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  • Moon Sighting: Between Sharee’ah and Astronomy - I

    Question: What is the Sharee’ah (Islamic legislation) ruling on confirming the beginning of the lunar month by means of astronomical calculations? Answer: Depending on astronomical calculations to confirm the advent of the lunar month implies two grave mistakes. First: It nullifies the Sharee’ah cause on which fasting and breaking.. More

  • Welcome, Month of Goodness!

    Ramadan is around the corner, the great month the Muslims wait for with passion and yearning, with longing and tears -- tears of pleasure at receiving the dearest and most generous of months. It is the month of goodness and mercy, the month of purity and chastity, the month of cleanness and clarity, in which the hearts are cleansed and the souls.. More

  • Ramadan: A Great Opportunity to Achieve Taqwa - III

    … Continued According to some scholars fasting is a secret between the slave and his Lord. Some of them even believed that fasting is a secret whose essence no human being knows. A fasting person may break his fast in seclusion away from people’s eyes, but a true believer fasts out of sincere faith and hoping for the rewards of his Lord... More

  • Ramadan: A Great Opportunity to Achieve Taqwa - II

    … Continued Let us consider the holy month of Ramadan a starting point to pursue piety. Indeed, piety is the optimal clothing [of the soul]. Allah The Exalted Says (what means): • {…the clothing of piety - that is best.} [Quran 7:26] • {Indeed, the pious will be among gardens and rivers,* In a seat of honor near a Sovereign,.. More

  • Ramadan Contest!

    The season of glad tidings, which brings the greatest joy to the hearts of the believers is near. It brings the universal competition that starts with the first night in the month of Ramadan and ends with its last night. Get ready for the greatest opportunity and the most blessed season in the whole year. It is the great competition that was proclaimed.. More

  • In Ramadan: Why Do They Weep And I Do Not?

    One of the causes of prosperity and success in both religious and worldly affairs is to be honest with oneself, and not to seek false excuses until the time death strikes a person by surprise, and he feels regretful at a time when regrets will be of no profit to him. No doubt, the virtue of weeping out of fear of Allah The Almighty is great. It is.. More

  • Anticipating Ramadan

    Ramadan is just around the corner. It will be a great blessing for those of us who live to see it and pick its invaluable fruits. It is a time of Taqwa (piety), of Emaan (faith), and of Ihsaan (excellence). Its time for renovation of faith, for renewal of our pledge to Allah Almighty, for refueling our soul for the onslaughts the next year holds for.. More

  • Keeping Up The Good Work

    In Ramadan, people pray, fast, perform ‘Umrah (the minor pilgrimage), spend in charity, supplicate and recite the Quran, yet the question remains: have any of these good deeds been accepted? Allah The Almighty Says (what means): {…Indeed Allah only accepts from the righteous [who fear Him].}[Quran 3: 27] Fudhaalah Ibn ‘Ubayd, may.. More

  • Crescent of Ramadan and Astronomical Calculations

    A question was received by the Permanent Committee for Scholarly Research and Iftaa’ (religious verdicts), may Allah grant them success, regarding this issue. The members of the committee were ‘Abdullaah ibn Manee‘, ‘Abdullaah ibn Ghudayyaan, under the deputy chairman: ‘Abdur-Razzaaq ‘Afeefy. Following is the text.. More

  • Virtues of Qiyaam

    Qiyaam (voluntary night prayer) is one of the best acts of worship that bring one closer to Allah The Almighty. It is highly recommended at all times of the year, and even more so in the holy month of Ramadan. The texts of the Quran and Sunnah (Prophetic tradition) urge Muslims to perform it and they state its unique status and great reward from Allah.. More

  • Blessings of Qiyaam in the Nights of Ramadan - III

    Quran recited in the three Rak‘ahs (units of prayer) of Witr: 14- It is a Sunnah (Prophetic tradition) to read in the first Rak‘ah of the three: {Exalt the Name of your Lord, The Most High} [Quran 87], the second: {Say, "O disbelievers} [Quran 109], the third: {Say, "He is Allah, [who is] One}[Quran 112] and sometimes add:{Say,.. More

  • Blessings of Qiyaam in the Nights of Ramadan - II

    Number of Rak‘ahs (units of prayer) of Qiyaam (voluntary night prayer): 7- It is performed with eleven Rak‘ahs. We would prefer not to exceed this number for the sake of following the Sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, who did not exceed it till he died. ‘Aa’ishah, may Allah be pleased with.. More

  • Blessings of Qiyaam in the Nights of Ramadan – I

    1- It was narrated that Abu Hurayrah, may Allah be pleased with him, said that the Prophet, sallallaahu ‘alayhi wa sallam, used to encourage performing Qiyaam (voluntary night prayer) in Ramadan without firmly enjoining it. Then, he says: "Whoever performs Qiyaam in (the nights of) Ramadan out of sincere faith and hoping to attain the reward.. More

  • Sighting the Crescent of Ramadan - II

    Muslim countries pay special attention to the month of Ramadan and go out to observe its crescent in order to confirm the sighting. When the sighting is confirmed, Muslims start fasting, the minarets of mosques are lit, the mass media celebrates the occasion and announces the glad tidings of the advent of the month, people congratulate each other, guns.. More

  • Sighting the Crescent of Ramadan - I

    Unlike the crescents of other lunar months, the crescent of Ramadan is given special attention because it is the crescent of the best month in the sight of Allah The Almighty. This month is favored with several virtues; the most important is the revelation of the Quran on the best night of the month. Thus, scholars of Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence) have.. More