Imagine a beautiful garden with plants and flowers. It is essential to remove weeds for the garden to thrive. This is the original meaning of the word zakat. This is the third in a series of articles on Understanding Zakat: Practical Guidance on the Wisdom, Rules, and Etiquette of Giving Zakat. Zakat also purifies your […]

This is the seventh in a series of articles on how make dua or supplication from the seminar The Art of Asking from God by shaykh Faraz Rabbani, shaykh Abdullah Misra and shaykh Ahmed El-Azhary. Fasting, reciting the Quran, night prayer in Ramadan, charity and all different sorts of rituals, each one of them is […]

Running a business in accordance with Islamic principles is a fundamental concern for Muslims in the modern world. This is the eighth in a series of articles from Running a Business Islamically. Allah says: إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ یَأۡمُرُ بِٱلۡعَدۡلِ وَٱلۡإِحۡسَـٰنِ  “Verily Allah commands being wholly fair and just” [Quran, 16:90; tr. Keller, Quran Beheld] Being just is […]

Imagine a beautiful garden with plants and flowers. It is essential to remove weeds for the garden to thrive. This is the original meaning of the word zakat. This is the second in a series of articles on Understanding Zakat: Practical Guidance on the Wisdom, Rules, and Etiquette of Giving Zakat. Zakat is a training […]