Hajj literally means “head for, visit, constantly go and visit an important and honorable place.” As an Islamic term hajj means the worship done in the Dhul-Hijjah (month) of pilgrimage which is one of the lunar months by accomplishing some religious duties in accordance with their conditions and methods properly in Qa’ba, Arafat, Muzdalifa and Mina. Also Hajj Rituals are called “Manasiku’l Hajj”. And those who visit those holy places in certain times are called “Hajji”. Hajj is the fifth pillar of [...]

ISLAMABAD – Khubaib Foundation, the local philanthropic organization and Pakistan based country partner of the Turkish Insani Haq-o-Hurriyat (IHH) on Tuesday arranged for Quran recitation and congregational prayers in its head office and educational institutions for the salvation of the scores of people who died in recent the Turkey earthquake. According to press release, Khubaib Foundation staff besides students of Khubaib Madrassa Tehfez-ul-Quran recited passages from the Holy Quran and prayed for the bereaved families and those who died in [...]

Upon the fall of Ottoman State and the scientific developments in the west, some western scholars started criticizing Islam. They worked hard and found the so called untrue or illogical pillars, verses, hadiths, and implementations of Islam. It included many contrasting things with the science according to them. One of the things they attacked most was the “mutashabih hadiths.” Prophet Muhammad ASW told some hadiths in the form of comparisons and metaphors. Many of them were about the signs of [...]

When the Cold War ended, a problem that the Western Bloc needed to handle with left behind: Fighting Muslim groups that were established and used against soviets as proxies during the Cold War. The establishment of these groups were overlooked on purpose if not supported against “godless soviets” by the West during the Afghan war. Those fighters who were mostly from Arab countries used their experience and engaged with violent acts against their ‘un-Islamic’ administrations after they returned back their [...]

Italian author Umberto Eco who was born in 1932 says in his book The Confessions of a Young Novelist that he had answered the question “How did you write your novels?” as “From left to right” . Writing from left to right is also the way we are used to and we do not have the necessary means to evaluate its accuracy. And writing from right to left, the way our ancestors wrote Turkish with the letters of Islam for [...]

The 4th International Conference on Halal and Healthy Products was held on October 13-14th 2011, in Istanbul. The organizer of the conference, GIMDES (Association for the Inspection and Certification of Food and Supplies), is a “Halal Productions Research Institute.” The topics covered during the conference were as follows: Implementation and Application of Unified Halal Standards Worlwide Halalness of Transgenic Foods Halal Certification and related problems in non-Muslim countries Halal Products Trade between Muslim Countries Affects of vegetable oils and margarines on Human [...]

There are times when we feel ourselves weak, helpless and desperate. It happens for a reason. Sometimes our loved ones pass away, sometimes we lose our health. In one way or another, life reminds us that it, itself, is a hard path of examination. And in this long path the only way to get through the hardships, the key word and solution is “Patience.” In a detailed definition patience means “the power of suffering with fortitude, uncomplaining endurance of evils [...]

Egoism literally means excessive concern for oneself with or without exaggerated feelings of self-importance or the doctrine that individual self-interest is actual motive of all conscious action.[1] I don’t know if you have ever read a personal development book but I certainly have read a few and evaluated most of them myself even if I don’t read them. I realize one thing that more and more people are starting to dwell on reading personal development books and doing drugs in [...]

Many people, including the Turkish, think that Ottoman Turkish is different from today’s Turkish language. The reason behind this is that Ottoman Turkish is written with Arabic letters, which I call Islamic letters. Latin letters has been used for Turkish language since 1928; before that, Islamic letters had been used for almost a thousand years. Since the alphabet change we have lost our direct connection with the past, our ancestors, Ottomans. Although I knew how to read Ottoman Turkish for [...]

Am I suggesting that the life of a nonbeliever must be one of dreary desperation without cause for hope or happiness? Not indeed. I think not only life of nonbelievers are full of anxiety and stress but also believers’. Anxiety is a common feeling that most of the people do have in their life especially in modern times due to technological and scientific development. The more you know the more you feel anxious and feared and threatened by the circumstances that [...]