• Trust in God
    • Mohammed, the great Prophet, once said: If you put your whole trust in God, as you ought, He most certainly ...
    • Religion is easy
    • The Prophet (pbuh) said: Facilitate things to people (concerning religious matters), and do not make ...
    • Opportunities of life
    • Take advantage of five opportunities before five other things: Your youth before your senescence...
    • The Judgement
    • Judge not, that you may not be judged. For with what judgment you judge, you shall be judged; and with ...
    • The grammarian and the boatman
    • man A GRAMMARIAN once embarked in a boat. Turning to the boatman with a self-satisfied air he asked him: ‘Have you ever studied grammar?’ ‘No,’ replied the boatman. ‘Then half your life has gone to waste,’ the gra...
    • The jackal that pretended to be a peacock
    • ock A JACKAL, once got into a dyeing-vat and there tarried for a space. Then he got out again, and his skin was stained with the dye. 'See, I have become the Peacock of Heaven's Heights!' he cried. Indeed, his d...
    • The man who said:" It is I"
    • It is I" A CERTAIN man once came and knocked on the door of a friend. "Who are you, faithful one?" his friend asked. "I," he answered. "'Go away", the friend said. "It i...
    • The Elephant in the dark
    • dark, on the reconciliation of contrarieties SOME Hindus had brought an elephant for exhibition and placed it in a dark house. Crowds of people were going into that dark place to see the beat. Finding that ocular...
    • The man who stole a snake
    • nake  and the answer to prayer A THIEF once stole a snake from a snake-catcher, and in his folly accounted it a rich prize. The snake-catcher escaped from the bite of the snake; the man who had stolen his ...
    • How an Ox Became Mayor
    • yor Netherlands Once upon a time there was a peasant who had a great deal of money but very little understanding. He was just plain stupid. He had no children, but he did have a wife, an ox, and a donkey. This peasant...
    • The Tiger in the Trap
    • ap Korean Folktales Notes: In the following story, a trapped tiger is saved by a man but ungratefully tries to kill him, because, the tiger reasons, though it was saved by him, the entrapment was made by human beings in ...
    • Words of wisdom from the Hodja
    • dja Once long ago, the Hodja stood in his pulpit and looked out at his congregation. They were filing slowly into the mosque, ready for prayer and wisdom. The Hodja shook his head in wonder as he watched them. He...
    • The Pen and the Inkstand
    • nd By: Hans Christian Andersen (1860) In a poet’s room, where his inkstand stood on the table, the remark was once made, “It is wonderful what can be brought out of an inkstand. What will come next? It is indeed w...
    • THE THEFT OF FIRE
    • IRE At one time the people had found fire, and were going to use it; but Thunder wanted to take it away from them, as he desired to be the only one who should have fire. He thought that if he could do this, he woul...
    • Why the turtle has no tail
    • IL (Australian legends) The Australian aborigines believed that the Milky Way was a "pukkan" or track, along which many spirits of departed blacks traveled to heaven, and that the dark place that we call Magellan's...
    • Prayer for a tyrant
    • ant A dervish, whose prayers had a ready acceptance with God, made his appearance at Baghdad. Hajjaj Yusuf (a great tyrant) sent for him and said: "Put up a good prayer for me." He prayed, "O God! ...
    • The origin of Death
    • EATH THE Moon, it is said, sent once an Insect to Men, saying, "Go thou to Men, and tell them, 'As I die, and dying live, so ye shall also die, and dying live.'" The Insect started with the message, but...
    • THE MAN BORN BLIND
    • IND THERE was a man born blind, and he said: "I do not believe in the world of light and appearance. There are no colors, bright or somber. There is no sun, no moon, and no stars. No one has witnessed these ...
    • The blind beggar,
    • >The blind beggar, on the power of compassion THERE was once a blind man who all the time cried, ‘Have pity! I am doubly blind, people of this passing time. Attend therefore, and show me double compassion, for I h...
    • The Old man and the doctor, on inveterate wickedness
    • ess AN old man said to a doctor, 'My brain I giving me hell.' The doctor said, 'That infirmity of brain comes from old age.' The old man said, 'I see dark spot in front of my eyes.' The doctor said, 'That comes of old age, a...
    • Patience and Practice
    • ctice There was a rope dancer who would walk on the rope with eyes blindfolded, with wooden clogs on his feet, a water jug on his head and holding four things in his hands. He would walk forward on the rope making creaking ...
    • Our Philosophy
    • >1-Our Philosophy by: Muhammad Baqir as-Sadr Translation, Introduction and Notes By: Shams C. Inati http://al-islam.org/philosophy/ 2-The Revealer, The Messenger, The Message r="#de893d"> by: Mohammad Baqir as-Sadr T...
    • AS-SAHIFA AL-KAMILAH AL-SAJJADIYYA
    • KAMILAH AL-SAJJADIYYA The Psalms of Islam http://www.al-islam.org/sahifa 2-THE BIBLE, THE QUR'AN AND SCIENCE Maurice Bucaille http://www.quranic-studies.com/books/science/index.html 3- Discourses of Rumi http...
    • The Quest of the Historical Jesus
    • sus by: Albert Schweitzer Translated by W. Montgomery from the First German Edition "Von Reimarus zu Wrede," 1906. http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/schweitzer/ 2-The Life of Muhammad (Allah's peace and bles...
    • Temporary Marriage in Islamic Law
    • ary Marriage in Islamic Law Sachiko Murata http://www.al-islam.org/al-serat/muta/ n xstyle="font-family: tahoma">2- The Ruba'yat  Omar Khayyam trans. Edward Fitzgerald. http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/omark...
    • Aristotle on the Art of Poetry
    • oetry by: Aristotle Translated by: Ingram Bywater contrib. by Gilbert Murray http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext04/poeti10.txt #de893d">2- Hajj (The Pilgrimage) By: Ali Shariati Translated by:Ali A....
    • Meister Eckharts Sermons
    • "font-family: tahoma">1-Meister Eckhart's Sermons First time translated into English by Claud Field By:Johannes Eckhart http://www.ccel.org/ccel/eckhart/sermons.all.html 2- Freedom of the Will Jonathan Edwards h...
    • Mishkât Al-Anwar
    • Anwar ("THE NICHE FOR LIGHTS") By: AL-GHAZZALI [1058-1111 C.E.] Translation and Introduction by William Henry Temple GAIRDNER [b. 1873, d. 1928] First published as Monograph Vol. XIX by the Royal Asiatic Societ...
    • 4 May
    • ugh Choice for Muslim Americans New Yrok It was the 1980s, and Maher Hatout needed money for the Muslim community in Los Angeles. Saudi Arabia, Libya and other foreign governments were offering millions of dollar...
    • 3 May
    • eligious council presents house key to needy family The Brunei Islamic Religious Council made another initiative to provide assistance to the poor and the needy in the country when it presented a house key to Day...
    • 9 March
    • ly Qur’an Contest held in Lebanon Jeddah, March 5 (IINA) The Jeddah-based Holy Qur’an Memorization Organization, an offshoot of the Makkah-based Muslim World League (MWL) has held its fifth Holy Qur’an Contest in...
    • 8 March
    • Commission for “European-Islamic Dialogue" Berlin, March 7(IINA) Dr. Gunter Mollack, the Commissioner for “European-Islamic Dialogue,” at the German Foreign Ministry, has said that ignorance about Islam in ...
    • 5 March
    • jj: Over a million have left for home Makkah,March 4(IINA) Over a million pilgrims have already left the holy land, after completing their Haj rituals, the Director of Passports Department, Brig. Abdul Aziz Sajin...
    • 4 March
    • MY holds educational camp in Russia Jeddah March 3 (IINA) The world Assembly of Muslim Youth has recently wound up an educational youth camp for the secondary school students in Russia, which was attended by 50 p...
    • 3 March
    • en: Symposium of Islamic scholars begins Seiyun, March 2 (IINA) A four-day international symposium that has brought together Islamic scholars has began at the Dar-al-Mustafa, in the city of Tarim, Hadhramout Regi...
    • 2 March
    • onesia: Islamic course for women Jakarta, March 1 2003(IINA) The World Assembly of Muslim youth (WAMY) has recently held a month-long Islamic training course for a group of 104 women in theWest Java town of D...
    • 18 March
    • w will host a seminar on problems of Islam in Russia March 14 On March 26thMoscow is to host a session on “Islam as the cultural and political factor of transformation in modern Russia”. It is the third session he...
    • 16 March
    • m-e-Gharibaan marked in Iran HolyCity of MASH’HAD, Iran: Special mourning gatherings were arranged Friday throughout Iran like other parts of the world on Sham-e-Gharibaan commemorating the great inflictions of A...
    • 15 March
    • ning gatherings continue in France PARIS, France: Majalis-e-Aza and matam are continue in Paris, France marking the tragic event of Karbala which commemoration every year serves to remind us of the matchless sacr...
    • 12 March
    • Hussaini mourning procession in Ad-Daraz Bahrain, March 11 (Jafariya News) AD-DARAZ, Bahrain: A grand mourning procession to pay rich homage to the Martyrs of Karbala was taken out in Ad-Daraz,Bahrain. Hundreds of...
    • 11 March
    • land holding some ancient Islamic manuscripts Dublin, March 10 (IINA) In the Irish Republic’s capital of Dublin there are a number of ancient Islamic manuscripts that are housed at the Chester Beatty Library, one...
    • 10 March
    • ece: First Islamic activity of its kind held Athens, March 9 (IINA) For the first time ever, Muslims inGreece have initiated a Da’awa caravan that visited several towns and villages, and also organized a Holy Qur...
    • 25 June
    • KISTAN: AUTHORITIES BLOCK ACCESS TO "UNDESIRABLE" ISLAMIC SITE Last week several news sites focusing onCentral Asia including Norway-based Forum18 news service and RFE/RL reported that Uzbek National Security S...
    • 24 June
    • he first officially supported Muslim children camp in Mordovia  The Clerical Department of the Muslims of Mordovia together with the Mordovian republican youth public organization “Islamic youth center” organized th...