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Mufti Menk: How Music Was Introduced and Adultery & How Other Sins Developed (Video)
How Music was Introduced and adultery and how other sins evolved e.g Tabarruj (when a woman start diplaying her beauty and to start dressing up in order to attract).
Full lecture…
FREE BOOK: THE GARDENS OF THE RIGHTEOUS (PDF)
The Gardens of the Righteous (رياض الصالحين), pronounced Riyadh as-Salihin in the original Arabic, is a compilation of verses from the Qur’an and hadith by Al-Nawawi. It contains a total of 680 hadith divided across 372 chapters, many of which are introduced by verses of the Quran.
When The Rich Run The Government, This Is What You Get (Video)
After the most expensive midterms in American history, one has to wonder: Do the rich run U.S. politics? And can the United States truly be hailed as one of the greatest democracies in the world? Or is there a better word for how things work in the land of the free?
Why Muslim women wear Hijab
Source: The Deen Show
She walks down the street covered up from head to toe. Her many layers and loose clothing have you very confused. It’s warm outside. Most people are wearing shorts and t-shirts. Yet, you find this particular woman, going against the norm and sticking out from the rest. In America, where one is “free” to do, say, or even wear anything, why would a free woman choose to dress this way? It’s a logical question.
The scramble for Africa
Whether in bustling cities or remote villages, the 1880s and 1890s were years of terrifying upheaval for Africans. Fleet upon fleet of foreign soldiers armed with new weaponry – and a sense of entitlement – descended, seemingly overnight.
In the space of just 20 years, 90 per cent of Africa was brought under European occupation. Europe had captured a continent.
Europe was in the throes of the Industrial Revolution. The advent of the machine was transforming the cities there into the workshop of the world – a workshop in need of raw materials. It was the dawn of industrial-scale production, modern capitalist economies and mass international trade. And in this new industrial era the value of Africa rocketed – not only for its materials and as a strategic trade route, but also as a market for the goods Europe now produced in bulk.
But the scramble for Africa was not just about economics. Colonialism had become the fast-track to political supremacy in Europe. Rival European powers convened in the German capital and in February 1885 signed the Act of Berlin – an agreement to abolish slavery and allow free trade. The act also drew new borders on the map of Africa, awarding territory to each European power – thus legalising the scramble for Africa.
But with the Second World War – which saw the peak of Europe’s dependency on African troops – a powerful genie was released from a bottle – African nationalism. The tipping point came on February 3, 1960, when Harold Macmillan, the British prime minister, gave his ‘wind of change’ speech. Within 10 months, Britain had surrendered two key African territories and France 14. The rate of decolonisation when it arrived was breathtaking.
Seventeen African nations gained their independence in 1960, but the dreams of the independence era were short-lived. Africa … states of independence tells the story of some of those countries – stories of mass exploitation, of the ecstasy of independence and of how – with liberation – a new, covert scramble for resources was born.
YOU CAN’T LIBERATE THE FREE
In Islam, a woman is free to be who she is inside, and immuned from being portrayed as sex symbol and lusted after. The covering of the Muslim woman is not oppression but a liberation from the shackles of male scrutiny and the standards of attractiveness.
Illustrated Lessons: Quran Gems – The 4 Steps (Video)
A video illustration showing the miracle of the first two ayaat of Surah Al-Jumuah.
Source: http://www.nakcollection.com/
PASS THE KNOWLEDGE (LIGHT & LIFE) 