July 2013 Blog Posts (27)

QURAN - SURA 81

In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.

1. When the sun is rolled up.

2. When the stars are dimmed.

3. When the mountains are set in motion.

4. When the relationships are suspended.

5. When the beasts are gathered.

6. When the oceans are set aflame.

7. When the souls are paired.

8. When the girl, buried alive, is asked:

9. For what crime was she killed?

10. When the records are made public.…

(The Root) -- Few theatrical productions are the talk of the town as much as the National Theatre's Othello currently

Actors Rory Kinnear (Iago) and Adrian Lester (Othello) in Othello (National Theatre

By: Lindsay Johns…

CAIR Offers Condolences on Death of Helen Thomas

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 7/21/13) – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation's largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today offered condolences to the family of pioneering White House journalist…

The not-guilty verdict for George Zimmerman in the death of Florida teen Trayvon Martin has outraged many people…

The Washington Monthly             /               By Ed Kilgore

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Only in America...a few thoughts from a few friends on the Murder of a Young Black Male

  Shaykh Mouhamadou Mahy Cissé is a Muslim, a teacher, and a consummate

Imam Mansour Sabree and Sheikh Mahy Cisse Atlanta Masjid Of Al Islam

Click To See Slide Show: …

Actor, rapper & human rights activist Yasiin Bey, aka Mos Def graphically demonstrates a little of what Uncle Sam's untried, un-accused, unsentenced but permanently incarcerated prisoners at Guantanamo Bay & elsewhere undergo every day...  not for the faint of heart.  From the Guardian, where you can find much more real journalistic coverage of the NSA and more.…

Preparing For Ramadan with Al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz (May Allah Preserve Him) said:[1]

“Make sure you end Sha’ban in the best of states, for Allah records the rewards that we will receive and the supererogatory actions that we will perform before Ramadan enters. He also records the bad deeds and the wretchedness of those that will be deprived the blessings of Ramadan.  What will be your state on the last Friday of Sha’ban and the night…

Ramadan Mubarak From Me And My Family

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali said in verse [translated:], ‘how can we not give the glad tidings of the opening of the doors

Written by salahudeen

of Jannah to the believer, how can we not give the glad tidings for the closing of the doors of jahnanam, how can we not give glad tidings for the one who is sensible on the day that the shaytan is tied up and how is it possible that this time resembles any other time.’…

Ramadan (Arabic: رمضان‎ Ramaḍān, Arabic pronunciation: [rɑmɑˈdˤɑːn]) (also Ramadhan, Ramadaan, Ramazan, Romjan…

In response to an essay I wrote recently regarding the "essential blackness" of the Palestinian struggle, I received this

Last week, on June 23, Israeli President Shimon Peres and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel attended a ceremony in

Jerusalem in honor of a new joint initiative between Israel’s Ben-Gurion University and the University of Chicago.

Hailing the Peres-Emanuel presence as an instance…