A Ramadan Message by Shaykh Ahmad Saad
In this video, Shaykh Ahmad Saad talks about the importance of Ramadan, how we should behave in it and to welcome it. He also suggests that we dedicate our time & efforts this Ramadan to our parents & the elderly.
Event Review: Safinah’s Ramadan Resolutions Day 1
[box_dark]What: Ramadan Resolutions Day 1 Where: Singapore Expo When: 14th July 2012 Who: Ustaz Nuzhan, Ustaz Mizi Wahid, Ustaz Yazid By: Safinah Institute[/box_dark] Safinah Institute organised a 2-day seminar titled Ramadan Resolutions, featuring a total of 7 young speakers. On the first day, the speakers were Ustaz Nuzhan Bin Abdul Halim (the Executive Imam at […]
LGBT Muslims: Starting a Conversation
Several days ago, a popular Muslim magazine called “Aquila Asia” posted an article titled “Freedom to Love”. The article related the stories of some LGBT Muslims in their struggle to reconcile their faith & sexual orientation. Aquila Asia received many hateful & vitriolic comments because of it, and I can understand why. In the deluge […]
Event Review: Adab Towards Working Life
[box_dark]What: Lecture “Adab Towards Working Life” Where: NUS Who: Ustaz Zhulkeflee Hj Ismail By: NUSMS, NTUMS, APEX and AAM[/box_dark] Organised by the NUS Muslim Society, the NTU Muslim Society, APEX and AAM (Aspire Achieve through Mentorship), Adab Towards Working Life was aimed at the graduating classes and alumni of both NUS and NTU as they […]
Solat – What’s in it for me?
Ramadan approaches and with it comes the promise of blessings, mercy and forgiveness for those who have hope in reward from Allah. Ramadan is like a great amplifier: it takes something that would have otherwise been common or ordinary and makes something grand and extraordinary out of it. Ramadan is the respite all Muslims so […]
“Fasting of the Tongue” by Ustaz Leyaket Ali
Allah SWT says in Alqur’an, surah AlHujurat verse 12: “And do not spy or backbite each other. Would one of you like to eat the flesh of his brother when dead? You would detest it. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is accepting of repentance and Merciful.” The tongue is a means to good or evil. […]
The Month of Ramadan & Its Virtues
In a narration recorded by Imam Ahmad on the authority of Salman Al Farisi (may Allah be pleased with him) who said: The Messenger of Allah (S) addressed us on the last day of the month of Sha’ban and said, “O men, there has come upon you a great month, a blessed month, in […]
Event Review: Spiritual Realities of Ramadan with Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf
[box_dark]What: “Spiritual Realities of Ramadan” Who: Habib Kadhim al-Saqqaf, Lecturer at Darul Mustafa, Tarim, Yemen. When: 8th July 2012, 745PM Where: SimplyIslam.sg By: SimplyIslam.sg[/box_dark] [quote]“Every type of remembrance of Allah – has an effect.”[/quote] In this lecture, Habib Kadhim addresses the realities of the soul within its physical embodiment – providing an intimate perspective of […]
Should Parents Allow Their Children To Watch Anak Metropolitan?
So the current season of Anak Metropolitan is almost over (We’re down 12 episodes and I suspect the show will be ending soon since there’s not much left to explore content-wise, unless they’re about to expose the little known gangster-underworld happening in kindergartens next – they’ve already infiltrated secondary school kids and primary school kids […]
What Prayer Means to Me
The morning hurried by like a strong wind turning the pages of an open book. Before I knew it, several emails were sent, I had swallowed a cup of Milo or two (not a coffee-drinker), and the clock now showed 2:15PM. “O dunya, thou art so tiring,” I shook my head as I finally took […]
Award-Winning Playwright, Wajahat Ali, on Islamophobia, Art & Muslims
Wajahat Ali is a playwright, journalist, attorney, humorist and consultant. His award-winning play, “The Domestic Crusaders” [www.domesticcrusaders.com], is one of the first major plays about the American Muslim experience originally premiering at the Thrust Stage of the Tony award winning Berkeley Repertory Theater to universal acclaim in 2005 and making its New York premiere on […]
Event Review: Sh Ahmad Saad’s “Etiquette Before Knowledge”
[box_dark]What: Lecture “Etiquette Before Knowledge” Who: Shaykh Ahmad Saad Where: Singapore Expo Max Atria When: 22nd June 2012 By: SimplyIslam.sg[/box_dark] Despite the relatively short length of his lecture, Shaykh Ahmad Saad spoke at great length on the relationship between etiquette (adab) and knowledge, focusing especially on the practices to be adopted by one seeking to […]
Secularisation: Coming To a Malay Television Channel near You
In Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, the future is depicted as one where the masses are controlled – via the use of science and technology – to care only for superficial pleasures, in the process giving up their personal freedoms. Although Huxley, nearly blind at 16 because of an illness, wrote the novel in 1932, […]
Interview with Dr Bilal Hassam: Extraordinary Muslim Youth
Dr Bilal Hassam (UK) is a medical doctor, youth leader, interfaith youth ambassador, khatib and activist. He visited SimplyIslam in April 2012 and Muzlimbuzz got a chance to sit down and have a chat with this multi-talented man! In this video, we ask him: 1) What are some of the lessons you’ve learned while working […]
Preparing For Ramadan with Al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz
Preparing For Ramadan with Al-Habib Umar bin Hafiz (May Allah Preserve Him) said:[1] “Make sure you end Sha’ban in the best of states, for Allah records the rewards that we will receive and the supererogatory actions that we will perform before Ramadan enters. He also records the bad deeds and the wretchedness of those that […]
