It is a command from your Lord,
To the believers,
Ramadan a month of mercy,
Refrain from eating and drinking,
Refrain from looking at which is forbidden,
Lower your gaze,
Don't look at anything except that is permitted to you,
Refrain from talking about others,
Every corner...
RECLAIMING OUR RELIGION
Being a muslim we need to reclaim our religion from the prongs of a strict interpretation, we are witnessing attempts to make this strict ideology the one and only accepted face of Islam. We have seen what...
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(Seeking judgement from other than Allah and His Messenger is hypocrisy)
Allah the Most Exalted said: "Have you seen those (hypocrites) who claim that they believe in that which has been sent
down to you, and...
THE ENDOWED MONTH
Oh Ramadan,
the birth month of Humul kitab,
When ajar is the gates of paradise.
And shut the doors of hell
A moon of redemption.
Begin it is, with rain of mercy
Now in it end (Alhamdulilah)
Oh! Do well to, fetch it, beg...
"An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force - Newton's First law of motion."
Yesterday, I got into...
It is interestingly understood that the activities of some dissident militant groups in Ala-Igbo operate within the guidelines of Ohanaeze Ndigbo. Under the guise of actualisation of sovereign Biafra or clamour for national wealth equity distribution, MASSOB, IPOB, et...
In The World Of Nafs
A day in the world of Nafs
so much privilege I've got
to seek among the dwellers
one of which I'll love to have
In that world they are just three
Mut-ma-in-na, self at peace
Am-ma-ra, the opposite
and reproachful Law-wa-ma
First, to...
The Muslim community in Gbongan Town are full of excitement and thanks to Allah as fifty-two non-Muslims voluntarily dumped their faith for Islam. Gbongan is a large town in Osun State. It is also the headquarters of the Aiyedaade...
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The New Testament
Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read’st black where I read white. —William Blake, The Everlasting Gospel
Of course, Blake’s sentiment in the quote above is nothing new. The New
Testament contains enough inconsistencies to have spawned a dizzying variety of
interpretations, beliefs and religions, all allegedly Biblebased. And so, we find one
author offering the amusing observation:
You can and you can’t,
You shall and you shan’t,
You will and you won’t,
And you will be damned if you do,
And you will be damned if you don’t.
Why such variance...
The washing and shrouding of the deceased is an obligatory duty enjoined upon all Muslims in the community. However, if it is performed by some, the
other members are cleared of the obligation. The person selected to wash and shroud...
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