Companions Promised Paradise (Ashara Mubashara)
One of the goals believers want to reach is entering paradise, because the Quran commands people to race to enter paradise. "Be quick in the race for forgiveness from your Lord, and for a Garden whose width is that (of the whole) of the heavens and of the earth, prepared for the righteous" (Al-i Imran 3/133). Who has gained Paradise will be apparent in the afterlife, but Allah promised it to the...

Uniting Through Worship
The tarawih prayer, one of the few supererogatory prayers that can be prayed with a congregation, has an important function in respect to enabling individuals to get to know one another, to draw closer to one another and to become reconciled. When the tarawih is performed together, Muslims are better able to comprehend their distinct identity and it allows them to feel unity with their Muslim bro...

A Miracle Is The Statement of a Challange
Miracle (mujiza in Arabic) means “a wonderous event that can not be imitated and makes people feel powerless.” However, this frequently encountered word is not used in the Quran or in the hadiths (sayings of the Prophet). Instead, the words ayet (sign), ayat (signs), beyyine, delil(proof), delail (proofs) are adopted in the Quran to designate a miracle. Miracle, as a term denotes an e...

Prophet Muhammad's Attitude towards Slavery from the Perspective
The history of slavery dates back to the dawn of the history of mankind; throughout this time it has existed in every kind of society, although in each society, slaves have been treated differently. In some societies, they had no rights at all, except at the mercy of their masters. When Islam came to the Arabian Peninsula, slavery existed there, as it did in many other pre-Islamic societies. Isla...