The POWER of Fasting

The compulsory fast of the (lunar) month Ramadan was given to mankind in a very special context that is linked to power, and we attempt in this brief essay to explain that link.

After the Israelite people rejected Jesus, the son of Mary, as a Prophet of Allah Most High, and as the true Messiah, they conspired to have him put to death by crucifixion.

That was the most evil deed that they had ever committed in defiance of Allah Most High.

His divine response was to expel them from the Holy Land and to ban their return to that Holy Land until the advent of the Gog and Magog world-order (which is the one that now rules the world). That Gog and Magog world-order would not only make possible their return to reclaim the Holy Land as their own, but would then take on a ride on the ‘Beast of the Earth’ which would culminate with their greatest punishment ever. It is that dramatic history that is now unfolding before the eyes of the world.

The Prohibition of Ribah

The Prohibition of Ribah in the Quraan and Sunnah, a seminar by Maulana Imran N. Hosein, Held in 2002 in Cape Town, South Africa. If you having problems downloading, try to right-click on the link,  then select “Save (link) As…” to save it. Session 2 | Session 2 Q&A | Session 3 (incl Q&A) | Session 4 (incl Q&A) Unfortunately …

Jerusalem in the Quran

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Jerusalem in the Qur’an is a great book that thrilled and delighted me in a number of ways. I am surprised that such a meticulously documented book had to wait for such a long time before seeing the light. It is now more than half a century since the Zionists began their appalling oppression and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people whose only offense is that they happened to live in a country considered by the Jews to be their promised Holy Land.

The Zionists have continuously referred to distorted scriptures from the Torah and other Biblical material to justify their atrocious behavior and to motivate the Jews to establish a State of Israel that extends from the Nile to the Euphrates with Jerusalem as its capital.

A Muslim View of Venezuela’s Oil Diplomacy the US dollar and the Free Market

It would be a mistake if the Government of Trinidad & Tobago were to respond to Venezuela’s ‘Petrocaribe’ oil initiative from a limited commercial perspective, and fail to measure the long-term moral, political and security costs to this country if we were to stay out of the regional oil alliance. As we study an alliance for subsidized oil that has …

TERRI SCHIAVO ? RIGHT OR WRONG

The major religions of the world ― Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Sikhism and Buddhism ― in a seminar in Cambridge in 1990, affirmed their “belief in the innate love for eternal values such as Truth, Justice, Righteousness, Love, compassion and care towards all creation, which the spiritual self of each individual is innately endowed with by God.”
Thus they all negate the false concept that man’s values are man-made and subject to change as society changes.

REFLECTIONS ON ?EVIDENCE?

Justice demands that individuals and groups in a society be given their due rights. And God’s final revelation to mankind, the Holy Qur’an, makes the establishment of justice an unconditional, absolute, and universally binding imperative. For the pursuit of justice to be seriously undertaken at both the individual and collective levels, it is a sine qua non that we be able to distinguish truth from falsehood and facts from opinions, biases and allegations. What guidelines has the Ever-Bountiful Creator given to help us in this essential task? These definitely need to be carefully examined and followed.

THE RETURN OF THE ISLAMIC KHILAFAT

A strange ‘obsession’ with Islam explains the Euro-world order’s relentless war on Islam and the ‘biting’ questions that continue to be posed concerning the continuing failure to establish constitutional democracy in the Muslim world. We believe that an explanation of that strange ‘obsession’ is located in Islam’s view of the End of History, and, in particular, in the prophecies in …

THE MARRIAGE OF A MUSLIM PRINCESS

She was as beautiful as a Princess from Sudan, this Muslim girl of African origin from Deigo Martin who was married at the San Fernando Jama Masjid last Friday to the distinguished Afro-Surinamese Islamic scholar and my beloved brother, Shaikh Ali Mustafa Seinpaal. In fact she had an African name which meant ‘queen”. Her father had passed away, and so …

Islam and the Seasons of our lives

{Quran 36:39}“And the moon,
We have measured for her
Mansions (to traverse)
‘Til she returns
Like the old (and withered) branch
Of a date palm.”
(Qur’an, Yaseen, 36:39)“Do not abuse Time
For verily I (Allah),
 I am Time.”

How we measure and respond to the passage of time in our lives is a matter of truly great import for it reflects our personality and can determine our happiness!

Betty Shabbazz ? What a Muslim woman!

Even as we remember Malcolm X forty years later, we ought also to remember and honor his beloved wife, Dr. Betty Shabbazz. I met her twice.  The second time was when she was lying in her coffin beside Malcolm’s grave, and her six daughters had honored me by asking me to recite from the Qur’an and to offer a prayer …