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Start Reading Now!           To be able to read Quran easily, you’ll need to expand your Arabic Vocabulary. The most painless and effective way of doing this is to try to keep reading from the Quran while you’re still learning new words. Plant Words in Your Head          Reading helps plant words in your head, and seeing … Read more

It’s the recipe of our success. It’s the road-map to Paradise. It shows you how to be a winner. Allah ‘azza wajal tells us: By Time, Mankind is at loss. [Surah al Asr, ayah 1-2] We’re on the clock from the minute we’re born until the day we leave this planet.  But Allah ar-Rahmaan doesn’t … Read more

It will be said to the person who memorized the Quran, ‘Read, ascend and recite with slow, rhythmic chanting just as you used to recite in the worldly life. For verily, your position in Paradise will be at the place of the last verse that you recite.’ [Abu Dawood & Tirmidhi] Getting Our Priorities Straight … Read more

by Shameela Yoosuf Ali Walking Toward My Dreams Once Again I got down from the bus and walked along the famous Akbar bridge of the University of Peradeniya. It was a misty morning and early birds were twittering. For months the university’s doors had remained closed because of never-ending strikes, but now at last they … Read more

By Warda Krimi  O you who have believed, when you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles . . . Allah does not intend to make difficulty for you, but He intends to purify you and complete … Read more

Allah calls Himself Al-Khaaliq— The Creator, or the Maker— on 11 occasions in the Quran. He is the One who creates everything from nothing. Al-Khaaliq invents and perfects according to His will and with the knowledge of what will happen! The Creator, the Maker, the Planner Khaaliq or Khallaaq (intensification) comes from the root khaa-laam-qaaf … Read more

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When we’re attacked by Shaytaan, it’s not enough to just say: A’oodhu billaahi minash-shaytaanir-rajeem! We have to say it begging for Allah’s protection. How many times does it roll off your tongue? Only in your salah or before reciting the Quran? Or do you use this weapon from the Sunnah in more daily life situations? … Read more