10 TIPS FOR MARRIED COUPLES TO KEEP INTIMACY ALIVE AND WELL

10 tips for spouses to keep intimacy alive and well

by Mahasin D. Shamsid-Deen

After intimate contact, couples need to take time to savor the closeness they feel in that moment.

Intimacy between married couples starts slowly and deepens over time with kindness and understanding.  Below are ten tips for a healthy intimate relationship with your spouse.

JESUS AND MUHAMMAD (UPON THEM BE PEACE), BROTHERS IN FAITH

Jesus and Muhammad (upon them be peace), brothers in faith

by Shaykh Naeem Abdul Wali (Gary Edwards)

“If you would trust in God as is His right to be trusted He would give you your provision as He gives it to the birds, they leave their roosts hungry and return satiated”, said the final universal Messenger, Muhammad.  Similarly the author of the Gospel of Mathew has his closest brother, Jesus saying to the crowds around him, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.   Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes?  Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them.   Are you not much more valuable than they?”  A little later he addressed them as, “O you of little faith?”

BEHIND A VEIL OF TEARS: JEWISH FATHER SUPPORTS HEADSCARF DAUGHTERS

Behind a veil of tears: Jewish father supports headscarf daughters

by Daniel Ben Simon

Two sisters became captivated by Islam, and their French liberal, `Jewish-by-chance’ father has found himself having to face up to their religiosity and subsequent expulsion from school. The incident has provoked both private and national ferment.

Laurent Levy, a sworn liberal and a total atheist, noticed dramatic changes in his two daughters, but he did not attribute much importance to them. One day, about two years ago, the two girls stopped eating pork. “No problem,” he said. A while later, they informed him that they intended to fast during the holy Muslim month of Ramadan. Levy thought it the most natural thing in the world that his daughters were adopting.

MUSLIMS ARRIVED IN AMERICA BEFORE THE FOUNDING OF THE UNITED STATES

America’s early Muslims

by Peter Manseu

IT was not the imam’s first time at the rodeo.

Scheduled to deliver an invocation at the Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo last week, Moujahed Bakhach of the local Islamic Association of Tarrant County canceled his appearance because of the backlash brought on by a prayer he had offered a few days before.

The imam had been asked to confer a blessing on horses, riders and members of the military. He was met with gasps from the audience and social media complaints: “Outraged at a Muslim prayer at an all American event!” “Cowboys don’t want it!”

IN ISLAM, DEATH IS NOT PERCEIVED AS AN END OF LIFE

Conveying rewards beyond the grave

by alahazrat.net

Allah – in the name of – the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.
At the outset please know, that in Islam, death is not perceived as an end of life. It is just the end of the worldly existence as we witness it, and the beginning of a new existence, in which the soul experiences a new world called “Barzakh.”

The soul may experience this new life with or without its original body, according to its own rank allotted to it by Allah the Almighty, the Supreme. There are too many proofs from the Holy Qur’an and Hadeeth (Holy Prophet’s Traditions) regarding the above, and warrant an extensive article on the same. But that is not the question here.

The Trinity: A Muslim perspective

by Abdal-Hakim Murad

A number of difficulties will beset any presentation of Muslim understandings of the Trinity. Not the least of these is the fact that these Muslim understandings have been almost as diverse and as numerous as those obtaining among Christian scholars themselves. It is true that medieval Islam knew much more about Christian doctrine than the doctors of the Church did about Islam, for the obvious reason that Muslim societies contained literate minorities with whom one could debate, something which was normally not the case in Christendom. 

Jesus from a Muslim perspective

by MV Media

Jesus of Nazareth is the most widely revered religious figure in the world. Not only is he central to Christianity, the largest religion in the world, he is also venerated throughout Islam, the world’s second largest faith.

Christians may be surprised to learn that Muslims believe in the Virgin Birth and Jesus’ miracles. But this shared interest in his message goes much further.
In our scientific age, the miraculous side of Jesus’ story has greatly obscured his role in the prophetic tradition. In this sense, there may be more important questions for Muslims and Christians than whether he walked on water or raised the dead.

MORE MODERN BRITISH CAREER WOMEN CONVERT TO ISLAM

Why are so many British career women converting to Islam?

by Eve Ahmed

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law announced her conversion to Islam in November 2010. Journalist Lauren Booth embraced the faith after what she describes as a ‘holy experience’ in Iran.

She is just one of a growing number of modern British career women to do so. Here, writer EVE AHMED, who was raised as a Muslim before rejecting the faith, explores the reasons why.

JESUS IS A MUSLIM AND HIS RELIGION IS ISLAM

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JESUS IS A MUSLIM AND HIS RELIGION IS ISLAM IN EVERY SENSE

by Syarif Hidayat

Jesus is a Muslim and his religion is Islam in every sense. Here is the proof from Al-Qur’an: Islamic view of Jesus (Jesus in Islam is Prophet Isa AS)  

In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. "He (Isa) said: "Verily I am a slave of Allah, He has given me the Scripture (Injil) and made me a Prophet; "And He has made me blessed wheresoever I be, and has enjoined on me Salat (prayer), and Zakat*, as long as I live."

"And dutiful to my mother, and made me not arrogant, unblest. "And Salam (peace) be upon me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I shall be raised alive (again)!" Such is Isa, son of Maryam. (It is) a statement of truth, about which they doubt (or dispute). It befits not (the Majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son (this refers to the slander of Christians against Allah, by saying that Isa is the son of Allah). Glorified (and Exalted) be He (above all that they associate with Him). When He decrees a thing, He only says to it: "Be!" – “and it is.” (Isa said): "And verily Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him (Alone). That is the Straight Path. (Allah’s religion of Islamic Monotheism which He did ordain for all of His Prophets)." Al Qur’an, Surah Maryam (Virgin Mary) 30 -36 ( Tafsir At-Tabarî )