Mawlid all over the World
The twelfth night of the month of Rabi al-Awwal is a night of the blessed memory of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) throughout the Islamic world. In every corner of the world countless Muslims wait for this night, praying, re-reading his biography and celebrating his auspicious birth with different rituals, customs and ceremonies, unique to every culture and society. These celebrations, no matter what...

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...

The Life Changing Wisdom of Forty Hadith


"Najla" T. Ilhan has a bachelor's in business administration, is a wife, mother of two, and enjoys sports and doing volunteer work at her children's school in her free time.

How did you come to embrace Islam? Is there any "one" incident you can pinpoint?...

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...