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Repentance, Sincere Penitence and Turning to God in Contrition

Repentance, Sincere Penitence, And Turning To God In Contrition

Repentance, Sincere Penitence, And Turning To God In Contrition This article covers repentance, sincere penitence, and turning to God in contrition. Repentance means that one feels regret and is filled with remorse for his or her sins and turns to God with the intention to obey Him. According to truth-seeking...

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Praying God Five Times A Day

Praying God Five Times A Day Does Human Spirit Really Need Praying God Five Times A Day? Man is created rather weak, yet eve­rything involves, affects and saddens him. Also he is utterly lacking in power, yet the calamities and enemies that afflict him are numerous. He is also extremely...

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Importance Of The Daily Prescribed Prayers

Importance Of The Daily Prescribed Prayers This article is about daily prescribed prayers. In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate The prescribed prayers are the pillar of the religion. A parable to understand the value and importance of the daily prescribed prayers If you would really like to...

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Bliss and Benefit of The Prescribed Prayers

Bliss and Benefit of The Prescribed Prayers What Bliss And Benefit Come With The Prescribed Prayers (Salah)? In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate O you people, worship… (The Quran 2:21) If you wish to understand the bliss and benefit that come with prayer, and the grave loss...

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Hardship Of Daily Prayers

Hardship Of Daily Prayers This article covers the hardship of daily prayers. Does Praying Five Times a Day is Boring and Wearying? Once, a man of considerable age, great stature, and high social position said to me: ‘The prayer is OK, but five times a day is too much; it...

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Daily Prayers

Daily Prayers Why Was Doing The Daily Prayer Prescribed Five Times A Day? You ask me the reasons for the apportioning of the daily prayers into five definite durations. I’ll take up just one of very many reasons. “In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate” Glory be to...

Ramadan

A Radiant Month In A Darkening World

A Radiant Month In A Darkening World This article covers the Holy Month of Ramadan. The world is undergoing a series of depressions, one within the other. Humanity is restless and living with nightmares. Yet, Ramadan is once more on the way, appearing on the horizon like the silent full...

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Fasting In The Month Of Ramadan

Fasting In The Month Of Ramadan This section consists of Nine Points, which explain Divine purpose for ordering the fasting during the month of Ramadan. “In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. It was the month of Ramadan in which the Quran was bestowed from on high as...

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The Five Pillars of Islam

The Five Pillars of Islam The most important Muslim practices are the Five Pillars of Islam: the profession of faith, ritual prayer, alms-giving, fasting, and the pilgrimage to Mecca. Upholding the pillars is considered obligatory for all sincere followers of the Prophet Muhammad, male and female, Sunni and Shi’a, but...

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Qur’anic Concept Of History

What Is The Qur’anic Concept of History? What distinguishes the Qur’anic concept of history from other philosophies is that, first of all, while philosophers of history or sociologists build their conceptions on the interpretation of past events and present situations, the Qur’an deals with the matter from the perspective of...

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Book And Wisdom (Kitab And Hikma)

Book And Wisdom (Kitab and Hikma) This article is about the Book (The Holy Quran) and The Wisdom The Qur’an and Hadith Books “Wisdom / حكمة (Hikma)” is a recurrent word in the Qur’an. “For this We sent a Messenger to you from among you to recite our Verses to...

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Arabian Wisdom

Arabian Wisdom Arabian Wisdom, short collection of Islamic wisdom literature was originally published in the Wisdom of the East Series. It features gems from the Quran, the Hadith, and traditional proverbs and aphorisms. This is principally meant as an enjoyable read; unfortunately the sayings are unattributed, which makes it less...

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Ziyarat

Ziyarat In Islam, ziyara(h) (زيارة‎, ziyārah, “visit”) or ziyarat (زیارت‎, ziyārat, “pilgrimage”) is a form of pilgrimage to sites associated with Muhammad, his family members and descendants (including the Shī‘ī Imāms), his companions and other venerated figures in Islam such as the prophets, Sufi auliya, and Islamic scholars. Sites of pilgrimage...

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Sufism

What Is Sufism? Sufism, mystical Islamic belief and practice in which Muslims seek to find the truth of divine love and knowledge through direct personal experience of God. It consists of a variety of mystical paths that are designed to ascertain the nature of humanity and of God and to...

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List Of Shia Books

List Of Shia Books This article covers the list of Shia books. Shia Islam or Shi’ism is one of the two main branches of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor and the Imam (leader) after him, most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm, but was prevented from...

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Criticism Of Muhammad

Criticism Of Muhammad Criticism of Muhammad has existed since the 7th century, when Muhammad was decried by his non-Muslim Arab contemporaries for preaching monotheism, and by the Jewish tribes of Arabia for his unwarranted appropriation of Biblical narratives and figures, vituperation of the Jewish faith, and proclaiming himself as “the last prophet” without performing any miracle nor showing any personal requirement demanded in the Hebrew Bible to...

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Judaism’s Views On Muhammad

Judaism’s Views On Muhammad This article covers Judaism’s Views on Muhammad. Very few texts in Judaism refer to or take note of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad. Those that do, generally reject Muhammad’s proclamation of receiving divine revelations from God and label him instead as a false prophet. Background In Judaism,...

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Medieval Christian Views On Muhammad

Medieval Christian Views On Muhammad This article covers the Medieval Christian Views on Muhammad. During the Early Middle Ages, Christendom largely viewed Islam as a Christological heresy and Muhammad as a false prophet. By the Late Middle Ages, Islam was more typically grouped with heathenism, and Muhammad was viewed as...

Miniature of Muhammad rededicating the Black Stone at the Kaaba. From Jami Al-Tawarikh, c. 1315

Depictions Of Muhammad

Depictions Of Muhammad The permissibility of depictions of Muhammad in Islam has been a contentious issue. Oral and written descriptions of Muhammad are readily accepted by all traditions of Islam, but there is disagreement about visual depictions. The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad, but there are a few hadith (supplemental teachings) which have explicitly prohibited Muslims...

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Muhammad In Islam

Muhammad In Islam Muslims often refer to Muhammad as Prophet Muhammad, or just The Prophet or The Messenger, and regard him as the greatest of all Prophets. He is seen by the Muslims as a possessor of all virtues. As an act of respect, most Muslims follow the name of Muhammad by the Arabic benediction sallallahu ‘alayhi wa...