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It's not mentioned in Islam's holy book, the Quran, but the religion's ban on depicting the Prophet Muhammad — even favorably — has run firm through the centuries...

Love him or hate him, at least London Imam Anjem Choudary speaks the truth. Last Wednesday during an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, Hannity and Choudary discussed Islam and its views toward the world, freedom of expression, freedom of religion,...

Two French imams visiting the Vatican have called on Muslims to respond to the deadly attack on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo by rising up to express their disgust at the criminals who have “hijacked” their religion.

The country's information ministry said President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi asked the heads of the country's leading Muslim groups "to confront the misleading ideologies harming Islam and Muslims worldwide."

“Modern education tends to focus on materialist goals with insufficient stress on developing warm-heartedness. If our education touches on ethics it is usually in relation to religious faith. Despite their philosophical differences, the main practice of all the major religious traditions is love....

A man spent many years searching for the perfect women. One day he found her, but he still did not get married. Someone asked him why and he said: “Yes, I found the perfect women, but she was also looking for the perfect man!” Some aspects of narcissism are not bad ...

Saudi Arabia is a kingdom, and has had several Kings during the last 100 years, but it does not have a ‘Shahi Imam’, nor had one before. Even the men who lead the prayers at the Ka’ba in Mecca are simply known as Imams....

Arab storytellers tell the tale of the Greek architect Sinimmar who built the Khavarnaq Palace for King Nu`man of Hirah. After building the splendid palace, Sinimmar boasted of his prowess as an architect and claimed that he could build ...

Many Muslims and non-Muslims alike claim that Islam is a religion of peace and that violence perpetrated in the name of Islam is actually due to distortions or misunderstandings of the religion.

when addressing people, address them by their names and do so in a positive way. This shows that you respect them and that they are important to you. Whatever, you do, do not fixate upon yourself when you are speaking to them. That will have the opposite effect.

When I read news about Gaza and Burma, among other places, I sometimes feel I might lose hope in humanity. Is there any space for peace and trust? Is there any place where tolerance can be a fact of life, a guiding light for people of diverse backgrounds to love and respect each other’s dignity?

Indonesian scholar Ulil Abshar Abdalla has waded into Malaysia's controversial "Allah" edict, saying Muslims who believe the word is exclusive to Islam were “confused” and noted that the Arabic term predates Islam.

Islamic states that govern themselves according to both religious and secular principles are not necessarily undemocratic, argued Islamic Studies lecturer Jocelyne Cesari at an event hosted by the South Asia Institute Tuesday evening.

As a child, Osama al-Bar would walk from his home past Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba, to the market of spice and fabric merchants where his father owned a store. At that time, Mecca was so small, pilgrims could sit at the cube-shaped Kaaba ...

Maryam Mosque in Galway to be inaugurated by the the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph) of the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.

Love is the rain that quenches the soul’s thirst in desolate times where the strong devours the weak and those in power oppress the disenfranchised. This is why love was the approach chosen by the best of humanity, whom Allah send as a mercy to guide the people ...

A London-based action group have launched a YouTube and Twitter campaign #NotInMyName to condemn ISIS (IS) terrorism. After the murder of David Haines and kidnapping of Alan Hemming, the East London-based group Active Change Foundation decided to voice their anger.

While President Obama reveals his plan to obliterate ISIS with force, and Bill Maher continues his ignorant rant to tie ISIS to Islam, New York Times journalist David Brooks provides the correct counter to ISIS in his September 4 column...

Rafiq Hayat, National President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community UK, said: “The appalling murder of David Haines at the hands of a British follower of ISIS is a horrific act of evil. Islam advocates love, respect and peace ...

Misconception 6: All Muslimmen marry four wives. The religion of Islam was revealed for all societies and all times and so accommodates widely differing social requirements. Circumstances may warrant the taking of ...

Misconception 1: Muslims are violent, terrorists and/or extremists. This is the biggest misconception in Islam, no doubt resulting from the constant stereotyping and bashing the media gives Islam. When a gunman attacks ...

Tarfa Baghajati says young people who go to join Islamic State in Syria and Iraq "do not see themselves as being part of this [Western] society: they were not brought up to blend in in a positive way."...

Last year total of 555235 people accepted Islam Ahmadiyyat Al’hamdoLillah and Masha Allah Mali, Nigeria on top for new joinees into Jama’at – Ba’iat

Members of two Bangladeshi Islamic groups have protested angrily and threatened the government with a nationwide strike after respected leader Maolana Nurul Islam Farooqi was hacked to death, allegedly by extremist Islamists on Wednesday.

Saudi Arabia’s Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdulaziz Al al-Sheikh, the highest religious authority in the country, has said the militant groups Islamic State and al Qaeda are “enemy number one of Islam” and not in any way part of the faith.

Islam did not come only to guide people to happiness in the Hereafter. Neither did it come to direct them in their spiritual development while leaving their worldly lives in disarray, without any concern for developing and bettering the world, as claimed ...

Masjid Malcolm Shabazz has been a center of African-American Muslim life in Harlem since Malcolm X began preaching there in 1956. But gone are the mosque's politics of Black Nationalism, its rule that white people aren't allowed inside ...

His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim, Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph) has condemned the ongoing violence in Gaza during the final Friday Sermon of this year’s Islamic month of Ramadan.

The sun begins to fade behind the hills. We hear the Adhan, the Muslim call to prayer, in the distance, signaling the end of the fast. I take a large swig of water and eat a soft date. The flavors almost feel like shocks on my tongue. After breaking our fast...

The Prophet asked a woman from Madinah: “What prevented you from embarking on the Hajj pilgrimage with me?” She replied: “We had two camels. My husband and child took one and left the other for the rest of us to ride on.” The Prophet then told her: “When the month of Ramadān ...