By Humza Mullick

By: Umm Abd Al-Rahman

Do I depend on others to make me happy?  Do I let my circumstances control my attitude of happiness?  Do I blame others for my current condition?  Does everything around me seem to be overwhelming with the feeling that my head is barely above the water? Amira Ayad in her book: "Healing Body and Soul, Your Guide to Holistic Wellbeing Following Islamic Teachings" gives us 20 tips to be truly happy in our daily circumstances and challenges.

Avicenna: Philosopher, Physician and Psychiatrist

(371-437 A.H. / 970-1036 G.)

     “His influence on European medicine has been overwhelming The Canon of Medicine is the culminating and masterpieces of Arabic Systematization… Latin versions of this gigantic work (13 volumes) exist in innumerable manuscripts; The demand for it may be gleaned from the fact that in the last 30 years of the 15^th century it was issued 16 times, 15 editions being in Latin and one in Hebrew, and that it was reissued more than 20 times during the 16^th century…  These figures do not include editions of part of the work… Commentaries on it in Latin, Hebrew and vernaculars, both in print, are without numbers, and the book continued to be printed and read into the second half of the 17^th century… Probably no medical book ever written has been so much studied…” Dr. Max Meyerhoff in the Legacy of Islam (Chapter on “Science and Medicine”).

By: Om Mohammed

 It is a common human trait that we view things of little value individually as rather unimportant, or as just as their face value expresses-possessing little value. However, when they occur or are somehow collected in greater numbers, their little value adds up to a greater sum value.

Family and Women Affairs

 Question 95: Why does Islam allow polygamy for men but not polyandry for women?  Where is justice here?

A Way Of Life And Worship

ISLAM

 Is an arabic word which denotes complete submission and obedience to God, the Creator and Sustainer of all that exists. God is one in essence and being, there is no concept of a division of His being, or His powers. To God alone does man owe worship and obedience.

     This message was preached by all Prophets of God, among them Adam & Noah, Moses & Abraham, Jonah & Soloman, John & Jesus, until the last of all the Prophets, Muhammad. Their message of one God was the same. They guided men to acknowledge and obey their Creator. As man deviated from the message they brought, God in His Mercy would send another Prophet until He sent the final message and way of life for mankind with the last of the line of Prophets, Muhammad. The revelation given to us which supersedes all other revelations is the Qur’an. It has never been changed or altered since its coming till now.

Abu Raihan Al-Bayruni

The Polyglot & Versatile Scientist

    Judge Al-Jisabouri reports, “I visited Abu Raihan when he was on his death bed. He said to me, ‘One day you told me about such and such a problem…’ I said, “You want me to explain it when you are in such a condition?” He said: “Tell me. Is it not better that I leave this world with knowledge about this issue than dying while ignorant of it?” So I explained the subject under discussion, and he in turn taught me things he had promised to explain to me earlier. I had scarcely left him when I heard cries from his house announcing his passing away.”

     This episode sums up for us the personality of our today’s hero, to whom knowledge and search for it were his goal in life. He was, in fact, acting on Prophet Mohammad’s teaching “Seek knowledge from the cradle to the grave.”

By: Umm Abd AlRahman

The third most common element in the universe is carbon which has an atomic weight of 12.01 grams so one atom of carbon equals 0.0000000000000000000019942 grams.  What does this have to do with good deeds?  Allah Most High tells us in "The Earthquake" chapter (Qur’an7:8):   "So whoever does an atom's weight of good will see it and whoever does an atom's weight of evil will see it." What kind of good deed has an atom's weight?  What is that small, littlest thing we may do and it will still be counted in our account?

By: Om Mohammed

There is much in both the Quran as well as the Sunnah of the Prophet (pbuh) which promote the learning of knowledge. To begin with, the first word of the Quran which was revealed to Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) was “Read!” (Qur’an 96:1). Then, in completion, the last verse revealed of the Quran was: “Today have I perfected your religious law for you, and have bestowed upon you the full measure of My blessings, and willed that self-surrender unto Me shall be your religion. As for him, however, who is driven [to what is forbidden] by dire necessity and not by an inclination to sinning -behold, God is much-forgiving, a dispenser of grace.” (Qur’an 5:3)

Family and Women Affairs

 Question 94: Why did Islam limit the number of wives to four? And why does it confine man’s sexual pleasure to marriage commitments, home and tasks?