People have landed upon the Moon and Muslims are still fighting about the moon sighting. Islamic Shari’ah is not static. It responds to people of all times and differing circumstances. Actual moon sighting is a mean to determine Ramadan and not an objective in itself. Islam requires certainty regarding the sacred timings...
In the West, several views have existed concerning the person and mission of Rasulullah (SAW). He seems to be the most hated as well as respected figure in the West.
In Islam God, Allah, the Most Merciful and Compassionate, stands alone: transcendent and majestic. The faith is marked by a strict and uncompromising ethical monotheism which requires its followers to translate into action the divine attributes of mercy, compassion, charity, love and peace in an effort to establish a balanced, just and peaceful human society.
This year Eidul Adha is falling on a Friday. Many Muslims are asking whether or not the Friday prayer is obligatory in this situation. The answer is “yes”, according to the majority’s opinion.
The Friday prayer is mandated by the Qur’an as Allah SWT has commanded in Surah al-Juma’:
The Hijri year 1433 is coming to an end. Wednesday, October 17 was the first day of Zul-Hijjah, the 12th month of Islamic lunar calendar. The Day of Arafah (9th Zul-Hijjah) will be on Thursday, October 25 and Eidul Adha will be on Friday, October 26. The month of Zul-Hijjah is the last of the four sacred months “Ashur al-Haram” sanctified by the Qur’an. Allah SWT states in Surah al-Towbah:
The Fiqh Council of North America strongly condemns the attacks in Cairo on the American Embassy and the killing of innocent Americans in Benghazi, including the US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens. Unfortunately these horrific acts of violence were perpetrated once again in the name of Islam and to defend the honor of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him) who was sent by God Almighty as a “Mercy to mankind” and not as a reference for murdering innocent, non-combatant, peaceful civilians.
The famous English author Karen Armstrong, while discussing IIIT’s recent publication “The Concept of God in the Judaic, Christian and Islamic Traditions”, remarked that calling Jesus God is heresy. She noticed that the early Greeks tried their best to make a sense of the ineffable God by reflecting upon multiple aspects of His existence. The Trinitarian understanding of God was just one interpretation among many of the divine majesty, not meant to cause division of persons in the godhead but to make the transcendent God more imminent and accessible to humanity.
George Bethune English, a friend of the Secretary of State and then President James Madison, was a Muslim. George English (1787–1828) was an American adventurer, diplomat, soldier, and convert to Islam. He was born in Cambridge (Boston) and received his Masters in divinity/Christian theology from the Harvard University. He was an ordained minister. English began to have doubts about central Christian dogmas while studying divinity at Harvard.
