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Clarifying Ramadan Fasting Practices

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ O you who believe! Fasting is prescribed for you, as it was prescribed for those before you, so that you...

‘Leave me, as I leave you’

[dropcap]V[/dropcap]ery often in conversations the following retort is heard: ‘The Prophet (peace be upon him) did not do that; the Companions did not do that.’  It is often marshalled in lines of argumentation concerning many topics,...

Deen by Soundbite

…A time will come upon men, when their men of understanding (fuqahā) are few but their Qur’ān reciters are many; when the letters of the Qur’ān are guarded carefully but its boundaries are lost, when...