Allah supported Islam with Hamzah and his conversion. He was strong in defending the Prophet of Allah and the helpless amongst his Companions.

Hamzah ibn `Abdul-Muttalib: The Lion of Allah & the Martyr of Martyrs (Part 2)

There were people among the non-believers who yearned to declare their belief in Muhammad, but their fear of the prevailing norms and inherited traditions prevented them. Among them was Hamzah

Hamzah ibn `Abdul-Muttalib: The Lion of Allah & Martyr of Martyrs (Part 1)

`Ammar was enduring the dreadful anguish of the body because his spirit was lofty, but now when he thought defeat had reached his spirit,..

`Ammar Ibn Yasir: A Man of Paradise (Part 1)

Because the Prophet’s intervention women were treated as equals, given rights. Learn how the Prophet’s significant contribution to women’s rights inspired Shaista Aziz, a writer and journalist,...

Prophet Muhammad: The Emancipator of Women’s Rights

Greeting in Islam not only increases friendship, harmony and respect, it simultaneously signifies fulfilling the rights of du`aa’

The Neglected Value of Greeting

Let us now approach the first years of his message. Those were years one rarely finds an equal to in the annals of history for the constancy, truth, and eminence.

Muhammad: The First Years of His Message

One feels amazed by the degree of detailing in the description of the Prophet’s physical features. The scholars talked about his external traits in the minutest way.

Prophet’s Physical Features: As If You Were Seeing Him

Among the seventy-man delegation of the Ansar who took the oath of allegiance to the Prophet in the Second Allegiance of `Aqabah sat a young man with a bright face, graceful eyes, and a radiant smile.

Mu`adh Ibn Jabal: The Most Learned of Halal and Haram

Do you know that during his lifetime, Prophet Muhammad took counsel with and encouraged over 600 female scholars, warriors, nurses, businesswomen, teachers and students?

Islam & Legal Rights of Women

Does Islam suffocate women’s freedom and rights to live properly or does it help them reclaim their true feminism? Here’s the answer from their own lips…

Islam: The True Emancipator of Women Converts

Did you know not that in the Christian France in 586 AD a conference was held to discuss whether a woman is a human with a soul or not? How was woman looked upon and considered before the advent of Islam? And what did Islam come to give her?

Women Before and After Islam

My Mom ’d told me my whole life to be open-minded and to accept everybody, though it was so hard for her to accept this. An American Muslim sister tells of her…

My Journey to Islam: A Worthy Struggle with the Hijab

What was Prophet Muhammad to his Companions? What did make them believe in him, cherish him, sacrifice their lives for his sake?

Muhammad to His Companions: The Light They Followed

Generosity, asceticism and piety all worked together in complete harmony to shape the most magnificent merits of that great man, Ibn `Umar. Learn more

`Abdullah ibn `Umar: A Great Man with a Tender Heart (Part 2)

Possessing two weapons, his lance and his prayer. Whenever Sa`d pierced an enemy with his lance he hurt him; whenever he invoked Allah He answered. Learn more…

Sa`d Ibn Abi Waqqas: The Lion’s Claws!

What do you know about the man whose body bore the scars of the horrible torture and, at the same time, the document of amazing steadfastness and extraordinary greatness?

`Ammar Ibn Yasir: A Man of Paradise (Part 2)

How did Bilal ibn Rabah, the Abyssinian who once was only a slave, become one of the great and holy men of Islam, even one of Islam's great miracles?

Bilal ibn Rabah: A Miracle of Faith & Truthfulness

Can attacking the places of worship, i.e. churches, be justified in any religious teachings including Islamic? What does Islam say and teach about that? How can a religion be judged correctly?

Does Islam Command Attacking Churches?

The story of Bilal teach us the true meaning of freedom, that blackness of skin and bondage would not decry the greatness of the soul if it found its faith, adhered to its Creator, and clung to its right.

Bilal Ibn Rabah: A Living Lesson on Human Freedom

The fact that Islam came to abolish corrupt human relationships based on false and superficial discrimination, is embodied in the story of Zayd. Who is Zayd ibn Harythah? How did he become a commander of the Islamic army?

Zayd ibn Harithah: From Slavery to Commandership