Category: Acts of Worship
This section gives details on the Islamic acts of worship (salah (prayer), zakah (charity), sawm (fasting), hajj (pilgrimage) and how they are performed.
Prayer: The Islamic Form of Association
As a psychological, social, spiritual, mental and naturally instinctive human attitude, prayer in Islam is an institution of worship. How did Islam solve the mystery of prayer?
Worship in Islam: True Purpose and Motives
What does make a Muslim say their prayers at places where there is no one to ask them to offer them or even to see them? What is it that makes them voluntarily undergo rigors of fasting?
Fasting with the Prophet: Day 1
On the first time of Ramadan it is critically important to sand on the essence of our religion; its true message and teachings, following the Prophet (peace be upon him). It is time to come back to
Fasting with the Prophet: Day 2
What relationship was between our Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and Prophet Abraham (peace be upon him)? What message were they following?
Fasting with the Prophet: Day 3
What does the Prophet’s life say about the essence and true meaning of fasting? Find out here
Surviving Ramadan in the West: My Thirty-Day Journey
I found that Ramadan had more to do with the company I kept during my thirty-day journey and far more to do with the feeding of the soul rather than the feeding of the stomach. What about yours?
Fasting with the Prophet: Day 4
What do circumstances of the Prophet’s life and nature in general say about the essence of life? How is nature talking to us, and what does it say? What does we Learn from that?
Fasting with the Prophet: Day 7
In effort to get the very essence of our religion we try to understanding the Prophet’s life; his Seerah (biography). Learn here about …
Fasting with the Prophet: Day 5
To reflect on life and nature with your heart and mind, to read this nature in the way we deal with time and the world around us, to surrender yourself to God
Ramadan Reminders: Your Daily Gift in Ramadan
Every day of Ramadan, you will be given short lessons in order to implement that each day and continue with these changes beyond Ramadan insha’ Allah….