Day: April 8, 2013

While Sufyan al Thawri was performing tawaf (the ceremony of going around the Kaaba during the pilgrimage at Mecca) around the House of Allah he saw a man who was saying only salawat (prayers for the Prophet) as he was raising and lowering his feet on the ground and he asked: “What are you doing? Do you not know any other prayers?” The young man answered, “Since you are a foreigner in this town, let me tell you. I was on my way to Hejaz with my father. He died…

Two thousand five hundred years ago, the disciples of Confucius asked him how he would start work and what he would do first if the authority and power was given to him to solve the problems of the country and put things in order. He said, “I would try to make people utter their words properly”. When the disciples asked why he attached such a great importance to the language, he said: “If words are not uttered properly, the words that are heard do not correspond with our intentions. When…

The Sudan Turkish Students Association organized a course under the title of “A Personal Development Course with the perspective of Risale-i Nur” in Khartoum University between June 9, 2012 and July 14, 2012. There was considerable popular interest for the course, which was designed to show participants ways of increasing awareness about their weak and strong points, and thus giving them an increased ability to do good things. The closure of the course, which lasted for over a month, was crowned with a ceremony on July 14, 2012. Many teaching…

Until 1784, the Rohingya Islamic Sultanate, which was founded just 23 years after the conquest of Istanbul (1476), was ruled by 26 kings. It was then occupied by Burma between the years 1784 and 1823. The Burmese government oppressed both Muslim Rohingyans and Buddhist Rakhine people and thousands of Rohingyans had to migrate to India. After the years of British occupation (1823-1937), the Burmese government staged a dark plot with the coordination of the British to make sure that Rohingya could not become an independent state. The Burmese government provoked…

Three friends, a Jew, a Christian and a Muslim, set out on a journey together. When a heavy snowstorm started, they took shelter in a rest-house and waited for the weather to improve. In the rest-house, a dish of delicious halvah made of honey was served to the three friends. All of them wanted to have the halvah for themselves, so finally they came to the conclusion that whoever saw the best dream that night would get the halvah the next day. They slept and woke up early the next…

One day, Sultan Selim the Grim said to his Grand Vizier Piri Muhammad Pasha: “Wherever we have gone so far, we have returned with victory by the grace of Allah. We have increased our treasure and we are rich and powerful. Do you think this powerful state could ever collapse?” Pasha responded to this question as follows: “My great and wealthy Sultan, the state will not collapse given this present situation. But if a different set of circumstances comes about in this state, then it could certainly collapse. For example,…

Although there are some indigenous characteristics in the patterns of consuming food in different Muslim cultures, Islam has laid down some specific and useful codes of conduct for eating which were recommended by the Prophet Muhammad. Muslims have contributed much to the nutritional practices of the world’s many cultures. The Muslim’s nutritional practices are expected to be determined by the injunctions and regulations of Islam, as outlined in the Qur’an and explained by the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). There are more than 1.2 billion Muslims of different nationalities,…

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