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Organize Your Life during Ramadan |
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Written by Dr. Hamid Slimi
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Monday, 02 August 2010 21:41 |
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As we are spiritually preparing for Ramadan, I would like to suggest the following program to help everyone – including those of us who go to work early or to school – have an enjoyable, organized, and well-spent month.
Many people think that fasting demands a tremendous amount of energy. Therefore, they convince themselves that many of their usual activities should be reduced or suspended, that many projects should be postponed until the following month. I would like to suggest here a simple schedule, as some brothers and sisters have asked me about how to organize life during this blessed month. This schedule can be applied at any time of the year.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 18:57 |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 02 August 2010 21:19 |
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In Ramadan, the ninth month in the lunar calendar, all Muslims enter a season of intensive worship characterized by fasting, praying, giving charity, and training in self-control and self-discipline.
Ramadan became sacred when the first verses of the Holy Qur’an were revealed to Muhammad (pbuh) for the first time around 610 CE. Muslims have been fasting in Ramadan for more than 1,428 years, since God decreed: Oh you who believe! Fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may learn self-restraint (2:183).
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 18:56 |
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Who Should Be In Charge Of Canada’s Muslims? |
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Written by Dr. David Liepert
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Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:00 |
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Probably the most distressing thing about the Times Square Bomber Faizal Shazad to me was how easily his faith was warped into something that could justify killing innocent people. Faizal went from being privileged, peaceful and pretty much non-religious (his friends remember he spent most of his time in night-clubs and didn’t pray) to being a violent radical in two easy steps.
In 2006, profoundly troubled by rampant injustice and Muslim suffering Faisal e-mailed his friends, “Can you tell me a way to save the oppressed? And a way to fight back when rockets are fired and Muslim blood flows?” Then, in 2007 he told them, “You must have a Sheikh, to understand the Quran!” and, “If you have no Sheikh, your Sheikh is Shaitan!” and, “my Sheikhs are in the field!”
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 04 August 2010 18:43 |
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A Reflection: Are we Professors or Confessors? |
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Written by Ansar Khan
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Saturday, 10 July 2010 00:00 |
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 I begin by praying that God’s peace be with each of you today and always.
At a recent Jumu’ah khutbah in Toronto, the khateeb asked the congregation a question: when are we going to stop professing and start confessing? My immediate thought was that confession suggests negativity as we automatically assume that we’re in the wrong and have something to confess.
But let’s take a look at this question from a different approach; one that will help us to take a closer look at ourselves through some introspective analysis. The Webster Dictionary defines the verb to profess to mean “to declare or admit (something) freely in words only”. By contrast, the verb to confess means “to tell or make known, to declare and acknowledge, or to give evidence of something”.
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Written by Dr. David Liepert
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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 00:00 |
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 Last month I wrote about how Muslims can lead everyone -Muslim and non-Muslim alike- towards the peace our Lord, our Creator, Allah intends for us all. But that begs an obvious question: What should Muslims do when someone doesn’t want to be led?
Islamophobes and radical Jihadi Islamists both claim that Muslims are commanded to “fight for the sake of Islam”. However, that flies in the face of both the Holy Qur'an - Allah’s command, “Let there be no coercion in religion” (2:256) - and the Sunnah. The calm, peace-and-dialogue promoting example of Muhammad (peace be upon him) is hard to ignore.
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