The Importance of observing your prayers with sincerity and love
Prayers are the places where you are most near to Allah swt to ask Him what you need.
Featured Articles on Worship (Ibadaat)
Kissing the Thumbs, etc. During The Adhan?
I hope that you are well and in good health with the grace of Allah Ta`ala. I spoke to you in the Mosque yesterday after your kutba, my name is [xyz].I would like to know whether kissing the thumbs and putting them on your eyes on hearing the Prophet Muhammad (blessing and peace of Allah be upon him and his family) in the azan has any basis according to Shafi mazhab? I have read that it is not … [Read More...]
Salat al-Janaza `ala al-Gha’ibin
(FUNERAL PRAYER IN ABSENTIA) Is it permissible or not to perform the funeral prayer for all absent Muslims indiscriminately? What about Albani's statement: “It [funeral prayer over every Muslim in absentia] is among the innovations in religion of which none doubts among those who know the Sunna of the Prophet e and the school (madhhab) of the Salaf”?[1] What is the position of the … [Read More...]
Benefits of the Night of mid-Sha`bān
فضائل ليلة النصف من شعبان كتب الأمام الغزالي: وليلة النصف من شعبان - ففيها مائة ركعة يقرا في كل ركعة بعد الفاتحة سورة الاخلاص عشر مرات كانوا لا يتركونها كما اوردناه في صلاة التطوع - وليلة عرفة . ( إحياء علوم الدين ) Imam al-Ghazali wrote in his Ihyā, The Night of mid-Sha`bān, in it [pray] 100 rakats, reciting in each raka`t after al-Fātiha, Surat al-Ikhlās 10 times; they never left it, as … [Read More...]
Dubai Fatwa: Should We Celebrate Mawlid – the Prophet’s (s) Birthday?
Office of Religious Endowments and Islamic Affairs, Dubai Administration of Ifta' and Research Question: Should We Celebrate Mawlid - the Prophet's (s) Birthday? Yes we should celebrate it every year and every month and every week and every hour and every moment! Nowadays, we find publications filled with lies and deception which mislead many Muslims into thinking negatively about the … [Read More...]
The Lives of Sahaba
Sayyidina Abu Bakr as-Siddiq
Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, `Atiq ibn Abi Quhafa, Shaykh al-Islam, `Abd Allah ibn `Uthman ibn `Amir al-Qurashi al-Taymi (d. 13), the Prophet’s intimate friend after Allah, exclusive companion at the Prophet’s Basin (hawd) and in the Cave, greatest supporter, closest confidant, first spiritual inheritor, first of the men who believed in him and the only one […]
Sayyidina ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab
`Umar ibn al-Khattab ibn Nufayl ibn `Abd al-`Uzza ibn Rayyah, Shaykh al-Islam, Amir al-Mu’minin, Abu Hafs al-Qurashi al-`Adawi al-Faruq (d. 23). Among the Companions who narrated from him: `Ali, Ibn Mas`ud, Ibn `Abbas, Abu Hurayra, and especially his son Ibn `Umar upon whose narrations Malik relied in his Muwatta’. He was described as fair-skinned with some reddishness, tall […]
