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A Young Couple’s Hajj Experience

Performing Hajj at a young age and for the first time is an amazing experience. Young Muslims are curious to know what it is like to perform Hajj. They want to know about the challenges and the special moments people experience while performing the Hajj rituals. We will know all these things and more through reading the story of a young married couple’s Hajj experience.

Allah's Artistry In Colour | A Colorful World

Have you ever thought what it would be like to live in a world without color? Free yourself for a moment from your experience, forget all that you've learned and start using your imagination. Try to visualize your body, the people around you, the seas, the sky, trees, flowers, in short everything in black. Imagine that there is no color around you. Try to think how you would feel if people, cats, dogs, birds, butterflies, and fruits had no color at all. You would never want to live in such a world, would you?

The Secret of Happiness

There are so many points of views about this subject that it is too difficult to define it comprehensively. These kinds of discord are because of man’s different views towards the life and its purpose.

What shape is the earth?

Today we can look at a globe and know that the earth is somewhat like a ball, a sphere. The Qur'an makes certain statements that led muslim scientists to understand long before their European counterparts that the earth is spherical.

Wonders of Allah in Social System of Ants

Ants live in colonies and a perfect division of labor exists amongst them. When we take a closer look at their systems, we shall also see that they have a pretty interesting social structure. It will also come to our attention that they are capable of sacrifice at a much higher level than humans are. One of the most interesting points is that - compared to humans - they do not know the concepts such as the rich-poor discrimination and the fight for power that are observed in our societies.

Material Comfort or Spiritual Happiness

A person with a religious goal cannot brook (tolerate or bear) the standards of worldly life. A worldly lifestyle that consists of seeking pleasure, wealth, fame, and material comforts will inevitably distract one from pursuing any spiritual purpose.

Cloning in the Qur'an and Tradition

Islamic Perspectives on Human Cloning Dr. Abdulaziz Sachedina In the present article I will attempt to summarize a wide range of opinions that have emerged among the scholars of Islamic law and theology in its Sunni and Shi'i formulations in the wake of the cloning technology that produced Dolly the sheep.

Islam, Muslims, and modern technology

In this interview, Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr highlights the impact of modern technologies on human habitats and ecosystems. The destruction of environment by modern technology is seen as one of the most serious threats faced by humanity. Modern technologies have also replaced traditional methods of making objects of daily use. This replacement has serious consequences for the spiritual health of humanity. In discussing the impact of modern technology on the Muslim world, suggestions are made to preserve various aspects of Islamic civilization.

Science and Civilization in Islam

The history of science is often regarded today as the progressive accumulation of techniques and the refinement of quantitative methods in the study of Nature. Such a point of view considers the present conception of science to be the only valid one; it therefore judges the sciences of other civilizations in the light of modern science and evaluates them primarily with respect to their "development" with the passage of time.

The Interior Life in Islam

"O thou soul which are at peace, return unto thy Lord, with gladness that is thine in Him and His in thee. Enter thou among My slaves. Enter thou My Paradise." (Quran - LXXXIX; 27-30 trans. by M. Lings.)

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