of it. The Islamic system is balanced and places everything in its right place. Islam has given detailed regulations for the conduct of our economic life which concerns mainly the earning and use of wealth. Man needs bread to live but he does not live for bread alone. This means that earning and spending money is essential for...

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An introduction to the Islamic Economic System

The following is a summary of some key aspects of the Islamic Economic system Islam recognised that humans will undertake a number of actions to survive. These range from the buying of food, taking ownership of property, selling goods, investment, agriculture, taking loans, exchanging currency, taking up employment and giving work, setting up a company, importing and exporting abroad, disposing of assets etc. In this regard, Islam made a distinction...

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Islam and Farrakhanism

Before we delve into how the group Nation of Islam are not of mainstream Islam, a brief history of how the group even formed. The group’s original founder, W. Fard, a Syrian rug merchant of the sort came and found Elijah Poole. Together they founded a organization to help the Blacks. They combined the concept of Black Nationalism, their own ideas as well as Islam to furnish this organization called Nation of Islam. Later when W.D Fard mysteriously disappeared, Elijah Poole(now called himself Elijah Mohammed) became leader of the organization....

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A Successful Arranged Marriage

How we met I was raised to have a very humble nature, so I trusted my parents. All the decisions they made for me were in the interest of my future and my happiness. Therefore I let them decide, and they arranged my marriage. My husband came once to see me, but I did not notice him. I only saw him on our wedding day; I first spoke to him on our wedding night.How I Did It: I remember when I first talked to him, I told him that I wear hijab. He was a little upset and said, 'Your parents didn't mention it.' So I told him, "Now is the time...

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The Final Jihad

Muslim brothers and sisters, in the name of Allah you are called to jihad. This statement marks the beginning of worldwide Islamic jihad. To make so serious a call upon the Muslim ummah (society) there must indeed be dire circumstances. It is only right that the basis for this call to jihad be clearly explained. Right now the battle with shaitan (Satan) is being lost. In modern terms this is the battle against Western secular materialism. You must...

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Islamic Economics

Islam uniquely considers distribution as the economic problem, and Muslims do not share the obsession of capitalists and communists with production. Because Islam differentiates between the basic needs and luxuries, there exists no concept of relative scarcity of resources in Islam. The resources available on earth are sufficient to secure the basic needs (food, clothing, and shelter) of fifty billion human beings. Such a misunderstanding has concealed...

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