A New Form of Activism: Message Bombardment in Web Forums
The integration of the Islamic way of thinking and living with modern communication and the Internet has created a new aspect to the socialization process for Muslims and a new form of communication for people from different religions and cultures. Mail groups and online forums established by the participation of hundreds, sometimes even thousands, of people, Muslim and non-Muslim, find an opport...

I Bet I Can Find
Facebook is one of those spheres where feelings towards Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), positive or negative, can be expressed in the most exaggerated way. Far from reflecting academic currents, Facebook groups establish an important trend to follow, allowing us to discover what the actual disputes about the Prophet are. For instance, while the group "I bet I can find more than 10,000,000,000,000,000,00...

The Question of Online Fatwas
Together with the increasing use of the Internet by Muslim community, the online fatwas, or religious decrees have also become popular. In fact, they have become the new, easily accessible alternative for the Muslim community in the place of mosques and other such conventional religious centers. Muslims log on to the internet to present their problems and receive immediate detailed responses. No ...

Islamic Devices on Sale: “ADD TO CART”
  With dazzling speed, electronic and digital Islamic products have started to stretch beyond the boundaries of the imagination; they are now mobilizing the markets as well as helping people carry out their religious duties. Today we can listen to electronic Qurans, remember the time of the prayers with the help of adhan readers and use electronic devices to keep track of our supererogatory praye...

From a Trustworthy Prophet to Islam
Reyyan Kılıç is a former pharmacist from the Philippines. She is married and has young sons. In her free time, she enjoys reading books, magazines and emails friends and spending time with her family. How did you decide to embrace Islam? Is there any one incident you can specify? For years I believed what I was told and just followed blindly. Whereas most of the people I knew were Catholics and ...

"More People Converting to Islam in Denmark after the Cartoon Cr
We interviewed Gonca Şenler, an active member of the Islamic community in Denmark, about the repercussions of the cartoon crisis, as well as what the rates of conversion to Islam in Denmark were and the reasons for such conversions. According to official figures, the number of Muslim Danish citizens in 2005 was 2,500, whereas this number increased to 4,000 in 2007. Danish citizen Abdul Wahid Pede...

Reasons for Opposition to Hadith
The word "hadith" is the name of an infinitive meaning "to explain, inform, the thing explained/informed about, news, and words." The word was taken from this broad dictionary meaning and began to be used for some special news. Thus, in time this particular meaning developed which relates to news about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). This news includes everything about the Prophe...

Belief in God
To understand and truly live Islam requires that one familiarizes themselves with Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and his approach to life. Understanding and getting to know him is possible through grasping the essential beliefs of Islam correctly. For this reason, as Lastprophet.info, we would like to bring to your attention, under the section titled Islam, the faith's fundamental beliefs along with...

The Source of Religion
According to Islamic belief, the source/founder of religion is Allah. Having established religion, Allah informed man of the rules He wanted them to follow by means of the prophets, and he gave the prophets the duty of making sure these rules were understood and implemented. If in this sense prophets are the secondary source of religion, the validity of their explanations is under the control of ...

Why is religion necessary?
  Why Is Religion Necessary? Man wants to give meaning to the universe he is in, the life he lives, events and, most importantly, himself. In this effort to give meaning every person asks questions to himself and the universe according to his mental capacity. Essential questions like "Who am I? Where did I come from and where am I going? What is the meaning and pur...

Using Abstractions to Depict the Prophet in Cinema
Interview with film critic İhsan Kabil -Perhaps the first thing that comes to mind on the subject of "Prophets and the Cinema" are films about Jesus. What do you have to say about the approach of Western cinema to Jesus? Ever since the time of silent movies, cinema has approached Jesus' life in a very serious manner. American directors, in particular, depicted Jesus' life and put it on the scree...

On the Greeting (of peace)
As related by Abu Hurairah, the Prophet (pbuh) said the following: “I swear to Allah that you will not go to heaven unless you have faith. You will not be deemed to have believed unless you love one another. Should you do so, shall I tell you a way to love one another? Spread greetings among yourselves!” (Muslim, Iman 93-94) Faith, as it is described in the Holy Quran, is a concept that has roots...