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Empowering New Muslims

By Arshad Gamiet
“A good Muslim personality is constructed from the inside, not from the outside. It begins with the right attitude, the right disposition of the heart… When the attitude is right and the qalb, the spiritual heart is sound, everything else, including the hijabs, niqabs, burqas, beards, thobes and turbans may (or may not) take care of themselves later… Let’s always keep our sense of perspective, and remember our priorities.”

The Power of Positive Islamic Thinking

By Dr Hossam Roushdi
“Cultivating a postive mental attitude not only helps improve our mental and emotional health. Research at the Mayo Clinic has found that it also improves our physical health. Positive people suffer less from heart disease, hypertension, strokes and diabetes…..”

Another audio khutbah for Eidul Fitr 2014

By Arshad Gamiet

“Never belittle even the smallest good deed that you can do, in Allah’s Name. He will infuse barakah, He will magnify your good deeds far beyond your wildest imagination…”

A brief history of Jerusalem, and the struggle in Gaza

By Dr Husni Hammuda
“Prophet Muhammad (sws) mentions three mosques that hold a special status in the history of Islam: (1) The Haram al Shareef in Makka, (2) Masjid al Nabawi in Madinah, and (3) Masjid al Aqsa in Jerusalem. It was in Masjid al Aqsa that Prophet Muhammad sws led all the other Prophets in prayer, during his mysterious Night Journey (Al Isra wal Mi’raj)

Islam and the Environment

By Imam Noor Salie “The World Is Moving Into A Water Stress Era. Water Tables Are Falling In Almost Every Country That Irrigates Underground Water. Farmers Are Losing Water To The Ever Growing Cities. Glaciers Are Melting Faster Than Expected Due To Global Warming Which Results In Mountain Peoples’ Reduction In Their Water Supply. Underground Water Becomes Contaminated Due To Mining Activities In Many Areas….”

Minimal and Maximal meaning in reading the Qur’an

“The minimal approach finds more meaning in less, thus find more meaning in the least, and this is the baraka and secret of zuhd. This may also affect how many adhkar we do, we may do much but in reality we budget our dhikr, and put less and less of ourselves into each of those dhikrs until it is not our egoes but the dhikr that is effaced. To find more meaning in little, even if its a single verse, is a fruit of zuhd and allows the heart to be more positively affected….”

Islam and the culture of Muslims

Part of a series of talks broadcast on Radio 786 in Cape Town by Shaykh Fadlallah Haeri. Shaykh Fadlallah has established  the Academy of …