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Gaza: Living a half-life in a place that is half-death

By Dr. Hassan Al-Qatrawi

(First published by Arablit.org)

“I sit alone, next to my remote tent, in one of the places here that is made for half-humans. Every night, since the first day of my displacement, is the same, and I feel as though I live among graves. In displacement, tents are mass graves. So I just try to live a half-life, in this place where life itself is half-death. ..

I am starving in Gaza

By Nour Elassy

(first published on Al Jazeera.com)

“I am starving in Gaza and I don’t believe the world can’t do anything
Israel tried to starve Gaza before and the international community reacted. Why isn’t it doing anything now?”

Amid all the darkness: How kindness helped me survive one year of Israel’s genocide in Gaza

By Nour ElAssy
From: The New Humanitarian
“As I watch the full moon rise above the dark skies of Gaza, all I can think of is the state of moral bankruptcy in the world that has allowed this genocide to go on for one year. Amid all of this, how do we – Palestinians still surviving in Gaza – preserve our humanity? How do we maintain our moral compass when everything around us is urging us to let it go?”

A practical guide to Eid Al Adha

Masjid DarusSalam in Lombard, Illinois

Here is an easy step-by-step guide to Eid Al Adha. it includes personal preparation, a short khutbah in Arabic with English translation and transliteration.

The Purpose of Fasting in Islam

by Justin Parrott (Islamicity.com)

Al-Gazali wrote: “Know that there are three degrees of fasting: the fasting of common people, the fasting of the elite, and the fasting of the elite of the elite. As for the fasting of the common people, it is retraining the stomach from fulfilling its desires as has been mentioned. As for the fasting of the elite, it is restraining one’s hearing, sight, tongue, hands, feet, and all limbs from sin. As for the fasting of the elite of the elite, it is the fasting of the heart from unworthy concerns and worldly thoughts and to restrain it entirely from everything besides Allah the Exalted.”

Isra’ wal Mi’raj

From: Islamicity.org
What was the nature of this journey? Did it take place when the Prophet was asleep or when he was awake? Did he actually undertake a journey in the physical sense or did he have a spiritual vision while remaining in his own place? These questions, in our view, have been resolved by the text of the Quran itself. The opening statement: “Holy is He Who carried His servant by night from the Holy Mosque to the farther Mosque… “