Friday Sermon - The Ethics of Trade in Islam
Friday March 18, 2011 Lastprophet.info provides its readers with a weekly Friday sermon (khutbah), which may act as a supplemental guide for imams, hospital and prison chaiplains, Muslim organizations and societies (i.e. MSA), students and the general reader. All of our sermons have been prepared by imams, Islamic scholars and theologians in the Rebulic of Turkey. Please contact us if you would...

Friday Sermon - The Unity of the Qur'an and the Sunna
Friday February 25, 2011 Lastprophet.info provides its readers with a weekly Friday sermon (khutbah), which may act as a supplemental guide for imams, hospital and prison chaiplains, Muslim organizations and societies (i.e. MSA), students and the general reader. All of our sermons have been prepared by imams, Islamic scholars and theologians in the Republic of Turkey. Please contact us if you w...

Friday Sermon - The Importance of Supplication (Du’a)
Friday March 4, 2011 Lastprophet.info provides its readers with a weekly Friday sermon (khutbah), which may act as a supplemental guide for imams, hospital and prison chaiplains, Muslim organizations and societies (i.e. MSA), students and the general reader. All of our sermons have been prepared by imams, Islamic scholars and theologians in the Republic of Turkey. Please contact us if you would...

The Farewell Hajj and the Farewell Sermon
Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) met with Archangel Gabriel every Ramadan and read the verses which had been revealed up until then. In the month of Ramadan during the 10th year after the emigration (December, 631) Gabriel said that they would read the Holy Quran twice. The Prophet understood this to mean that his life was coming to an end, and informed his daughter Fatima of this. The Prophet would perf...

Bilal: The Pleasant Call to Islam
In the history of Islam, there are heroes of faith, men and women whose lives inspire us to be better people, better Muslims. Many of them were Companions of our beloved Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) and they experienced the growth of Islam right from the beginning. Many of them suffered hardships and great persecution for the sake of Islam, the Message of Allah. Their impeccable characters an...

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...

Where in the world is the first Call to Prayer recited?
Do you know where the first Call to Prayer is read every morning? Where the first iqama is recited and who prays the first daily prayer?   For millions of years the sun has first sent its rays to this place; it is the Kamchatka Peninsula which lies to the east of Japan and under Russia, flowing like a hook onto the ocean… The first people to see the rising sun are those in Kamchatka.   They are t...

Collective Iftar at the end of one Month of Fasting
  Eid is a day of joy and cheerfulness. It is one of those beautiful days when altruistic feelings overflow and the emotions of love and respect among Muslims become enlivened to the utmost. On that day helping and interacting reach their limit. Eid is one of the best means for bringing people together and making them feel close to one another. So much so that the sp...

Fasting And Economics
The only connection between fasting and economics for most of us is the market pick-up particularly in the food sector as Ramadan approaches. As if they have waited for the opportunity for 11 months, Muslims roll up their sleeves and naturally enliven the markets. Just like the writing materials and school clothing markets pick up with the opening of school every fall. In his famous work The Rev...

'Those With Dates at Home Won't Go Hungry'
The month of Ramadan is upon us. The display windows and street stands have now been prepared for Ramadan. The foods which will adorn the blessed iftar tables are piling up in storage rooms. The fruit which receives the most attention and is the most popular item on stands is undoubtedly the date. So much so that the date is one of the first food items which comes to mind when thinking of iftar t...

What is the Call to Prayer?
The word adhan is an Arabic word in the infinitive form with the dictionary meaning of "to inform, to announce, to call"; when this word is used for the recitation from the minarets of mosques at the time of compulsory prayers, it is the special announcement made to the believers five times a day. The word muezzin, which comes from the same root, means "one who reads the adhan", while mi'zene me...

Peace Through Inquiry
Daughter of a priest, whose father was also a priest in the Church of England, Clare Duman used to attend church every Sunday, like every practicing Christian, until the age of 18. Today living in Fethiye, Turkey with her husband and two children, Duman shares the peace of her last fifteen years with Lastprophet.info readers. “Before I married my Turkish husband I didn't really know anything abou...