Unparalleled Humility and Compassion
How did you decide to embrace Islam? any "one" incident you can specify? I had a very intense, transformative spiritual experience of light when I was 16.  I spent the next few years searching, studying different religions in an effort to understand that experience.  Ultimately, this led me to Islam. How can you compare the notion of prophethood in Christianity and in Islam? In the Bible, many pr...

Love and More Love is the Prophet's Way
Robby Ramazan Verburg (45), born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands is an accountant. He currently resides in the Netherlands. He embraced Islam about 6-7 years ago.  When and how did you come to embrace Islam? Is there any "one" incident you can pinpoint? It happened about 6-7 years ago. While my whole family is atheist, I always had a need for more meaning in life. It has taken me a long time to re...

History cannot exhaust the Character of Prophet Muhammad
digg_title = "Coming Back to Life With Islam"; var sburl8910 = window.location.href; var sbtitle8910 = document.title; Adam Juhasz (21) became Muslim in 2008. He lives in Budapest, Hungary and works with Turkish businessmen as an interpreter (Turkish, English, Hungarian). He told Lastprophet.info how he had become Muslim, as well as talking about what the main points of Islam wer...

From the Captivity of the Self to the Freedom of the Fast
The body provides boundaries for a person. It tells us where to start and where to stop. This is the first experience of boundaries that a person has in their childhood. In the same way that the human mind feels that it is buried in one's body, it either perceives the body as its "house" or as a foreign place. The nafs (ego) and the crippled modern person have problems with their bodies. The bod...

Coming like a Miracle Each Year
Fasting is the first guest of my pen's new homeland. Just as happens every year, the time has come and the clock's miraculous alarm has sounded: we saw the non-aging, ever-fresh, ever-bright moon on the horizon as a fine, silver bow. We suddenly realized how much we missed this angel of love that has been a friend of our spirit since the beginning of time. Like a fine, silver reed, the moon made ...

A Common Form of Worship: Fasting
Regardless of how far back we go in time or how far away we travel in space, the reality of religion has existed in every unit of time and space where man has lived. For the need to believe is one of man's basic characteristics and creating a value system and tying it to a source of faith is a psychological and social necessity for man. This quality which separates man from other creatures is nat...

Training the Soul Beginning from the Body


The fasting person is a hungry person. The hungry person does not forget themselves, gravitating towards the external world and making it an object for themselves as those with full stomachs do. On the contrary, they turn towards themselves and become their own object due to their hunger.

Just as the person who always looks around rather than looking at themselves does not see that which is ...

Fasting: Cement Block-Busting
Just as spring cleaning is made in a house once a year when the cob webs are swept away, the roof is repaired, and the house is cleaned, repaired and painted, our souls need such a general cleaning and revision once a year. A city's being cleaned, repaired, renewed, plastered and painted greatly resembles a Muslim city's spiritual dynamism, elevation and advancement throughout the fast. When loo...

Anniversary of the Quran's First Revelation
The Qur'an began to be revealed on the Night of Power during the month of Ramadan. Revelation to the Prophet Muhammad continued in parts according to need during various periods of time, and this process lasted approximately 23 years. Due to its being the month in which the Holy Quran was first revealed, the month of Ramadan has a special place in the lives of Muslims. The month of Ramadan is the...

Night of Power
The Night of Power is a night praised by the Quran, because the Night of Power is the night the Quran descended. The Night of Power is a "center-of-gravity night." Allah put all the power of his sacred words in this night. If the Quran had not been revealed, the universe and existence and every type of creation would have remained as magic or as a riddle whose secret could not be known. It was re...

The Mosque’s Silent Guests: Women
Holding an important place in the life of Muslims, mosques are places that bring people of every age and social strata together, enable them to gain the consciousness of servanthood to God, and allow them to perform worship in a proper manner according to correct religious knowledge that has been purified from false beliefs and superstitions. Benefiting greatly from the mosque and congregation d...

Fitr Alms
One of the five basic principles Islam offers to man to gain happiness in this world and the next is the Ramadan fast. The five basic things that the religion of Islam aims to protect are religion, nafs (ego or soul), the mind, property and chastity (maslahat al-khamsa). When looked at in the light of these principles, it can be seen that all of religion's commands and prohibitions serve the prot...