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Curriculum for the Saalik

1. Perform Complete Salah Prayers should not be performed perfunctorily; they should be offered with presence of mind as well. So there are two parts of this instruction: 1) offering the prayer and 2) maintaining focus when doing so. Fajr: 2 Rakah Sunnah, 2 Rakah Fardh Ishraq: 2 Rakah Nafl – approximately 15-20 minutes after sunrise Dhuha: 4 Rakah Nafl…
October 9, 2024

Seeking Knowledge: How Do I Do It?

For most individuals in the West who are trying to balance school, work, and family, its often hard to know just where to start seeking knowledge. Below we have provided some guidelines that we hope you will find beneficial in deciding how to seek Islamic knowledge. STEP 1: Make the Intention Whether one ever does become a scholar or not…
October 9, 2024

Twenty Reasons to Be a Scholar of Islam

1 – To earn the pleasure of Allah SWT. “Whoever Allaah SWT wants good for, He gives him fiqh (understanding) of the Deen.” 2 – To gain entry into Jannah. “Whoever traverses a path in order to gain knowledge, then Allaah SWT will make the path to Jannah easy for him.”  3 – To gain higher ranks. “Allaah will exalt in degree those of you…
October 9, 2024

Dua

Man has always had a need to communicate with the Divine, to commune with the Ineffable. Who else can know the fineness of human feeling, the depth of human need, and the direness of their predicament? Who else knows the subtleties of our thoughts, the shades of our emotions, the varied facets of our circumstances? He knows us better than…
October 9, 2024