2011 04 24
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
Following are the pre-requisites of the prayer:
i. A person must not be in a state of inebriation.
ii. If the person is a women, then she should not be in her state of menstruation or puerperal discharge.Read More ...
2011 04 28
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
The objective of the fast as delineated in the above quoted verses of Sūrah Baqarah is to create the fear of God in a person. The Qur’ānic words used are لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ (that you may attain taqwā). In the parlance…
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2010 08 19
Dr. Shehzad Saleem
Some people think that instead of sacrificing sheep on ‘īd, one can donate an equivalent in money to charities. This notion is not true and requires a little elaboration:
For every human being who believes in Allah, there are…
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2011 04 25
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
It is incumbent upon the Muslims to pray five times a day. The time of each prayer is as follows:
fajr, zuhr, ‘asr, maghrib and ‘ishā.
When the whiteness of the dawn emerges from the darkness of the…
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2011 04 29
Javed Ahmad Ghamidi
The objective of hajj and ‘umrah is the same as their essence and reality viz acknowledgement of the blessings of the Almighty, affirmation of His tawhīd and a reminder of the fact that after embracing Islam we have devoted and…
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