In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Imam Bukhari narrates that a certain Companion heard a man recite qul huwa allahu ahad repeatedly at night. When morning came, he went to the Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) and told him about what he had heard, deeming slight and paltry [...]

Ramadan’s come and gone. The “back to square one” effect starts to seep through the filter Ramadan created. TV’s start turning on, Quran goes back on the shelf…
So what’s next?
It’s planning for next year’s Ramadan.
Ustadha Zaynab Ansari explains the importance of planning ahead in “Ramadan & YOU” course:
1. Motivate ourselves for Ramadan
2. Make the [...]

Shaykh Sohail Hanif explains in “The Sunna Prayers Related to the Obligatory Prayers”
Two [sunna] before Fajr:
It is from the sunna to recite Suraal-Kafirun in the first rakat and Suraal-Ikhlas in the second sometimes, [...]

assalamu ‘alaykum,
Announcing a new short course, at a special tuition rate for Ramadan:
The Supplications of the Daily Prayer
Turning the Prayer into a Spiritual Experience
with Shaykh Hamza Karamali
Saturdays from 12-2pm GMT / 8-10am EST
Starts Saturday, September 15th
Five times a day at least, we turn our faces towards the Qibla to fulfill the second pillar of [...]

In the Name of Allah, Most Merciful and Compassionate
Imam Ghazali’s diagnosis of the problem of heedlessness during prayer has an interesting consequence: anything that distracts us from Allah Most High during our prayer is, in reality, dunya, even if it outwardly appears to be religious. This is a powerful tool that we can use to [...]