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Changed by the Qur’an
Changed by the Qur’an is intended as a practical guide to remove the spiritual and intellectual barriers between every Muslim and their personal transformative relationship with the Qur’an
Secrets of Salah: The Hidden Gems of Prayer (Companion Journal)
The Secrets of Salah: The Hidden Gems of Prayer companion journal helps Muslims improve their prayer. It includes commentary and gems for each step of salah, and journaling space for your reflections on your journey to life-changing prayers.
The Inimitable Qur’an: The Revelation to Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (Archived)
Sh. Mohammad ElshinawyRead the updated version of ‘The Inimitable Qur’an’. To download the new e-book, The Final Prophet: Proofs for the Prophethood of Muhammad, click here.
The Message of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ: The Proofs of Prophethood Series (Archived)
Sh. Mohammad ElshinawyRead the updated version of ‘The Message of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ’. To download the new e-book, The Final Prophet: Proofs for the Prophethood of Muhammad, click here.
It’s Not Just an Iftar: The Power of Community in Ramadan | Blog
Shaimaa Kraba“Once upon a time . . . ” is how most fairy tales begin. In real life, it’s how single mothers begin sentences about who they were before everything changed. There was a time we believed life would be beautiful for us. Somewhere along the way, that kind of beauty became harder to reach. Not by...
Post-Ramadan Highs and Lows: How to Protect Your Faith in 4 Steps | Blog
Tarek GhanemEver wondered why our experience in the last ten days of Ramadan, or on its 27th night, diminishes so quickly after the month ends? Where do the light, faith, inspiration to do more, and sense of elation go? Why is it that they are sometimes overtaken by sluggishness, boredom, spiritual emptiness,...
Finding Comfort in Allah's Mercy after a Tragedy: How to respond to the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria | Blog
Dr. Usaama al-AzamiIn the aftermath of a disaster of the magnitude of the recent earthquakes in the Middle East, it is all too normal to feel paralyzed and helpless, both physically and mentally. Many of us might know people from these regions. Some of us may have lived there for a time. Suddenly, the familiar and...
Uniting the Ummah: Strategies to Foster Solidarity with Uyghur Muslims
Shahd Fulath KhanConnection to the community is a vital component of thriving religiosity for Muslims and provides a sense of belonging that is commonly used in the field of psychology to refer to the human need for acceptance, understanding, and to be part of a greater whole. Correlating with the Islamic concept...
What Are We Worth? Redefining Muslim Value with Dignity and Honor | Blog
Anna BirawiAbdur-rahman is my local North African bus driver. He drives Londoners from A to B, Sunday to Thursday, every week, earning just enough for a small flat, food for his family, and a bit left over to send his daughter to the swimming club after school. Malik, my neighbor, is an electrical engineer...
The Significance of Allah’s name al-Aziz: The Most Powerful and Dignified | Blog
Yaqeen InstituteIn His final revelation, the Almighty says, “Let not their speech grieve you for all might belongs to Allah. It is He who hears and knows [all things]” (Qur’an 10:65). وَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ ۘ إِنَّ ٱلْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا ۚ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ While this strong declaration of “all...
As the stench of death chokes the pulverized streets of Gaza, know that the indescribable aroma of its martyrs is rising to the heavens. There is a crowd of angels between the heavens and the earth, rushing to receive the souls who have been chosen by Allah. Those beautiful souls are not dead,...
Finding Comfort in Allah's Mercy after a Tragedy: How to respond to the earthquake in Türkiye and Syria | Blog
Dr. Usaama al-AzamiIn the aftermath of a disaster of the magnitude of the recent earthquakes in the Middle East, it is all too normal to feel paralyzed and helpless, both physically and mentally. Many of us might know people from these regions. Some of us may have lived there for a time. Suddenly, the familiar and...
Uniting the Ummah: Strategies to Foster Solidarity with Uyghur Muslims
Shahd Fulath KhanConnection to the community is a vital component of thriving religiosity for Muslims and provides a sense of belonging that is commonly used in the field of psychology to refer to the human need for acceptance, understanding, and to be part of a greater whole. Correlating with the Islamic concept...
What Are We Worth? Redefining Muslim Value with Dignity and Honor | Blog
Anna BirawiAbdur-rahman is my local North African bus driver. He drives Londoners from A to B, Sunday to Thursday, every week, earning just enough for a small flat, food for his family, and a bit left over to send his daughter to the swimming club after school. Malik, my neighbor, is an electrical engineer...
The Significance of Allah’s name al-Aziz: The Most Powerful and Dignified | Blog
Yaqeen InstituteIn His final revelation, the Almighty says, “Let not their speech grieve you for all might belongs to Allah. It is He who hears and knows [all things]” (Qur’an 10:65). وَلَا يَحْزُنكَ قَوْلُهُمْ ۘ إِنَّ ٱلْعِزَّةَ لِلَّهِ جَمِيعًا ۚ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلْعَلِيمُ While this strong declaration of “all...
As the stench of death chokes the pulverized streets of Gaza, know that the indescribable aroma of its martyrs is rising to the heavens. There is a crowd of angels between the heavens and the earth, rushing to receive the souls who have been chosen by Allah. Those beautiful souls are not dead,...
We Won’t Back Down: When Righteous Anger Becomes a Moral Duty | Blog
Dr. Hatem al-Haj
There are images that should never fade from our memory. Images that demand moral reckoning and spiritual resilience. The sight of Palestinian mothers and fathers holding the bodies of their children wounded, slain, or starving to death. The brutal bombing of medics and hospitals. The deliberate...
Are All Religions the Same? Islam and the False Promise of Perennialism
Tom Facchine
Martin Lings the perennialist Most English-speaking Muslims are familiar with the biography of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ written by Martin Lings, entitled Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. A staple of book clubs, this book has rightly earned high praise for its readability, erudition,...
How Gaza is Restoring Faith in God and Saving the World | Blog
Dr. Ovamir Anjum
The people of Gaza have become a living miracle. Their will to survive, and not only survive, but to persist and resist has sent shock waves around the world. It has awakened not only the Muslim masses but given hope to humanity itself. Hope for a new world, it has become evident, has come not from...
Islam and the Secular Age: Between Certainty and Uncertainty
Dr. Khalil Abdurrashid
Modernity was birthed in violence. It produced the nation-state, nationalism and with it a myriad of other “isms” which serve as new idols or heroes competing for people’s allegiances. Liberalism, feminism, Marxism, individualism, atheism, agnosticism, extremism, communism, capitalism, socialism,...
“Blood Soaked Keys to Jerusalem”: Why We Must Stand With The People of Syria | Blog
Dr. Ovamir Anjum
“Who would dare to touch the keys to Jerusalem if they were handed to us soaked in the blood of the children of Idlib?” reads a Palestinian placard days before the resistance took Damascus, marking the fall of the Assad regime on December 7th, 2024, after more than half a century of one of the most...
We Won’t Back Down: When Righteous Anger Becomes a Moral Duty | Blog
Dr. Hatem al-Haj
There are images that should never fade from our memory. Images that demand moral reckoning and spiritual resilience. The sight of Palestinian mothers and fathers holding the bodies of their children wounded, slain, or starving to death. The brutal bombing of medics and hospitals. The deliberate...
Are All Religions the Same? Islam and the False Promise of Perennialism
Tom Facchine
Martin Lings the perennialist Most English-speaking Muslims are familiar with the biography of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ written by Martin Lings, entitled Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources. A staple of book clubs, this book has rightly earned high praise for its readability, erudition,...
How Gaza is Restoring Faith in God and Saving the World | Blog
Dr. Ovamir Anjum
The people of Gaza have become a living miracle. Their will to survive, and not only survive, but to persist and resist has sent shock waves around the world. It has awakened not only the Muslim masses but given hope to humanity itself. Hope for a new world, it has become evident, has come not from...
Islam and the Secular Age: Between Certainty and Uncertainty
Dr. Khalil Abdurrashid
Modernity was birthed in violence. It produced the nation-state, nationalism and with it a myriad of other “isms” which serve as new idols or heroes competing for people’s allegiances. Liberalism, feminism, Marxism, individualism, atheism, agnosticism, extremism, communism, capitalism, socialism,...
“Blood Soaked Keys to Jerusalem”: Why We Must Stand With The People of Syria | Blog
Dr. Ovamir Anjum
“Who would dare to touch the keys to Jerusalem if they were handed to us soaked in the blood of the children of Idlib?” reads a Palestinian placard days before the resistance took Damascus, marking the fall of the Assad regime on December 7th, 2024, after more than half a century of one of the most...
From Clock Time to God’s Time: Returning to Sacred Rhythms in a Digital World | Blog
Faatimah Knight
Sacred scripture is replete with imageries of the sun, moon, stars, and our observance of them. In the Chapter of the Cracking, God sets an oath: “I swear by the twilight, by the night and what it covers, by the full moon, you will progress from stage to stage” (Qur’an 84:16–19); the Prophet ﷺ...
Dr. Edward Omar Moad
“When there is a general change of conditions,” Ibn Khaldun writes, “it is as if the entire creation had changed and the whole world been altered as if it were a new and repeated creation, a world brought into existence anew.” Diligent study of history had given him a unique awareness of something...
When Scrolling Breeds Despair: A Prophetic Cure to Comparison Culture | Blog
Dr. Jibran Khokhar
In seven short verses, we will see how every single word has been perfectly selected to convey the greatest moral lessons.
How Yaqeen Institute Approaches AI: Integrating Technology with Islamic Ethics
Dr. Mohamed AbuTaleb
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents both a profound challenge and a monumental opportunity for Yaqeen Institute when advancing its mission of dismantling doubts, nurturing conviction, and inspiring contribution. As AI rapidly transforms how knowledge is generated, shared, and experienced,...
Immortality on Earth? Transhumanism through Islamic Lenses
Tamim Mobayed
In 1965, an American scientist by the name of Gordon Moore made a relatively specific prediction about the number of transistors within a dense integrated circuit that would go on to become an accurate projection of technological change as a whole. Moore predicted that the number of transistors...
