The experience of fasting is like none other. I believe that there are four levels of fasting; the fasting of appetites, the fasting of the senses, the fasting of the mind and the fasting of the heart. Fasting of appetites involves abstaining from intake of solid food...
Since Jesus fasted, his true followers will also fast, if they indeed follow his teachings. He said: “If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed” (John 8:31). People had complained to Jesus...
It is interesting to note that the majority of Jesus’ disciples were fishermen and their clothes would have been white due to their daily toil. The whiteness could then be extrapolated to include the whitening of people’s hearts through...
The traditions that are established as a Christian celebration don’t really represent Jesus’ teaching. How does a bunny play into the prophet’s message? And why are eggs a central symbol of the celebration?
The qiblah was not always oriented towards Makkah. The first Muslims prayed towards the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Around sixteen months after Prophet Muhammad and his followers migrated from Makkah to the city of Madinah, the qiblah was changed to the Ka’bah.
Many non-Muslims, around the world, are inspired by the spirit of Ramadan and choose to fast as well in solidarity with Muslims. The beauty found within the annual month of fasting, and the sheer joy that comes with breaking the fast every day just after...
We are given the impression that it is serious, perhaps even beyond explanation. It is, we are then told, the star of piecing brightness. A star whose light penetrates or cuts through the darkness.
You may have heard about Ramadan as a time during which followers of Islam abstain from food and drink each day from dawn until sunset, but there's much more to this month than simply not eating or drinking. Ramadan is the 9th month of the Islamic...
The Quran is the sacred scripture of Islam, and in it, more than ninety verses spread across fifteen chapters discuss Jesus. Three chapters are named after their reference to Jesus: the third chapter of Quran, ‘The Family of Imran,’ is named after the father of Mary...
When is this doctrine of turning the other cheek to be applied? How practical is it in the world we live in? If one always turns the cheek, what then is the role of justice and ending oppression and tyranny.
Al-Aqsa mosque is the only mosque mentioned in the Quran after the sacred mosqued in Makkah. It was the place where the Prophet Muhammad ascended to heavens in the Night Journey. God said: Exalted is He who took His Servant by night from al-Masjid al-Haram to al-Masjid al- Aqsa...
The Angel Gabriel is considered the most important of all the angels in Islam. In the Quran, the angel is called Jibreel or the Holy Spirit. The Angel Jibreel’s main responsibility is to communicate the Words of Allah to His prophets. It is Jibreel who revealed the Quran to the Prophet Muhammad.
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