Quicunque Vult: or, My Journey to Islam - II
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Abdal Hakim Murad

My journey to Islam

Quicunque Vult: or, My Journey to Islam - III
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Abdal Hakim Murad

"Taking Shahada Was Indeed Wittnessing to God"

Quicunque Vult: or, My Journey to Islam - IV
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Abdal Hakim Murad

“Christians, too, Can Recognize the Quran as the Word of God”

Description of the Prophet Muhammad
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Editor

Love (mahabba) for people arises from three characteristics. To increase and maintain his love for the Prophet Muhammad, upon him be peace, Hasan (the Prophet's grandson) sought descriptions of all three of these aspects of the Prophet because he wanted something to hold on to.

When the Social Contract is Breached in Egypt
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Editor

Something has irreversibly changed in the land of the Pharaohs. It has to do with the basic social contract, the relationship of a people to their leaders—a concept not alien to the Islamic tradition. The oppression that the Egyptian..

Fear of Poverty
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Editor

Fear of poverty originates in having a bad opinion of [God] the Exalted, and its cure is in having a good opinion and knowing that what God possesses is never diminished in the least and that what has been apportioned to you will reach you inevitably.

Keeping the Connection to the Prophet Alive
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Jonathan AC Brown

The Prophet Muhammad is ever present in the lives of Muslims, but how often do we ask ourselves about the nature of our connection to him or how his teachings have come down to us?   Certainly we know of his teachings and example from the Quran and Hadith...

Islamophobia in Italy II
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Ahmad Gianpiero Vincenzo

A fear of “others” is not exceptional in modern nations. Although this was not the case in the past, in recent times it has become a widespread problem. The Mediterranean area has been perceived as a place of common identity for centuries.

In the House of Islamophobia
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Ahmad Gianpiero Vincenzo

Islamophobia has spread throughout Italy. In 2007, the Northern League started an extensive campaing against Islam. Pigs were lead over areas in which mosques were to be built. Molotov coctails were launched during Islamic activities.      

Responsibilities for the Islamic Community
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Ahmad Gianpiero Vincenzo

The meeting with the Turkish scholars was very interesting many points of view. A group of Muslim intellectuals debating about Prophet Muhammad and the image of Islam in the West is something special today.

Could There Be a "Sirah Diary"?
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Editor

Is it possible to prepare a diary-like book based on the chronological order of events in the Prophet’s life? Could there be a ‘sirah diary’ in which his life can be followed day to day?

A Different Perspective on the Mawlid
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Nihal Şahin Utku

The entry of the last Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) into this world has been present to humanity by way of constant pushing of the boundaries of literature; many literary pens have competed with one another in order to turn their ink into lines..

Migration: the moment when time became steeped
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Nihal Şahin Utku

Abu Musa Al Ashari had just been assigned as the governor of Basra, however, Caliph Omar (pbuh) had requested that the inlands of Iran become penetrated, so the new governor had set out an expedition without much time to settle down.

The story of the Qur'an: From the lips of the Prophet to the holy book
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Nihal Şahin Utku

A tired army of Islam enters the city of Medina. The army, which was returning Yamama in order to suppress the uprising instigated by false Prophet Musailmah, is greeted with great joy in the Islamic capital.

Revelation: The gateway from the heavens to the earth
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Nihal Şahin Utku

Mount Hira seems to be hunched over it's own self. As though it has squatted and become solidified while watching Mecca. Similar to the mountains around it; similar to the city of Mecca which it doesn't take it's eyes off and...

We Are Here For Peace of Mind
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Nihal Şahin Utku

Minutes are passing as though they are hours. All eyes are on the clock's second hand, which appears to be as slow as the minute hand. Millions of people over the massive land extending the Atlantic to the Pacific, are racing against time which doesn't...

The understanding of the Prophet in the 20th Century Islamic world
Lastprophet.Info / The Prophet Muhammad (Saw) / Nihal Şahin Utku

The Islamic world, which demonstrated relative religious, communal and cultural unity up until the 18th century, entered a phase of regression against the West, which during the same century attained a high level of development.