Category: New Muslims

Hajj 2013: In Pictures

Hajj 2013: In Pictures

Millions of Muslims converge yearly to Saudi Arabia to perform the annual Hajj, one of the world’s biggest displays of mass religious peaceful devotion. Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have
Pilgrimage: The Journey of Different Religions

Pilgrimage: The Journey of Different Religions

What does hajj in essence mean and what is it meant to instill in man? How do the adherents of various faiths mark and perform it? Do their books say something about Hajj?
Prayer: The Islamic Form of Association

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?
Prayer: The Natural Human Instinct

Prayer: The Natural Human Instinct

How is prayer embodied in our human nature? Just a ritual in most of religions, why couldn’t one be truly doing well without it?
Worship in Islam: True Purpose and Motives

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

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

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

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

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

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?