The scrupulousness which a believer displays towards his religious observance makes his faith apparent. He enthusiastically establishes salat, fasts and performs ritual washing made compulsory by Allah throughout the course of his life. Allah has described sincere Muslims’ enthusiasm for religious observances in many verses. One of these reads: Those who are steadfast in seeking…
Allah is Near to whoever supplicates Him and the necessary means for answering Du’aa [supplication]. Allah Almighty says in the Qur’an: “And when My slaves ask you (O Muhammad) concerning Me, then (answer them), I am indeed Near (to them by My Knowledge). I respond to the invocations of the supplicant when he calls on…
By Lylah M. Alphonse During early voting in Southfield Township in Michigan on Monday, even a near-death experience couldn’t keep one elderly voter away from the polls. Ty Houston was filling out his absentee ballot at the township offices when an elderly woman near him started screaming. “I was filling out the form as were…
A MAN who tried to commit suicide by throwing himself out of a window has been saved after landing on a woman on the street below. The 49-year-old man, who had tried to kill himself several times previously, had jumped from the second-floor of his apartment in a pedestrian street in the centre of Verdun, Meuse. He…