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Cultivating Patience

By Shaykh Hasan Elwan

How do we cultivate patience? How do we tame our lower passions? How do we rise above our instinctive, animal nature? How can we develop inner peace, equilibrium? How can we become content with whatever Allah sends our way, hard or easy?

Listen to this inspiring and informative khutbah……

Jihad and Hanukkah

“Unfortunately, the struggle (Jihad) for religious freedom exemplified by Hanukah still goes on. Thank God, those of us who live in democratic states can fight for religious freedom non-violently within the laws of our own countries. This was not the situation in the past…”

Responding to hate, by Shaykh Ismail Londt

By Sheikh Ismail Londt, Masjid Awwal, Cape Town, 21 February 2014

How should Muslims respond to hatred and prejudice? What example has Prophet Muhammad sws set for us?

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Muslim American Women are the new ‘normal’

“When you hide an entire group of women behind lazy, monolithic, and often inaccurate clichés, you impede the understanding and respect that come when people from different backgrounds get to know one another. You discount that we have something to learn from each other. You preclude the possibility of affection.

In effect, you keep us from being friends, and that is a loss for all of us.”

Your mother … precious beyond words

by Sheikh Abduragman Alexander, Masjid Al Quds, Cape Town, South Africa  “A-úthu billáhi minash shaytánir rajeem. Bismilláhir rahmánir raheem Al hamdu lillahi nahmaduhu …