al-Sulamī was also a grammarian who taught in the Umayyad Mosque of Damascus. His Kitāb al-Jihād (Book of Jihād) published in ...

Londoners may be interested to know that a variety of historical links to the Ottoman Empire are closer to home than they ...

My previous fatwa on the issue of prayer times for ‘Ishā and Fajr during summer is in accordance with the decree of the Islamic Fiqh Council. I also believe that if there is a difference between my ...

For the first time in history, we are witnesses to a live-streamed genocide. If we don’t see the violence immediately, we witness it seconds after the destruction is uploaded. My thoughts, to this ...

At the time when Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s ideas were lighting the torches of freedom in the French Revolution, the ideas of “freedom” themselves were crushing other nations and civilisations in most ...

A summary of the fatwa Shaykh Haitham al-Haddad as well as a number of other scholars and fatwa organisations of the UK and Europe (including the European Council for Fatwa and Research [2]) gave the ...

With the amazing efforts of our Ummah in donating, collecting, and distributing Sadaqah and Zakat, it is important that we never forget the bigger reason behind why we are doing this and what really ...

At the time of this article, the death toll from the two earthquakes – which took place last Monday – has surpassed 41,000. Many are still missing and likely critically injured. The Turkish president ...

Muslims from the four corners of the globe flock throughout the year to the holy city of Makkah as pilgrims, however, during the month of Dhul-Hijjah, the greater pilgrimage known as Hajj consumes ...

Diseases continue to shape the lives of humanity. At this very moment, countless human beings are bedbound by illness while suffering the anguish and despair that accompanies it. The endless waiting ...

Omar was known to have developed a lifestyle of not sleeping more than three hours every night in order to worship Allah (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) at the last third of the night and to then recite Qur’an ...