
Ramadan: a call for return and reform- I
These days, the Muslims around the globe are rightly busy preparing to welcome the noble month of Ramadan. Of this month, Allah Says (what means): “The month of Ramadan [is that] in which was revealed the Quran, a guidance for the people and clear proofs...

The One Who Guides Others to Good Deeds is Like the One Who Does Them
An example of the splendor of the religion of Islam and its greatness is that it states that whoever guides others to any righteous deed is like the one who does it. This is proved from the Hadeeth (narration) of Abu Mas‘ood Al-Ansaari, may Allah be pleased...

Fasting obligation: a case of divine compassion
Both reason and revelation confirm that Allah, The Most Exalted, does not make obligatory that which does not benefit His servants nor does He prohibit that which is not harmful. Some of us may in fact recognize some of these benefits and detriments on which divine...

The lost Ramadan
Ramadan is always equated in our minds with 29 or 30 days of self- purification, sacrifice and pure devotion to Allah. Even the Muslim among us that would never bother about moon sighting, prayer in the wee hours of the night and reading the whole Quran within...