Preparing for disaster
By Khalil Moya
“The weather forecasters tell us about a hurricane that MAY hit us, and we make emergency preparations. What about the Day of Judgement, the day that WILL come? Are we well prepared for that?”
Being attentive and completely focussed in our prayers
By Dr Hossam Roushdi
British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia converts to Islam
“The British ambassador to Saudi Arabia has become the first senior diplomat to convert to Islam and complete the Haj.
Simon Collis, 60, said he had decided to convert to Islam ‘after spending 30 years in Muslim societies’….”
Attached to the Quran
By Khalil Moya
Sacrifice for Allah
By Khalil Moya
Be ready for your death at any time
By Dr Husni Hammuda
“When death comes, the truth of what we have done with our lives will become manifestly clear…. Fill your life with good deeds. Be patient, be forbearing with others, be merciful, and The All Merciful will have mercy on you….”
How to earn the blessings of Hajj without actually being on Hajj
By Dr Husni Hammuda
Prophet Muhammad sws declared that: ““Whoever prays Fajr in congregation then sits remembering Allaah until the sun rises, then prays two rak’ahs, will have a reward like that of Hajj and ‘Umrah, complete, complete, complete.” Narrated by al-Tirmidhi (586).”
America’s Islamophobia is bad for everyone
By Rabbi Allen S Maller
“Also, all rabbis know that during the ten plus centuries of the Medieval Age, Jews were persecuted much less in Muslin countries than they were in Christian countries. Even today, Muslim extremist terrorists have slaughtered more Muslim victims, than the number of Christian and Jewish victims combined.
Our religious and political leaders could help improve interfaith relations in 2016 by constantly repeating the important lesson taught by a German Protestant theologian, Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984), about the cowardice of German intellectuals when the Nazis’ rise to power; and began purging their chosen targets, group after group:
First they arrested Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they arrested Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they arrested Jews, and I did not speak out—Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me…”