Rule of Those Who Were Promised Heaven
The Righteous Caliphs period. Rule of those who were promised heaven. Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Ali were personally designated by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as "caliphs who were on the straight path, held tightly to truth and justice, and attained perfection." It was a period of rule founded with the compelling power of a religion that first conquered Arabia and then, opening the doors of three con...

Greeting Him on Eternal Mornings
In the Ka’ba... In the Ka’ba which his forefather Abraham built for his Lord, for whom he searched on the earth and in the skies, but found in a place closer to him than his own jugular vein... An old man absorbed in prayer... Those living under the sun take refuge in an anxious night; those hunting at night become downcast under the weight of the impending news. Minutes that seem like an hour......

Conveying the Prophet to Hearts and Minds: Between the Classic a
 - You have been living in the United States for a long time. Could you please briefly inform us on your works and your relations with the Islamic communities? - I have been living in the United States for about 20 years now. I went to Dallas, Texas for the education of my daughters. About 40 years ago a dozen of Muslims from India and Pakistan had gathered here in order to study fields lik...

Conquest: An Invitation to Hearts
The date is still the first year of Umar's caliphate. Arabia, a place that had known no ruler, has become unified by Islam; the hearts and minds are open to the reality of Islam. Arabia now turns to the world geography to present the blessings of the revelation to humanity. The only door that opens to the world from Arabia is to the north, and it is defended by the two superpowers of the period. ...

From A Bedouin Tent to the Byzantine Throne
At a time when Arabia was sitting content with an obscure fate, before the advent of Islam, at a time when the isolated and barren deserts were buried in centuries of isolation, immediately above this region a struggle was taking place that was to shape history. Two great powers, Byzantine and Iran, two emperors who shared the cradle of civilization between them, had begun to fight. Byzantium fed...

The Earth Is My Masjid
Salim. Abu Huzayfa's former freed slave. Three kilometers from Medina in a field used for drying dates, he is leading the prayer with the congregation praying in rows behind him in a haphazardly enclosed structure nailed to the floor. Captured in silence, the crowd beseeches its Lord via the moving lips of this man whose face is turned towards Jerusalem. The pleas transcend the boundaries of this...

Pledge of Allegiance: Holding onto the Prophet
That year Afra of the Hazrec tribe was traveling to Mecca with 12 members of her own tribe. In the quarrelsome city of Yathrib which they left behind, it was thought that they had set out for a pilgrimage. However, there was another power attracting Afra to Mecca. It was a power embodied in a name that was spreading from house to house and ear to ear: Muhammad (pbuh). Her steps speeded up as she ...

“In Islam There Is No Mediator Between Allah and the Servant”
Meyerovitch (1909-1999), a member of an aristocratic French family, after receiving a degree in law and philosophy concentrated her studies on the issues of literature, philosophy and tasawwuf (Sufism). She translated almost all the works of Mawlana and Iqbal into French. These important translations and the live and radio lectures she gave led many French intellectuals to a better understanding ...

The understanding of the Prophet in the 20th Century Islamic wor
The move by European powers undoubtedly gave way to very deep changes in the internal structures of Muslim societies. It appears as though even the bloodshed of thousands of Muslims, during methods of traditional resistance in the face of technical and military supremacy of power, did not bring any benefits. While the Caliphate disappeared with the Ottoman Empire which broke into pieces, the Isla...

We Are Here For Peace of Mind
  Minutes are passing as though they are hours. All eyes are on the clock's second hand, which appears to be as slow as the minute hand. Millions of people over the massive land extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific, are racing against time which doesn't know how to pass. Some, with the excitement of having sacrificed their bodies to their Creator, are about to break their fast while other h...

Revelation: The gateway from the heavens to the earth
Mount Hira seems to be hunched over it's own self. As though it has squatted and become solidified while watching Mecca. Similar to the mountains around it; similar to the city of Mecca which it doesn't take it's eyes off and the land of Hijaz which offers nothing but sand and sharp rocks, Mount Hira, too, awaits time with it's nature that is brusque to mankind. It waits as it conceals its secret...

The Intellectual Journey of a Hadith Scholar: Mustafa Al-A'zami
We present the life of Mustafa Al-A’zami, accompanied by the different cultural tradition to which he belongs. This scholar has made immense contributions to the science of hadith with his innumerable works including some translations into Turkish (Islamic Fiqh and Sunna- Criticism to Orientalist J. Schacht and the History of the Quran). MUHAMMED MUSTAFA AL-A’ZAMI Born in India in 1930, Mustafa a...