Azkar After Prayers

Azkar

Ka'bah and its design

The approximate location of 100 Countries in relation to the Ka'bah

Beautiful View of Kaaba on 03-11-2014 Contributed by Amjad Mamoor

Cultural buying and Selling and the muslims contribution

This idea of "buying" and "selling" in the cultural sense, and of the negative role of the present-day Muslim world in this respect, was later taken up and further developed by that eminent Algerian writer, the late Malik bin Nabi , who stressed the fact -first pointed out in this book -that, having lost their one-time creativity, the Muslims have not only become utterly dependent on Western goods but have also become mere "buyers" of Western technology and organizational methods as well as of Western social and political concepts, without becoming "sellers", i.e., without transmitting any positive impulses of their own to the West in return.

Muhammad Asad in his book "Islam at the Crossroad"

Hadees Shareef

It is also a charity to utter a good word

(Al-Bukhari and Msulim)

Asmaye Elahi

Ahadees Nabvi from Sahih Al Bukhari

Riaz ul Jannah in Masjid Nabvi

Masjid Al Haram: Bab-i-Abdul Aziz

Religious beliefs are communicated to man by his cultural environment

Religious belief and unbelief are very rarely a matter of argument alone. In some cases the one or the other is gained by way of intuition or, let us say, insight; but mostly it is communicated to man by his cultural environment. Think of a child who from his earliest days is systematically trained to hear perfectly rendered musical sounds. His ear grows accustomed to discern tone, rhythm and harmony; and in his later age he will be able, if not to produce and to render, at least to understand the most difficult music. But a child who during the whole of its early life never heard anything resembling music would afterwards find it hard to appreciate even its elements. It is the same with religious associations. As there possibly are some individuals to whom nature has completely denied an "ear" for music, so -possibly but not probably -there are individuals who are completely "deaf" to the voice of religion. But for the overwhelming number of normal human beings the alternative between religious belief and unbelief is decided by the atmosphere in which they are brought up. Therefore the Prophet said: "Every child is born in original purity, and it is but his parents who make him a 'Jew', a 'Christian' or a 'Zoroastrian'" (Sahih al-Bukhari)

Islam at the Crossroad
Muhammad Asad

Western Education of Muslim youth by Muhammad Asad

Western education of Muslim youth is bound to undermine their will to believe in the message of the Prophet, their will to regard themselves as representatives of the religiously-motivated civilization of Islam. There can be no doubt whatever that religious belief is rapidly losing ground among our "intelligentsia" who have absorbed Western values.

The explanation of this estrangement is not that the Western science with which they have been fed has furnished any reasonable argument against the truth of our religious teachings, but that the intellectual atmosphere of modern Western society is so intensely anti-religious that it imposes itself as a dead weight upon the religious potentialities of the young Muslim generation.

Islam at the crossroad by Muhammad Asad

Rammi in Mina

Hajj 2014

Masjid i Nabvi