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The story of Jesus in the Islamic tradition. Muslims believe in the Virgin Birth, that Jesus performed miracles, and that he is the Messiah. They don’t believe he was crucified, but he was taken up to heaven by God and will return to earth as a Muslim. This is an illuminating film with commentary from […]

Shaykh Hamza Yusuf is interviewed by Mark Lawson on BBC Four.
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The plural marriages of the prophet (SAW) are a guidance of the believers.

They serve as guides on the do’s and don’ts of marriages in Islam.
All the types of marriages that we derive from the Prophet’s (SAW) plural
marriages are based on the following words of Allah (SWT), Qur’anic Evidence
Translation (Al-Maidah 5:5)

“(Lawful to you in marriage) are […]

We all claim that the Quran is the greatest miracle that Prophet (Muhammad SAW) has been given, we all know this, but very few of us understand, appreciate or realise how. The purpose of this talk is to introduce, on a basic level, what is this miraculous nature of the Quran.

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The Koran is an ancient tome that has been followed by Muslims for more than a thousand year. This History Channel presentation casts some Western eyes over the book and helps viewers to decipher some of the important passages of the text contained within. The program draws on the wise words of a number of […]

Imam Abdul Malik talks about dating and the Islamic way. He touches on the issue of hypocrisy within Muslims today and Muslim families.

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A link to a letter, by Peter BetBasoo, questioning the Arab civilisation was posted in the comments section by one of our visitors. In it, one false story he was trying to convey was that the Jizyah (poll tax) was used to force many communities to convert to Islam by being extortionately high, in his […]

The rise of Islam is one of the most important events in world history. In the 7th century, Mohammed’s intention was to unite the divided Arabs through a new religion. A century after his death, he’d succeeded in producing a medieval superpower. The Arabs and Moors had spread through Spain towards the Pyrenees. Cordoba became […]

We in the West know what the Ancient Greeks, Egyptians and Babylonians have done for us in terms of scientific discovery. Most of us have at least heard of Socrates, Ptolemy, Galen and Pythagoras and of their contributions to philosophy, astronomy, physics and mathematics. But how many of us have heard of Al-Kindi, Ibn Sina, […]

This following is an interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf conducted by Islam Channel during his recent visit to the UK for the launch of his latest book entitled The Creed of Imam al-Tahawi. Although the interview does not delve into Imam Tahawi’s book ‘Al Aqeedah At-Tahawiyyah’ I hope it will still be an interest to […]