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Preparing for Ramadan

Preparing for Ramadan

كُتِبَ عَلَيْكُمُ الصِّيَامُ كَمَا كُتِبَ عَلَى الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ أَيَّامًا مَّعْدُودَاتٍ ۚ Decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous – [Fasting for] a limited number of days [Surah Baqarah, 2:183-184] Most of us have spent so many Ramadans but we are still as unprepared for it as […]

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Back to the Basics: Adab

Back to the Basics: Adab

[Following is the transcription of a talk delivered by Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed at the Islamic Centre of NYU during July 2007] Today I thought that we would go back to the basic, which is ‘ibadah. Because a basic or a foundation is something that should not be understood basically. The power of the deen of Islam is that the ‘ulamā […]

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