The Muslim Ummah
Sectarian violence persists to this day from Pakistan to Yemen and is a major element of friction throughout the Middle East

Battle of Siffin
May–July 657 CE) occurred during the First Fitna, or first Muslim civil war, with the main engagement taking place from July 26 to July 28. It was fought between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I, on the banks of the Euphrates river,

Apologies for misleading title
InshAllah I will be doing a dissertation in my final year on mental health, psychosis and religion.

It would be really great also to give a positive take on how spirituality is necessary for good mental health so

if you know someone who has been through depression or jinn possession or some sort of metal health problem that religion helped them overcome, I WOULD LOVE TO TALK TO THEM. Obviously they can remain anonymous and don't have to see me, I can call them or if that's a problem, we can also do it by email or however they feel comfortable.

pleeeeeeeaseee!

Salaam

So do you celebrate the mawlid/milad?

yes, no, why?

if you do how do you do it?

if not what's the main reasons...

How is it done in your town/city/local mosque?

Lets not get in to sectarian debates... and accuse each other of bidah, kufr etc...

If those who celebrate it and those who don't communicate properly hatred disappears and you start to understand and appreciate each other instead of seeing the other as 'wahabi', 'brelwi', 'deobandi', 'salfi', etc...

wasalaam

Salaam

I will inshallah take part in the Great Manchester Run on 20th May. Its 10km. I aim to get many donations/sponsors for The Revival magazine.

I will appreciate here if EVERYONE made some kind of a donation/contribution.

As we are not a registered charity as yet we dont have a just giving account so any donations would have to be through cheques. If you are interested please email/pm me and I will send you teh correspondence adress to send payments.

I will start my training this weekend...I have almost 4 months..so enough time to get in shape and run the race well.

You can also take part in the Run if you live in the north. Just register on the Great Manchester website.

wasalaam

Britain facing boom in dishonesty
New study reveals dramatic decline in private integrity; Public trust in politicians and business leaders hits fresh low

The British people are becoming less honest and their trust in government and business leaders has fallen to a new low amid fears that the nation is heading for an "integrity crisis".

Lying, having an affair, driving while drunk, having underage sex and buying stolen goods are all more acceptable than they were a decade ago. But people are less tolerant of benefits fraud.

The portrait of a nation increasingly relaxed about "low-level dishonesty" emerges in a major study seen by The Independent. Carried out by the University of Essex

One of the major questions asked by most of the Muslims residing in West is that, shaking hands with a non-mehram woman is permissible or not?

The ‘woman’ in the question includes both Muslim and Non-Muslim women. Though the Eastern countries provide far less places and chances, where non-mehram men and woman can shake hands with each other, on contrary survival is not possible without doing so in the western world. Moreover, shaking hands with a non-mehram woman is regarded as a sin in Islam.

For more details please visit the site below:

http://www.quranreading.com/blog/islam-religion/verdict-of-islam-on-men-...

Abu Issa Mohammed ibn Harun al-Warraq was a 9th Century skeptical scholar and critic of Islam.
He was a mentor and friend of scholar Ibn al-Rawandi in whose work The Book of the Emerald he appears.
Some Muslim sources have described him as being a Muslim and others a Manichaean

Al-Warraq was skeptical of the existence of Allah because "He who orders his slave to do things that he knows him to be incapable of doing, then punishes him, is a fool." Warraq also doubted claims portraying Mohammed as a prophet

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The Kaaba got flooded in 1941

If Allah couldn’t save his own house and land from being flooded how is he going to save me and you from the so called hell fire?

What’s God’s purpose of creating humans?

If his creation is for our benefit, then what is the benefit to those who will burn in hell forever?

If God is self-sufficient all seeing and knowing, and does nothing in vain, isn't creation the height of vanity?

What's the point of God's test when he knows the outcome already? Is it just so that he can have a reason to punish & reward?

God who creates humans knows that a lot of them will fail his test and be tortured without end, can he be called The Most Merciful [Rehman and Rahim]?