I Can’t Explain You (Oh Messenger of God) by Aaron Haroon Sellars 4/24/08 I could not write about you For fear Fear of your presence And fear of My hearts’ brittleness That I might die In this pursuit Yet wishing to die In this state of intoxicated love This is the conflict within me Lan...

“A miniature from Zubdat al-Tawarikh by Luqman-i-Ashuri, Turkey, c. 1583.The lower register shows Abraham about to sacrifice Ishmael,and underneath is a genealogy of the children of Ishmael…Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, ms. 414, fol. 68v.�—Encyclopedia Judaica In Islam’s Qur'an at Surah ...

Be aware that the various spellings used in this article: Qorân, Qur�n, Qur'ân, Qur'an, Kur'an and Koran are mere variants in referring to the holy book of Islam. Is the fact that Muhammad wrote of Jesus proof that he was divinely inspired? After all, so the reasoning goes Muhammad lived circa 60...

At the Islamic Center, we quietly waited in the place of worship for the chanting prayers to conclude. We were then ushered into a small office, as soon as we sat to converse with two men, a third man opened the door for a moment and handed over a thermos filled with a most delicious tea for us to s...

No assembly ever meets to remember Allah which is not attended by the Angels and not covered by Allah's Mercy and where Allah the Almighty does not remember those among them who are close to Him. - saying of Prophet Muhammad, peace and blessings be upon him Above is a hadith or islamic tradition, al...

There is a Prophetic saying of Muhammad full of mystical implication where he says: "I was made to love three things from your world: women, perfume, and the comfort of eyes in saalat (adoration of Divine / worship / islamic mode of prayer)." The saying can not be fully appreciated without the under...

Faqr Fakhri Poverty is my pride - Prophet Muhammad Ali Eteraz writes beautifully worth sharing here: (...) the abject poverty that afflicted the Prophet Muhammad. Here was a man who was subjected to such a long series of painful episodes, and survived them all so miraculously, that it was almost if ...