NHS Ramadan Health Guide
Forwarded by Dr A Rahman Khan
“This Guide is essential reading, especially for those who have health concerns and who want to fast during this blessed month.”
Ramadan and Shavuot
By Rabbi Allen S Maller
“According to a Hadith cited by ibn Kathir in elucidating Qur’an 2:185; Ramadan is a very special month because this one month in the Islamic lunar calendar was the same month when four of God’s books of revelations were sent down to four special Prophets: Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad. ..”
1-a-day Duahs for Ramadan
Forwarded by Dr A Rahman Khan
“Beautify your fasting experience by reciting at least one of the following duahs [supplications]. There are 30 duahs, one for each day of Ramadan.
Grandfather’s Wisdom
By Mir Mahmood Ali.
“Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. One who asks a question may be a fool for a minute, but one who does not ask is a fool forever. So don’t be shy to ask.
Take lesson from the candle … which burns itself to give light to others, and banishes darkness.”
Which Abrahamic religion is the easiest?
By Rabbi Allen Maller
“Orthodox Rabbis did not follow the example of Muhammad as narrated by his wife ‘Aisha: Whenever Allah’s Apostle was given the choice of one of two matters, he would choose the easier of the two, as long as it was not sinful to do so, but if it was sinful to do so, he would not approach it…”
Fewer missionaries now seeking to convert Jews and Muslims
By Rabbi Allen S Maller
“The decline in Baptist missionaries is due to financial limitations and not to a growing belief in religious pluralism. Southern Baptists have seen a decline in membership, dropping from 16.3 million in 2003 to just under 15.5 million in 2016. With the money saved by the reduction of full time foreign missionaries, the Baptists will likely expand their efforts to convert Jews and Muslims in the U.S…”
The truth about Muslims in America
By Holly Yan, CNN.
“While in many parts of the Muslim world, women are confined to second-class status, that’s not the case among American Muslims. Virtually all of them, 90%, agree that women should be able to work outside the home. American Muslim women hold more college or postgraduate degrees than Muslim men. And they are more likely to work in professional fields than women from most other U.S. religious groups…”
Tolerance in Islam (Lessons from history}
By Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall (1927)
“It was the Christians outside the Muslim Empire who systematically and continually fed their religious fanaticism: it was their priests who told them that to slaughter Muslims was a meritorious act. I doubt if anything so wicked can be found in history as that plot for the destruction of Turkey. When I say “wicked,” I mean inimical to human progress and therefore against Allah’s guidance and His purpose for mankind. For it has made religious tolerance appear a weakness in the eyes of all the world, because the multitudes of Christians who lived peacefully in Turkey are made to seem the cause of Turkey’s martyrdom and downfall; while on the other hand the method of persecution and extermination which has always prevailed in Christendom is made to seem comparatively strong and wise…”