The Last Days of the Prophet
Prophet Muhammad became ill after he had returned to Medina from the Farewell Pilgrimage. During these days, he visited the martyrs of Uhud and performed their funeral prayers. One night, he went to the Jannat al-Baqi graveyard and prayed to God for their forgiveness. Meanwhile, Aswad al-Ansi from the Mazhij tribe proclaimed his false prophethood in Yemen. Aswad marched through Sana'a with about ...

The Importance of the Science of Sirah


The development of the morals and soul of the human being is the most important endeavor a human being can undertake. Although a number of different methods have been followed to realize this aim in different eras, the most indispensable resource in this effort for all times and places is the human model that can be found in the personalities of leaders.

At the head of these historical personalit...

"Let's talk sweeter than candy": Reflections of a Local Culture
Modern times have turned our daily life into a ball of confusion. Although we pride ourselves on living more comfortably, we are not even aware that we have actually lost many values. For many of us in Turkey, the joyous voices of children going from door-to-door collecting candy on holy holidays in the recent past are almost perceived today as scenes from fairy tales. We are sharing with you an ...

Who Should Eyes See, Who Should Tongues Speak Of?
Since the time the first light shone on this earth until now, how many human beings have had this much praise and have been the vehicle for the most celebrated atmosphere of love ever? It is no other than that "Beloved" who has been constantly on people's tongues and in their hearts since the time he lived and as a result, has been the inspiration for epic written works. The feelings of love, ded...

Mawlid (Holy Birth) Activities of Lastprophet.info
Within the framework of the Week of the Holy Birth this year Lastprophet.info has put its name to a number of activities in a variety of areas in Turkey. The aim, of course, was better introducing and acquainting people with Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). First of all, a series of lectures were organized under the theme "Comparative Theological and Religious Studies in the World and Turkey". On the pan...

Yet Another Anti-Muslim Film: Obsession
An American Jewish rabbi has produced a film declaring war against Islam. Rabbi Raphael Shore claims to have declared war on Western "Radical" Islam with the DVD he has prepared, "Obsession". "Obsession" is a 2005 anti-Muslim propaganda film put together by controversial anti-Muslim figures to further the perceived divide between Western and Muslim audiences. Just when the presidential elections ...

Muhammad Asad
Muhammad Asad (Leopold Weiss) was born in 1900, into a family of Jewish scholars in Poland. It was the tradition of his family that the son would become a rabbi, and therefore he received a strict religious education. He was so well instructed in the Jewish religion that he knew Aramaic and Hebrew very well. He studied the Torah in original. From his teenager years, Asad/Weiss made many unsuccess...

‘Acts of Worship slow down time'
  One of the most important reasons why the Muslim world has not been crushed and swallowed by the global system is the atmosphere of Ramadan. Our guest today is Professor Kemal Sayar, a psychiatrist who is also literature professor. His elegant style and broad-minded perspective as well as the depth in his answers to ou...

Have you ever heard the Call to Prayer?
If you live in a Muslim country, then you hear the call to prayer often throughout the daily routine. But here it might be better to use the verb "listen" rather than the verb "hear".... You hear the call to prayer five times a day, but do you listen to it? This call to prayer has become so much a part of our daily lives that we merely hear it and therefore we may not be aware of its true meaning...

Exploring the Truth within Cinema
We followed the trail left by the shadow. We pursued noble feelings, pure sorrow, harmless anger and universal truths on the silver screen, something normally dulled by violence and banality. While walking on the path made by film strips wrapped around the girth of the world we became fascinated by how Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) is treated as a topic for the cinema. We investigated how well the life...

Keeping the Connection to the Prophet Alive
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, but there is also a living connection to the Prophet that has been cultivated and guarded by generations of Muslim scholars. The tradition of I...

The Night of Salvation: Bara'a
Bara’a connotes the lack of relation between two things; a person becoming freed from an obligation or not having an obligation. It is understood that Allah clears his servants [slate] who face him on this night and ask for forgiveness.

The Night of Bara’a (Salvation or record) holds an important place among nights which are considered sacred. The hadith belonging to Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), in wh...