October 24, 2003 | 27 Shaban 1424 Hijriah
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veiled4allah
veiled4allahMuslim voices (short version) 7
Arash gives some background on the Afghanistan situation in relation to the Rumsfeld memo. alt.muslim looks at honor killings (which are forbidden under Islamic law) in Britain's Muslim community. Muslim Wake Up analyzes the reactions to Mahathir Mohammed's remarks about...
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veiled4allahblack Zion
In my earlier entry on Islam in the African-American Experience, I commented that a comparison of the black Muslim experience to the black Jewish experience would be instructive. Following my own advice, I checked out Black Zion from the library....
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veiled4allahblack pilgrimage to Islam
In an earlier entry, I reviewed the first part of Black Pilgrimage to Islam, by Robert Dannin. The second part of the book tells the stories of a number of African-American individuals or groups and how they came to orthodox...
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A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah al-Haqqah ayah 23
Qutufuha daniyah With low-hanging fruits The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: Al-Bara bin Azib said, "This means close enough for one of them (the people of Paradise) to reach them while...
From: A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah al-Haqqah ayah 22
Fi jannatin aliyah In gardens on high The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn Kathir: It has been confirmed in the Sahih that the Prophet said, "Verily, Paradise has one hundred levels and...
