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An Introduction to the field of Islamic Bioethics Alim.org – Ahadith are now linked to related Quran Ayaath Alim has released videos about revamped Alim.org Hadiths about Ramadan and fasting Alim.org migrated to new platform Al-Mawlid-un Nabi (The Birth of the Prophet) Mohammed (PBUH) What is Hijra? Benefits of Reading Qur'an Importance of Surah Fatiha The most meaningful gift you can give The End of 2017 is Approaching Fast The Alim Team will be at the ICNA-MAS Convention (Booth 838) Welcoming Muharram, the Month of Allah Ramadan is Approaching Fast, Are you Ready? Make Your Donations Tax Deductible! Rabi-ul-Awwal - A Month with many Islamic Events... Infallibility of Prophet Muhammad(SAW) Safar's meaning and background Tafsir Ibn Kathir Added! Benefits of Fasting Alim Android and iPhone App released.. Assalam-alaikum Everyone!! Check Out Our FAQ Quran Recitation! Alim.org Has Biographies! Arabic Playhouse Has Been Integrated With Alim.org The Alim.org Islamic knowledge Features of Alim Alim Burial, Funeral & Janazah Services Fasting the Six Days of Shawwal Eid al-Fitr 2020 Zakah and Zakat al-Fitr Last TEN Nights of Ramadan and Lailat ul-Qadr نُزوْلُ القُرْان Nuzul Al-Quran (Revelation of Quran) Night The Beauty of the phrase, “Bismillahi Ar-Rahmani Ar-Raheem” Focus on our blessings THE FIRST TEN DAYS OF DHUL HIJJAH Fasting is a Means of Self-Purification Listening to Quran While Doing Other Activities. The Prophet’s (PBUH) Sermon on Ramadan Physiological changes during fasting in Ramadan Isra and al-Mi’raj Lailat al Miraj : The Miraculous Night Journey of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) The Month of Safar The Effect of Holy Quran Voice on Mental Health The cardiac patient during Ramadan and Hajj Salah (Prayer) and its Scientifically proven benefits - Part 3 Salah (Prayer) and its Scientifically proven benefits - Part 2 Salah (Prayer) and its Scientifically proven benefits WHY GET SICK! Islamic New Year, The month of MUHARRAM, And Ashura PARENTS IN OUR LIFE Kusoof us Shams (Solar Eclipse): A time to Raise the Praise of Allah, the Exalted WHAT AWAITS US IN JANNAH Read the sky and find the Qiblah Parenting: Nurture your Child Emotionally, Spiritually and Physically 8 Facts about Prophet Muhammad Mecca - the Holiest City in the World in Islam Never Drink with Your Left Hand; Why it is a Haram in Islam? Why United States still addicted to Pain Killers? Verse of Light Baba; My Soul and My Guide A beautiful Hadith about Ramadan Umrah Pilgrimage: An ever memorable gift from my parents How to Love, Learn and get Inspired! To the Rude Hijabi at Heathrow Ibtihaj Muhammad; First US athlete to Olympics in hijab Can you continue your prayer with an invalid wudu? Learn from Quran the year round Suicide: The Worst Sin in Islam Remember Allah and Wash away your Depression Mother’s day Love Giving for Eternity: A Tunisian waqf history No feets are needed to perform Sujud; It needs a soul How to be a Happy Muslim, Insha Allah: Book Review Seeking Islamic Knowledge Body Image-Reality and Standards Makkah to Madinah: An Epic Composition from Dr Abdullah Al-Kadi To God Eating Habits for This Ramadan The Beautiful Concept of Zakat What is fasting? Welcoming Ramadan Ramadan: The Blessed Guest Choose A Faithful Spouse Young Muslim Girl Represents Youth at UN Crime Prevention Congress Smile at Your Spouse Delaying Marriage is Haram Parenting Can’t Be Outsourced To Technology Allah Says: Beautify Yourself Don’t Shout Your Wife How to Cure Depression & Stress Naturally Unconditional Love Use the Social Media; Stop Misuse Funny – You Look Gorgeous On Your Profile Picture Follow Prophet Muhammad Make your kids happy; not orphans Don’t rush in Salah How to keep away of quarrels in a joint family? Muslim Women and Leadership Challenge Your Blindness Not a Trouble, But a Gift Think Positive; Suicide Is a Great Evil Allah Is the Best Teacher In Fact, No One Cares About Gaza The Accepted Prayer Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan – A Reality Check from Surat Al Qiyāmah – YouTube Aisha RA (Daughter Of Abu Bakr) – A must watch Pleasurable Parenting: Flexible Reward Chart The Bliss of the Moment Motherhood and Anxieties: A Comment on Hitting In Search of Truth! French Convert is Now King’s Guest for Haj!

Date: June 17, 2015

Are you eagerly waiting for the month of Ramadan? If yes, that’s quite awesome and deserves praises. Many Muslims waits the month of Ramadan with mixed feelings. Some love to fast and celebrate Ramadan. Some fear genuinely by thinking of the long hours of fasting. And most of countries will be hot in this season. When you analyze a day of a real Muslim, prayer is a pure but difficult thing to perform. There will be lack of prayer hall at your office or schools. But at any cost, we the Muslims perform prayers everyday without fail. Likewise fasting is very hard and difficult. There will be pain and ache in body parts due to hunger and thirst. But here lies the exact challenge and worship. At the very month of Ramadan, we must learn to live by helping others and giving zakat to the deserving people. If you fast in the month of Ramadan, your sins will be forgiven by Allah. Fasting is a complete act o worship and forgiveness. Make good decisions in this Ramadan such as love Allah, set good goals for future, help poor and love your family.

Precious Gifts a Person Leaves Behind

"The best of what a man leaves behind are three: a righteous child who supplicates for him, ongoing charity the reward of which reaches him, and knowledge that is acted upon after him."

Sunan Ibn Mājah

Angelic Daily Prayers for Generosity

"Every day two angels come down from Heaven and one of them says, 'O Allah! Compensate every person who spends in Your Cause,' and the other (angel) says, 'O Allah! Destroy every miser.'"

Sahih Bukhari

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Ramadan: The Blessed Guest

Ramadan literally termed as the ninth month of calendar and the month of fasting for preaching and reaching Allah. When Ramadan comes, all the Islamic devotees get energized and excited to put up the lanterns and decorations all around to welcome the blessed month. We must welcome Ramadan with neat and tidy home, in neat dress and with prayers. Ramadan is the reminder of renewal of your mind and life to reach Allah. All Islamic devotees must fast from water, food and luxuries. The most important thing to remind in Ramadan is that devotees should fast by keeping the oath that this year I want to grow my character to be more like that of Prophet Muhammad and to cherish goodness to the society.

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Fasting is a Means of Self-Purification

In the name of God, the Merciful, the Beneficent _O Believers! Fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may remain God-fearing. Fast for a certain number of days. But whoever of you is ill, or on a journey, shall fast, instead of the same number of days later on. Those who find fasting a strain too hard to bear may compensate for it by the feeding of a needy person. He who does good of his own account does himself good thereby, for to fast is to do yourselves good, if you but knew it._ (The Cow, “Al-Baqarah” 2: 183-4) Fasting is a manifestation of man&8217;s determined will and his relationship with his Lord which is based on total submission to Him. It is also a demonstration of man&8217;s deliberate disregard of all his physical needs in order to win Allah&8217;s pleasure. These are necessary elements in the training of the believers so that they are able to bear the hardships of the way they have chosen. On both sides of it, there are all sorts of pleasures and temptations which beckon its travellers, trying to force them off their course. Fasting has numerous advantages for health which continue to be discovered as time passes. It goes without saying that Allah takes into consideration the physical constitution of man. Allah relalizes that man requires help and motivation in order to respond to duty and fulfill it regardless of its benefits. It takes time for man to get used to a certain duty and to be convinced of its wisdom. Hence, the decree of fasting starts with the address made to the believers which reminds them of their essential quality, that is, they believe in Allah. They are then told that fasting has always been a duty required of the believers. Its principal aim is their education and training so that their hearts acquire a high standard of sensitivity and purity and that the fear of Allah is well established in them: “Believers, fasting is decreed for you as it was decreed for those before you, so that you may remain God-fearing.” Fear of Allah To fear Allah, then, is the great aim of fasting which looms large before our eyes. As the believers fulfill this duty, in total obedience of Allah and in pursuit of His pleasure, they feel the quality of fearing Allah to be a life within them. This is indeed the quality which guards their hearts against spoiling their fasting by indulging in sin, even if it is of the type which only passes through the mind. Those who are addressed by the Quran are fully aware of the value Allah attaches to this quality of fearing Allah and being conscious of Him. Its acquirement is something for which they yearn. Fasting is a tool with which it is achieved. Hence, the Quran raises it before them as a noble objective. Allah Wishes to Make Things Easy They are then told that fasting is prescribed only for a certain number of days. Exempted from it, however, are the sick until they have recovered, and the travellers until they have settled: “Fast a certain number of days. But whoever of you is sick, or on journey, shall fast instead the same number of days later on.” Taken at its face value, the statement concerning the exemption of the sick and the travellers is general, unrestricted. Hence any illness or journey is a good reason for exemption from fasting, provided that compensatory fasts are held when those reasons no longer obtain. The purpose of the exemption is that it is Allah&8217;s wish to make things easy, not hard, for man. We cannot claim to have full knowledge of the divine wisdom behind relating this exemption to sickness and travelling generally. There may be some hardships which may not immediately appear to us or we may tend to overlook. Since Allah has not attached this exemption to any particular reason, we refrain from making any judgment concerning it. We obey any statement Allah has made, even if its wisdom does not appear immediately to us. What is certain is that there is a wisdom behind it, whether we recognize it or not. Using the Concessions Some people may fear that such an opinion may cause people to neglect their worship for any reason indeed, this is what has prompted Islamic scholars to adopt a more strict attitude and to lay down conditions. Islam does not compel people to be obedient. Its method is to implant in them the consciousness of Allah so that they obey Him. The acquisition of the quality of fearing Allah is the particular aim of this worship. He who tries to use a certain concession made by Allah in order to evade fulfilling a duty is, in the first place, devoid of goodness. 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The Alim.org is an indispensable tool that any Muslim family should be missing. The important features that Alim.org presents: 1. Al-Qur’an: Arabic and English Search; Translations of the meaning of Al-Qur’an by Muhammad Asad, Mohammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik, Mohammad Marmaduke Pickthall and Abdullah Yusuf Ali; Compare Translations; Transliteration, Surah Introductions by Syed Abul A’ala Maududi and Mohammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik; Qur’an Subject Index; Ayah Themes; Duas from the Qur’an; Select: Surah, Ayah, and Juz; and Arabic and English font and size. 2. Authentic Ahadith: Abu-Dawood, Sahih Al-Bukhari, Al-Muwatta, Al-Qudsi, At-Tirmidhi, Sahih Muslim, Fiqh-us-Sunnah; Index: Hadith Narrator and Hadith Subjects; and Prophet’s Last Sermon. 3. Islamic History: Khalifa Abu Bakr, Khalifa Umar Ibn Khattab, Khalifa Uthman Bin Affan, Khalifa Ali Ibn Abi Talib; All Prophets in the Qur'an; and Muslim Scientists. 4. Combined Subjects (over 50,000 topics). Coming soon: 1. Collaborative Editing, Comments, and Discussions on the Meaning of Al-Qur’an. 1. Comments feature with Alim online and facility of religious collaboration. 2. Rating of authors and their works and online reputation building. 3. Ratings of comments and "most popular" type of rankings. 2. Full Arabic Script Quran Recitation-Abdul Basit, English Recitation of Quran Translation, Surah Themes Arabic Recitation of Duas. 3. Questions & Answers: Q&A page called "Ask Alim.org" or something similar that allows questions to be posted and answered by anyone; people can rate questions and answers; similar to StackOverflow.com in ease of use and capabilities. 4. Enhanced Arabic Playhouse online. 5. Video Islam: A Closer Look Video How to Perform Hajj (90 min.) 3-D Animated Walk-through of Haram in Mecca.

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