Many years ago, while waiting for my father to pick me up from school, I sat in front of the Masjid playground, mesmerized by the sand all around me. It was a sunny day, and the sand glittered in the sun like gold. As I picked the shimmering golden beads of sand up and let them slip through my fingers, I felt like I was the richest man in the world…
By Ikhlas Hassen Got to give the Khutbah? Want to start a Halaqah? Use these tips to increase your speech delivery skills! 1) Thikr- Remembrance of Allah (subhanahu wa tala) Malik related to me that he heard that Isa ibn Maryam used to say, “Do not speak much without the mention of Allah for you will harden your hearts. A hard heart is far from Allah, but you do not know. Do not look at the wrong actions of people as if you were lords. Look at your wrong...
Have you ever gone through hundreds of Google pages trying to find a certain hadith or ayah, and have only been left with “Izlam is a violent religion” and other inaccurate information? I posed my thought and Alhamdulillah got some great responses.
It’s time to bring some Ihsaan to our productions. For part 1 of this two-part article, which speaks about video taping, see here. As Muslims, we always have to try to do our best in anything we do. For, as stated by the Messenger of Allah (Salallahu ‘Alayhi Wasallam), “Verily, Allah has prescribed proficiency in all things.” (Hadith #17, An-Nawawi 40 Hadith). Therefore, whatever we produce, we must produce it with Ihsaan (translated as excellence or proficiency). Therefore, we can’t have those videos with boring titles, horrible audio and...
No doubt the medium of video is spreading like wild-fire all through the internet. The real question is: How can this medium be used for the sake of Allah? In the past years, many Muslim video productions have been done Alhamdulillah (DVDs, VHS, etc.). However, quite a few failed in engaging its Muslim viewers, and the effect of the message was lost. In this iTech post, we will discuss a few techniques on video taping a production that will bi-ithnillah (with Allah’s permission) improve your video and draw interest...
UPDATE: If you would like an alternate (and perhaps easier) way of referencing your Qur’anic Ayahs, you can use Quran.com, click on a verse, and you’d get your personalized page. However, we recommend you use the following for Ahadith or...
To help us to stay consistent throughout Ramadan, here is a collection of videos for every single day in Ramadan, presented by Shaykh Muhammad AlShareef. The series is entitled “Heart Wheel Journal” and is based off of a 30-day Ramadan journal that one can use throughout the month. Alhamdulillah, it has become digitized into an online software. MYM has compiled the following available videos from YouTube into an organized collection to make it easier for one to find each day’s videos. We pray that these videos prove to be...
By Abdul-Basit Khan Hey everybody, Ramadaan is really close now – there’s only like 1 or 2 days left!!! Can you believe it? You know, this is the time for us to start doing sincere Tawbah to Allah, (repentance from our sins, or returning back to Allah) because the Prophet mentioned in an authentic hadeeth that, ورمضان إلى رمضان “A Ramadaan to the next Ramadaan, كفارة لما بينهن إذا اجتنبت الكبائر …expiates all the sins (a person may have done) in between as long as the person avoids the...
When you hold the door open for a person walking up to the door of a building, who is it for? When you say “yarhamukumullah” to a person who sneezes, do you truly mean “may Allah have mercy on you” with a pure intention, or do you say it in order to give you the semblance of a righteous person? Recently in class, we have studied Macbeth, a tale of deceit and betrayal, by William Shakespeare. This tale follows one paramount theme; “things are not what they appear.” This theme...
By Abdul-Basit Khan Just recently, I was asked about a topic known to all Muslims. However, in our daily lives, we tend to many times forget about this issue. In terms of practicality, we seem to forget how preposterously simple this act is and how we should really be doing it more often. Therefore, I decided to discuss it here in my article. I was asked, “How does one exactly perform Tawbah (the Arabic word for “repentance”)?” Is it a very difficult and long process where one has to go...
