Archive for December, 2017

Britain’s First Muslim Converts – Documentary

Britain’s First Muslim Converts – Documentary

BBC Documentary ‘Great British Islam’ this documentary tells the little-known story of three Victorian gentlemen – William Quilliam, Baron Headley and Marmaduke Pickthall – who embraced Islam at a time when to be a Muslim was to be seen to be a traitor to your country. Through personal journeys of still surviving relatives, the programme looks at their achievements and[Read More…]

December 18, 2017 0 comments History & Culture
Return to Wisdom in Islam (Hamza Yusuf)

Return to Wisdom in Islam (Hamza Yusuf)

The lecture of Hamza Yusuf about proper understanding of Islam.

December 17, 2017 0 comments Faith
The Ring of the Dove: Ibn Hazm’s impact on European culture

The Ring of the Dove: Ibn Hazm’s impact on European culture

M. R. Menocal, a scholar on medieval history and culture, says: “Many Spaniards and many Hispanists, following their lead, have wished to view the eight hundred years of Islamic presence as a negative period in their history, a moment of alien intrusion that, if it cannot be erased, can at least be made to disappear in our historiographical fictions.”1 It[Read More…]

December 15, 2017 0 comments History & Culture
The foundations of Islam

The foundations of Islam

An inspiring talk by Dr Umar Faruq Abd-Allah.   In Mecca, the Prophet Muhammad taught us the foundations of our faith.   These essential messages are what we should prioritize above all else.

December 14, 2017 0 comments Faith
On “white” and “colored”

On “white” and “colored”

Dialectics of white racism and “anti white racism” has one common thesis that`s shared by both sides. More exactly – racist views, that “white” should be racially “clean”, and everything, that isn`t “clean”, is considered to be “colored”.   As it is known, racial segregation laws in the USA and apartheid in South Africa admitted a so-called “one-drop rule”. This[Read More…]

December 13, 2017 0 comments Our vision
Russian vodka: myth and reality

Russian vodka: myth and reality

For the Western people vodka is the main Russian national brand: speaking about Russians, a foreigner implies that vodka affects the majority of them. But how far is it true? Is it a primary tradition? How it became so popular among Russians? The key answer is given in a rare and little-known book of Russian historian Ivan Pryzhov: the man,[Read More…]

December 10, 2017 0 comments History & Culture
How to deal with depression – Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

How to deal with depression – Shaykh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi

Muhammad Abul Huda al-Yaqoubi is a prominent Syrian Islamic scholar. He himself and his family are of an expressed Caucasian type (like many Syrians are) and are a descendants of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him).   They are a family of Islamic scholars that traces its roots back to Morocco. and has taught the Islamic sciences for centuries.[Read More…]

December 10, 2017 0 comments Faith
Miracle of the Quran – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Miracle of the Quran – Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

Hamza Yusuf was born as Mark Hanson in Walla Walla, Washington to two academics working at Whitman College and he was raised in northern California. He grew up a practicing Greek Orthodox Christian and attended prep schools on both the east and west coasts. In 1977, after a near-death experience and reading the Qur’an, he converted from Christianity to Islam[5][Read More…]

December 10, 2017 0 comments Faith
Hui: the based nation of Chinese Muslims

Hui: the based nation of Chinese Muslims

Walking through the Muslim quarter of Xi’an is a fascinating venture into a hodge-podge of cultures. The smell of lamb skewers and hot spices wafts through the crowded streets. Chinese-looking women in headscarfs stretch noodles, while an old man with a white prayer hat stands in front of a mosque with a distinctly Chinese arched roof.   This is the home[Read More…]

December 7, 2017 0 comments History & Culture
American Muslims, Lot’s Wife, and the Christian Baker

American Muslims, Lot’s Wife, and the Christian Baker

Several progressive Muslim organizations have signed an amicus brief supporting the same-sex couple in the Masterpiece Cakeshop case. This not only distorts Islamic teaching and anthropology, it also fuels the increasingly powerful movement of militant irreligious orthodoxy. by Ismail Royer The Quran tells us that when God sent the Prophet Lot to the city of Sodom to call its people to righteousness[Read More…]

December 3, 2017 0 comments Society