• Imam Ali's beseech to Allah
    • Zirar bin Zamra Zibabi, known as Zirar Suda'i, was a companion of Imam Ali. When, after the martyrdom of Imam Ali, he went to Damascus, Muawiya called him and asked him to say something about Imam Ali. Zirar, knowi...
    • Native American proverbs (1)
    • (1) It's impossible to awaken a man who is pretending to be asleep. Navajo It is less of a problem to be poor, than to be dishonest. Anishinabe Those who have one foot in the canoe, and one foot in the boat, are goi...
    • World Qods Day
    • Cutting ties with the Zionist regime is a must for the Islamic world.The ideas of Qods day and the rallies held to celebrate it were proposed by the late Imam Khomeini , the...
    • Treachery's Necklace
    • Ibn Abi Rafe' has narrated thus: I was the administrator of the public treasury during the period of the caliphate of Ali and was also his scribe. The property received from Basra for the public treasury included a pe...
    • Zayed University
    • ity http://www.zu.ac.ae/ Introduction ZayedUniversity was established in 1998 by the federal government of the United Arab Emirates to educate U.A.E. National women. It has campuses inAbu Dhabi and Dubai led by a si...
    • Imam Ali s Letter to Malik Ashtar
    • This script reads: "Ali Ibn Abi Talib, radiya' llah Ta'aala anhu wa-Karrama wajhahu." (Ali Bin Abi Talib, may God Almighty be pleased with him and honor him.) The script is Tawqi', structured into the shap...
    • Level of faith
    • ith Hadith of the Week "Your faith should be at such a level that you should prefer truth to falsehood even though it may cause you loss and falsehood may bring you gained". Imam Ali (PBUH) Also see: h...
    • Understanding the Month of Glory
    • lory Lessons on the Month of Ramazan AN INVITATION http://al-islam.org/gallery/kids/Books/lessons/1.gif VERSES FROM THE HOLY QUR'AN ON RAMADHAN http://al-islam.org/gallery/kids/Books/lessons/2.gif AHADIT...
    • Muhammad and the Holy Quran
    • ran Muslims believe that during the month of Ramadan, the Holy Quran "was sent down from heaven, a guidance unto men, a declaration of direction, and a means of Salvation" One day Muhammad was sitting alon...
    • Khadija
    • ija Wife of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) (565 A.D. - 623 A.D.)   Khadija Kubra daughter of Khuwaylid belonged to the clan of Banu Hashim of the tribe of Banu Asad. She was a distant cousin of her husband the Me...
    • World Mental Health Day
    • Day 10 October World Mental Health Day was observed for the first time on 10 October 1992. It was started as an annual activity of the World Federation for Mental Health by the then Deputy Secretary General Richar...
    • Al- alaq 1-5
    • 1-5 Verse of the Week Proclaim (or read)! In the Name of your Lord and Cherisher who created (everything). (He) created man of a (mere) clot of congealed blood. Proclaim! And your Lord is the Most Bountiful Who taught...
    • The Poetry of Hafez
    • Poems on this page are translated by both Thomas Rain Crowe, from his book, Drunk on the Wine of the Beloved and selections from Daniel Ladinskys translations.
    • International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
    • ion 13 October By resolution 44/236 (22 December 1989), the General Assembly designated the second Wednesday of October International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction. The International Day was to be observed ann...
    • Hafez, a Persian Mystic Poet
    • Khwajah Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz)was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310-1337 in Shiraz , Persia (Iran), son of a certain Baha-ud-Din. Hafez is ...
    • Samarqand and Bokara
    • ara There is a story that the invader Timur angrily summoned Hafez and demanded if he was the poet who would exchange two of Timur’s great cities, Samarqand and Bokara, for the mole on his mistress’s cheek. “Yes, sir...
    • The Cow (Baqarah): 185
    • 185 Verse of the Week "Ramadan is the month during which the Quran was revealed, providing guidance for the people, clear teachings, and the statute book. Those of you who witness this month shall fast there...
    • Types of Worshipping
    • ing Hadith of the Week There are people who worship Allah to gain His Favors, this is the worship of traders; while there are some who worship Him to keep themselves free from His Wrath, this is the worship of slaves;...
    • World Post Day
    • Day 9 October World Post Day is celebrated each year on 9 October, the anniversary of the establishment of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in 1874 in the Swiss Capital, Bern. It was declared World Post Day by the UPU...
    • Butterflies
    • ies Roger Dean Kiser There was a time in my life when beauty meant something special to me. I guess that would have been when I was about six or seven years old, just several weeks or maybe a month before the orph...
    • Al-Quds University
    • ity http://www.alquds.edu/ Jerusalem (Al-Quds) has played a central educational role throughout its history. In particular, its Muslim schools and faculties, built around the Noble Sanctuary and within the Old Cit...
    • Romanian proverbs (4)
    • (4) Mai bine un mãgar care te poartã decât un cal care te trânteste. Means: Better ride on an ass that carries me than a horse that throws me. Moartea unora este viata altora. Means: One man's ...
    • Imam Khomeini's Migration from Iraq to Paris
    • 13 Mehr 1357 / 5 Oct. 1978 Iranian Civil Strife Coming of the Revolution Beginning in early 1977, the shah took a number of steps to meet both domestic and foreign criticism ofIran's human rights record. He released pol...
    • Making Space:
    • ce:  The Development of Spatial Representation and Reasoning (Learning, Development, and Conceptual Change) by Nora S. Newcombe, Janellen Huttenlocher Paperback: 276 pages Publisher: The MIT Press; R...
    • King M
    • g M Crispin Oduobuk A humorous African parable Hey friend, I tell you a story. A good story. With a moral in it. I tell you about a king. I tell you about King Mmefiokmma. See, King M, he living long time ago wi...
    • Muhammad 'Abduh
    • (1849 in the Nile Delta area - July 11, 1905 near Alexandria) The Egyptian religious scholar, jurist, and liberal reformer, Muhammad `Abduh led a late 19th-century movement in Egypt and other Muslim countries to “mod...
    • The Pilgrimage (Al-Haj): 72
    • 72 Verse of the Week And when Our clear communications are recited to them, you will find denial on the faces of those who disbelive They almost spring upon those who recite to them Our Communications Say: Shall I i...
    • AT-TIN (The Figtree)
    • ree) Name The Surah has been so named after the very First wordat-tin. Period of Revelation According to Qatadah, this Surah is Madani. Two different views have been reported from Ibn Abbas: first that it is a Makki Surah, ...
    • Margaret Mead
    • Gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life...
    • Dictionary of Islamic Philosophical Terms
    • rms (8)  Tafṣil al-murakkab: The fallacy of division Taqabul: The relation of opposition between two concepts or states which cannot be asserted of a thing or an individual at the same time and in the same ...
    • Salt (/Salh: Prayer; in Persian: Namaz)
    • az) The word "salat" is derived from Syriac, or from Aramaic, where the root si' means to bow or bend, the Arabic verb salla, to perform the salat, is derived from the noun. The salat, one of the pillars of Isla...
    • World Space Week
    • eek 4-10 October It is an international celebration of science and technology, and their contribution to the betterment of the human condition. The United Nations General Assembly declared in 1999 that World Space We...
    • The Real Oliver Twist
    • ist John Waller UK Publication October 2005 ISBN 1-84046-542-5 From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors’ jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert B...
    • State and Society in an Islamic System:
    • em: A Balanced, Reciprocal and Integrated Relationship Mohammad Abdul­‑Jabbar (1) It is a prime objective of Islam to establish a healthy and constructive relationship between the state (its government and authori...
    • An old man's advice
    • One day, in the pride of youth, I had traveled hard and arrived perfectly exhausted in the evening at the foot of an acclivity. A weak old man, who had likewise been following the caravan, came and asked me why I was sl...
    • Romanian proverbs (3)
    • (3) Faptele grãiesc mai apãsat decât vorbele. Means: Actions speak louder than words. Deeds, not words. Unde vezi mãtãnii multe, departe, sã nu te muste. Means: Beads about the neck...
    • America in Vietnam
    • nam Dr. John Guilmartin Preface -- The Fifteen-Year War Chapter One -- Background to Armegeddon Chapter Two -- The French War Chapter Three -- The Advisory Phase Chapter Four - -President K...
    • International Institute for the Study of Islam
    • am in the Modern World (ISIM) http://www.isim.nl TheInternational Institute for the Study of Islam in the Modern World (ISIM) was founded by the University of Amsterdam, Leiden University, and Utrecht University in ...
    • Alexandria University
    • ity http://www.alex.edu.eg/ Historical Background In 1938, the nucleus of the Alexandria University had its beginning in the form of two satellite faculties of Fouad 1 University. These were the faculties of ...
    • World Tourism Day
    • Day 27 September World Tourism Day (WTD) is celebrated worldwide every 27th September.The mission of World Tourism Day is to foster awareness among the international community of the importance of tourism and its socia...
    • Dargahs: Abodes of the Saints
    • nts edited by Mumtaz Currim and George Michell Photographs by Karoki Lewis. Mumbai, Marg Pub., 2004, 152 p., photographs, ISBN 81-85026-65-3. "The Dargahs of India are testaments to the widespread belief in th...
    • Ayatollah Shirazi
    • azi (Feb 25, 1892 – September 29, 1984) Ayatollah Sayyed Abdullah Shirazi was a Grand Ayatollah of Shi'a Islam. He is not to be confused with Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi of the Tobacco movement, and Ayatollah M...
    • Woman Half-the-Man?
    • an? Crisis of Male Epistemology in Islamic Jurisprudence Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina University of Virginia Introduction Islamic sacred law, the Shari'a, has been regarded by Muslims as a perfect, divinely ordained religiou...
    • First Day of School
    • ool (A true story) On the way home from the first day of school, the father asked his son, "What did you do at school today?" The little boy shrugged his shoulders and said, "Nothing". Hoping to d...
    • Al-'ALAQ (The Clot)
    • ot) Name The Surah is so entitled after the word `alaq in the second verse. Period of Revelation This Surah has two parts: the first part consists of vv. 1-5, and the second of vv. 6-19. About the first part a great majorit...