Event Review: Sacred Path of Love 2012 – The Meaning of Servanthood – Day 1
[box_light]What: Sacred Path of Love 2012 Day 1 Where: Masjid Sultan Auditorium When: 1 December 2012 Who: Imam Abdoulaye Ndaw, Shaykh Dr Thaika Shuaib, Shaykh Afeefuddin Al-Jailani, Ustaz Fizar Zainal By: Sout Ilahi[/box_light] Now in its third year, Sout Ilaahi’s annual conference The Sacred Path of Love brings together scholars from Singapore and around the world […]
‘My Jihad’ Bus Ads Launch In Chicago
A campaign to educate the public about the Islamic meaning of Jihad launched last week in Chicago. City buses and trains will carry advertisements from the “MyJihad Educational Campaign,” sharing the idea of Jihad – which means a personal struggle for improvement – that most Muslims practice. It is an independent project created by Ahmed Rehab, the […]
Khutbah Reflections: The Key to a Close Relationship with Allah
Khutbah Reflections: Inculcating the Attribute of Al-Wafaa’ in Ourselves – The Key to a Close Relationship with Allah and with other Human Beings. This is for the Khutbah on 14 December 2012 [divider] A commitment isn’t something to be taken lightly. It is a promise that we have made and we are obliged to fulfil […]
Gratitude is Not for Wimps
UC DAVIS (US) — A research team studying the positive effects of daily gratitude says it can change people’s lives—but it takes mental toughness and discipline. The payoff, however, can be significant. Compared with those who dwell on daily hassles, people who take time instead to record their reasons for giving thanks exercise more regularly, […]
UN Appeals to Singapore to take Burmese Refugees
Singapore has denied entry to a Vietnamese-registered cargo ship carrying 40 Burmese asylum seekers who were plucked from the sea after their boat sank in the Bay of Bengal. The United Nations refugee agency has appealed to Singapore to reverse its decision to refuse entry to 40 Burmese asylum seekers who have been stranded on […]
Songkok Styles? Choices for the fashion-forward Muslim man
As a Muslim man, I often envy my sisters in faith. This is because they have far more choices in terms of fashion. Even as naysayers claim that dressing modestly and wearing the hijab is an imposition upon Muslim women and an infringement of their rights, scores of style blogs and magazines sprout up to […]
Ummi at Play – Muslim Mothers With a Cause
This Sunday, 16th December 2012, a community of mothers will see the culmination of their month-long efforts manifest in a Charity Playdate at Kowabunga! Education Centre at Blk 361, Bukit Batok St 31. It will take place from 11 am to 4 pm. Moved by the crisis in Gaza – especially mothers who lost their […]
U.S to Recognize Syrian Rebels
Washington, Dec 12, 2012 (AFP) – President Barack Obama proclaimed Syria’s newly reframed opposition as the “legitimate” representative of the nation’s people Tuesday, in the most significant US intervention in a brutal civil war. As Washington cranked up pressure on beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad, the Obama administration also blacklisted the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Nusra Front, which officials […]
Khutbah Reflections: Instilling the Quality of Al-Hubb – Love and its relation to Faith
The khutbah on Jumu’ah this time (7th December 2012) spoke on something that is close to our hearts. Well, in it actually. It can give us strength and bring out the best in us. That something is love but not just any kind of love; it is the one that transcends all others: it is […]
The Forgotten Graves of Singapore
[imagebrowser id=9] [divider] The images in this album are only 13 out of the 50 pictures. Please click here to view the full album. [divider] Behind the mosque that is Masjid Pusara Aman, at the back of Civil Defence Academy’s MT Line, lies a lesser known cemetery or grave complex. Still within the confines of the […]
Brothers in the Deen
Paying tribute to a big brother, both by blood and religion “Whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day, let him maintain the bonds of kinship.” The Prophet Muhammad, (Peace be upon him) as narrated by Bukhari I was never really friends with my abang (big brother in Malay). I know that seems like a […]
Food Review: Manhattan Fish Market
If you are looking for an American style seafood menu, look no more as you might just have an outlet of this well known restaurant in your neighborhood shopping mall. I had lunch at the Manhattan Fish Market in Causeway Point last Friday and as I was so eager, or should I say famished, I […]
The Life of Sayyidina Mus’ab ibn ‘Umair
InshaAllah, Muzlimbuzz will be featuring different Companions of the Prophet (S) regularly. We had our first feature on a disabled Companion who still fought in battles alongside the Prophet (S), Sayyidina Amr bin Jamuh RA. Today’s feature is on a youth named Sayyidina Mus’ab ibn Umair RA, whose story will make you weep. [divider] Khabbaab ibn Al-Arat narrated: […]
Must we save holy sites in Mecca and Medina?
“He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given wisdom has certainly been given much good. And none will remember except those of understanding.” (Qur’an, 2: 269) My friend Cassamjee visited Jerusalem. After Al Aqsa, he went around sightseeing Jerusalem and he came to a place where Issa ibn Maryam (RA) is […]
99 Names Series – Ar-Rahman (The Most Gracious)
Muzlimbuzz has a series called “The 99 Names of Allah” where writers & readers reflect on one Name from the 99 Beautiful Names of Allah and talk about why that particular Name is significant to them, or how they have seen that Name manifest in their lives. If you would like to submit your writing […]
