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  • Specials Edgar Allan Poe – The Missing Link between the Qur’an and Modern Physics?

    Edgar Allan Poe – The Missing Link between the Qur’an and Modern Physics?

    This year’s Nobel Prize for physics was for research on the expanding universe, which emerged as part of the ‘Big Bang’ theory. However, this groundbreaking article argues that in actual fact, the scientific idea of the expanding universe was FIrst proposed in the West in 1848 by the writer Edgar Allan Poe, who found inspiration in the Qur’an. The theory of the ‘Big Bang’ and expanding universe is the modern, generally accepted scientific vision of the birth and development of [...]

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  • Q&A Dear Raakin…

    Dear Raakin…

    If the responsibility of carrying the message of Islam rests upon the youth of today, what contributions can the youth make for the greater good of the Deen (in the long run)? The youth actually take the most vital role in the community, as they will eventually develop to become the leaders of society. Aside from the altruistic aim of helping the wider community, carrying the message from a young age will actually benefit themselves by preparing them for the [...]

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  • Ramadan Specials In My Heart….Always!

    In My Heart….Always!

    How can Ramadan change your heart? How can the Month of the Qur’an bring you closer to understanding the Noble Book of Allah? Some reflections on the significance of the revelation, particularly in the most blessed of all months. All and absolute praise is due only unto Allah (swt), who blessed us with the Qur’an: The Sacred, Noble Book, of which its beautiful verses are like the thread from which the substance of our souls are weaved. Snapshots from Life [...]

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  • Specials Ramadan: Month of Worship

    Ramadan: Month of Worship

    The month of Ramadan is one filled with spiritual benefits and nourishment, none so great as that gained by the obligation of fasting. What can we understand about the Divine wisdom of the fast in this month, and how can our souls benefit from it?  Islam is the religion that Allah ﷻ, All-Wise, accepted for His servants and the system that He, Most Merciful, chose for them. Therefore, strict observation of the rules and enjoinments of this system and devoted [...]

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  • Ramadan Mind Over Matter…Heart Over Hunger

    Mind Over Matter…Heart Over Hunger

    Fasting from first dawn to sunset every day for a month can seem a tall order, and to non-Muslims is sometimes viewed as a kind of strange torture. Yet Ramadan should be – and is – felt as a time of great joy and happiness, as physical desires are tamed by spiritual will power. Here, The Invitation explains how a successful fast is one in which a positive and determined mind is in the driving seat. Ramadan has arrived once again. With [...]

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  • Ramadan Fast to Spiritually Grow!

    Fast to Spiritually Grow!

    O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you as it was prescribed to those before you, so that you may develop taqwa (awareness of God) (al-Baqarah, 183) Fasting during the month of Ramadan is a difficult exercise. Amongst all the Islamic forms of worship it is the one that most tests man’s endurance and ability to control his appetites. To go without food, drink or sexual pleasure for 10-15 hours may appear as a self-torture to the outsider, but [...]

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  • Community Dr Musharraf Hussain Reflections Specials Understanding How Satan Misleads People

    Understanding How Satan Misleads People

    ﴾ The evil men and jinn suggest alluring words to one another to deceive…leave them to their inventions. So that the hearts of those who do not believe in the hereafter may incline towards their deceit, be pleased with it, and so perpetrate whatever they perpetrate. ﴿ (al-Anam, 112-13) Satan is a jinn who was assigned the role of teaching Angels, he is made of fire (a form of energy) and God has given him certain capabilities and devices that [...]

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  • Reflections Specials Balancing the Body and Soul

    Balancing the Body and Soul

    “Contemplate, if you will, that your consciousness were to be suddenly cut off. Would ‘you’ not be dead, even if it was possible for your body to continue to live, to move and to talk? This is because your body is not ‘you’, well at least not the most important and essential part.” The human being is an amazing creature, an unequalled creation. From the viewpoint of the apparent world – and thereby visible to all – there is clearly [...]

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  • Sirah The Year of Grief

    The Year of Grief

    The Tenth Year of Prophecy is known in the Sirah as ‘The Year of Grief’ as within it both the Prophet’s ﷺ beloved uncle, Abu Talib, and wife, Khadijah, died. Later on in the same year, the Prophet ﷺ met fierce persecution in the town of Ta’if, while trying to preach the message of Islam, an experience he was to recall as one of the most difficult of his life. Just before the gruelling experiences of the tenth year of [...]

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  • Sirah Specials Stories Islam – Removing the Misconceptions: Muhammad Beheaded 700 Jews (Misconception 3)

    Islam – Removing the Misconceptions: Muhammad Beheaded 700 Jews (Misconception 3)

    Misconception 3: Muhammad Beheaded 700 Jews Removing the Misconceptions Even reading this title should produce shock and incredulity in the mind of a Muslim or non- Muslim reader alike. However, this statement and others like it are regularly bandied about by anti-Islamic groups in order to attack the Prophet ﷺ and need to be countered by rigorous and historically grounded scholarship. Read on for the truth… The first thing that needs to be said in response to this allegation is [...]

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