Muslim Social Network & Lifestyle Magazine

by Mufti Taqi Usmani

From Superstitions into Light

Rabi’ul-Awwal is the most significant month in the Islamic history, because humanity has been blessed in this month by the birth of the Holy Prophet […]

The official £5 coins for the London 2012 Games, created by student design competition winners, were unveiled.

Saiman Miah, 24, said his love of architecture spurred on his design for the Olympic coin which […]

Horrified internet viewers in New Zealand have seen live pictures of a helicopter becoming entangled in cables and crashing to the ground.

It was helping install a giant Christmas tree on Auckland’s […]

Azezur Khan, 21, was gunned down in East Dulwich, south-east London, last Thursday after attending a funeral prayer.

Mr Khan, known as Ronnie, was shot near the junction of Forest Hill Road and Rockells Place […]

Three-quarters of Britons who become Muslims are female. Now a major new study has shed light on the difficulties they face in adjusting to their new life.

Record numbers of young, white British women are […]

The Silver Lining, The Spider Webs! An unexpected side-effect of the flooding in parts of Pakistan has been that millions of spiders climbed up into the trees to escape the rising flood waters. Because of the […]

Every year the Ice Hotel in Jukkasjärvi, Sweden sculpts a church out of pure ice and snow from the Torne River. But now an ‘ice mosque’ is the latest project for the iconic hotel, reports The Local.

Located […]

Ibn ‘Abbaas and Ibn ‘Umar reported that the Prophet (saw) said:

“Whoever abuses my Companions, upon them is the curse of Allah, the angles and the people.“

[At-Tabaranee, declared hasan by Shaykh Al-Albaanee […]

Award-winning Californian based film maker and photographer, Mustafa Davis shares his personal identity crises when faced with trying to explain the phenomenon of the ‘American Muslim’.

Mustafa Davis is founder […]

An Islamic TV channel that encouraged viewers to donate money in return for prayers has been fined £75,000 by Ofcom.

The media regulator said “susceptible members of the audience may have been persuaded to […]

Clinging on for dear life to the side of a vertical cliff, the tiny lion cub cries out pitifully for help.

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Photography by Jean Francois Largot

This weekend NASA published an awesome time-lapse flyby of planet Earth taken from the International Space Station. Awesome, but jerky—until now. Someone interpolated the original frames to achieve this smooth as silk motion film. It’ll leave you stupefied. Probably created with the magical Twixtor, the new video runs at 30 frames-per-second.…[Read more]

There have been false rumours circulating over the internet and media that Eid ul Fitr was celebrated on the wrong date and that the sighting of the new moon was incorrect. It seems that one falsely written article designed to show disunity amongst the ummah and also to discredit the Saudi Arabian Government has been …

A lot has been said about 9/11 and understandably so however, from a Muslim perspective I thought some of the comments by Desmond Tutu about the 9/11 anger stigmatising all Muslims seems to perfectly sum up how a significant number of Muslims feel. Nobel Peace Prize winner Tutu is no longer a player on the …

The name “Muhammad” has been discovered in the Bible in the original Hebrew language. In the 5th chapter of the Shir haShirim ( שיר השירים ), which is one of the five megilot or Sacred Scrolls that are part of the Hebrew Bible or for short the “Song of Solomon” (also called “Song of Songs”). …

For centuries there was no such conflict. In the 19th century the land of Palestine was inhabited by a multicultural population – approximately 86 percent Muslim, 10 percent Christian, and 4 percent Jewish – living in peace. Zionism In the late 1800s a group in Europe decided to colonize this land. Known as Zionists, they represented …

JAKARTA (Reuters) – Seven dogs starved of food and water for two weeks are suspected of eating their Indonesian owner after he returned to his hometown in Manado from a holiday, local media reported Tuesday. A neighbourhood guard was curious when he saw luggage lined up at the front of Andre Lumboga’s house, days after …

Similarly, we can also say that we have two types of months; the first is the legal month, which is known as Ramadan and the second is the astronomical (scientific) one, which is the 9th month of the lunar calendar. All Islamic rulings are based upon the first month which may or may not coincide with …

A lightning bolt appears to strike the iconic Eiffel Tower while the Paris landmark is seen illuminated in vibrant blue lights. Amateur photographer Bertrand Kulik captured the shot which will appear in an exhibition titled “Lumieres celestes, lumieres des hommes”, in Issy L’eveque, Burgundy. It was taken in July last year during a storm in …