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Tawbah: Turning to Allah in Repentance

By Dr Hossam Roushdi.
“In Islam, sincere repentance not only effaces our sinful deeds. If we acknowledge our faults and sincerely repent to Allah, then the deed itself is marked as a good deed. Allah can turn our debits into credits, if we sincerely turn towards Him…”

The Crisis of ISIS

By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf To view this Youtube video, please click here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJo4B-yaxfk  

A Muslim woman founded one of the oldest universities

By Ashir Karim
“Today, over a thousand years after the founding of al-Qarawiyyin, one wonders: What went wrong? Why has Islamic civilization, despite the early jump in higher learning over other cultures, why has it not continued to be a pioneer in science, technology, medicine, and business? Why has it not been a vanguard of art and literature? And why is it that Muslims have not developed curious minds, an intellectual curiosity, that is the hallmark and at the root of Western civilization’s success…”

Israeli historian wants to ‘cease being a Jew’

By Schlomo Sand
“I am aware of living in one of the most racist societies in the western world. Racism is present to some degree everywhere, but in Israel it exists deep within the spirit of the laws. It is taught in schools and colleges, spread in the media, and above all and most dreadful, in Israel the racists do not know what they are doing and, because of this, feel in no way obliged to apologise…”