http://www.hidayahblog.com The Truth About Islam Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:04:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en HidayahBloghttp://feedburner.google.com Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Insha-Allah (with the Will of Allah) I, and I suspect all Muslims, would hope to one day go and visit the third most holiest place in Islam, Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. It is a place of great importance in Islam, not only in the past, but ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/07/05/the-masjid-al-aqsa-virtual-tour-a-must-see/ Assalaamu-Alaykum- Peace be Upon you So once again the Daily Mail and Daily Express have done their bit trying stir up a bit of controversy about the operation of Shariah Councils in Britain. This time, they have the added backing of a report published by the Civitas think-tank and written by Denis ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/07/01/another-wave-of-shariah-law-paranoia/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Well I'm sure you've all heard and read about the Romanian families who have decided to quit Northern Ireland as a direct result of the violent racist attacks they endured over the past couple of weeks.  Yes, it seems, that some of the residents of ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/25/no-country-for-romanians/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Well as Muslims, we all know the importance and virtuousness of doing our five daily prayers.  As well as being obligatory for those past the age of puberty, we know that they can be a means of forgiveness of our sins, acceptance of our Duas ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/21/video-of-the-week-the-importance-of-salah/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Throughout the course of our lives, we all have lots of relationships.  Relationships with different people, different sorts of relationships, we even build up relationships with inanimate objects like our nice car, our holiday home or something as mundane as our Blackberry phone (I am ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/17/some-relationship-advice/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Okay, so everybody knows that Muslims cannot drink alcohol - but do we know why? Well one of the verses in the Qur'an about it states that in alcohol, there is some good and there is some bad.  However, it also proclaims that the harm outweighs ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/11/the-good-the-bad-and-the-alcohol/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Although I tend to keep myself away from blogging about politics generally, every once in a while, even I have to jump on the bandwagon and discuss what everybody else is discussing! And so to President Obama's speech in Egypt.  Hmm, you can certainly say it ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/08/interesting-times-for-mr-obama/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Well I have read the following story before, but this is the first time I have seen a video made about it..... What am I talking about?  Well click on the video below and you will see and interesting video about the father, the son and ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/06/the-father-the-son-and-the-sparrow/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you Now as we all know for the last few weeks, all we have heard is MPs and their extravagant expense claims. Many are being asked to stand down from their post and many are now being investigated further - whichever way you look at it, ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/06/03/honesty/ Assalaamu-Alaykum - Peace be Upon you As I was going to the Masjid (Mosque) to pray Asr yesterday, I met one of my friends from way back.  Quickly walking into the Masjid, I asked him how he was (as you do!), to which he replied with the strangest comment. He said, 'Oh ... http://www.hidayahblog.com/index.php/2009/05/31/work-hard-play-hard-and-pray-harder/