What is Jihad ~ Shaykh Hamza Yusuf

An amazing and powerful little talk by Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, it really bought tears to my eyes, its a beautiful message and one I hope as many people as possible can witness.  w'Salaam ~ Peace

Generalisation and its resulting problems.

Its always good to begin with a definition when using somewhat ambiguous terms such as the one in the title.  

Generalise - generalize: draw from specific cases for more general cases

Generalisation in a practical sense means to take a single action of a single person and to presume all people act that way, it is usually done in the context of a group within society whether that be a political, a religious or even a racial group. Such examples include all Jews are Zionists or all Muslims are terrorists.

The Urban Jungle

A few days ago I uploaded the next video in the prophecies of Islam series. This video titled The Urban Jungle deals with a Hadith concerning a sign of the last day. Essentially the Hadith says that the last day will not come until poor 'barefoot' 'shepherds' will compete in the construction of tall buildings. We can see this happening in Dubai and across the gulf states. More in the video.

The Truth About Mountains

The next video in the Prophecies of Islam series has been released. Titled The Truth About Mountains. This video is about Mountains and how they are structured and what their purpose is. The Quran states that the Mountains are like stakes in the Earth keeping it stable and science proved that to be true in the 20th century at least 1300 years after it was mentioned in the Quran.

The Moon and the Mountains

A few days ago I released another video as part of the Prophecies of Islam series that I'm working on. That was the second video of that series titled The Miracle of Moonlight. In that short video I examined what the Quran says about the Moon and its source of light, the wording used to describe the moon and what science says about the subject. Though some among the ancients may have suggested that the Moon merely reflected the light of the Sun the Quran 1400 years ago stated this as a fact and scientists have proven this to be fact.

Prophecies of Islam

Prophecies of Islam is a A series of short films exploring the scientific explanations and predictions in the Quran and prophetic Hadith. Looking at how they have been proven true by Science and History today as well as exploring those prophecies that have yet to fulfilled.

Church Massacre

...If God had not driven some people back by means of others, 

monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques, where God's name is

mentioned much, would have been pulled down and destroyed. God will

certainly help those who help Him - God is All-Strong, Almighty.

(Quran - 22:40)

At least 52 were killed after Al Qaeda militants attacked a church in Baghdad, killed the priest and held the worshippers in the church as hostages.

52 Weeks and 39 Vidoes later...

Its been 1 Year 1 Month and 2 Days since I began this YouTube project of uploading the entire Quran with English audio translation. So far 39 surahs down and 75 more to go. The last upload was Surah Al Qiyama which was uploaded just over 2 weeks ago.

This entire project began because of a CD that a local masjid was distributing, the CD was of Quranic recitation by Sheikh Abdur Rahman As Sudais and Sheikh Su'ud Ash Shuraim with English audio translation.