Model of Abbas ibn Firnas’s flying machine at Ibn Battuta mall, Dubai IN 9th century Muslim Spain, more than a thousand years ago, on a hill in Cordoba, Abbas bin Firnas, boldly set out to do what no man had done before. He was ready to test the first flying machine in recorded history. To…...
The BBC has published an inspiring profile of a Muslim doctor who has brought massive change for the poor in Karachi, Pakistan: DR ADIB RIZVI’S most distinguishing feature is not just his grey hair. You can spot him in a crowd of people in a cramped hospital corridor by the respect he commands among patients…...
How do you warm yourself in the winter, especially when you come out shivering after a shower? Heater and warm clothes probably. But do you snuggle up with your wife or husband? Subulassalam recently published narrations of what some of the best Sahabah – Umar, Ali, Abdullah ibn Mas’ood, Abu Darda, and Ibn Umar –…...
The most brilliant engineering mind of his time, Al Jazari was a genius remembered for his design of five water-raising machines and a series of ornate, water clocks all of which were released in his famous book “Book of Ingenious Mechanical Devices”. Originating from an area between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers, Al Jazari lived…...
IT was 1433 years ago, when a man in Makkah – ridiculed and persecuted by his people – left on a mission to the close-by mountainous town of Taif. The man had declared to the Makkan people that he was a messenger of God who receives, through an angel, revelation from the Creator of the…...
THE Companions of the Noble Prophet ﷺ did not treat Islamic knowledge as if it were a series of facts that are pertinent exclusively to the sphere of the mind but have nothing to do with the heart or with actions. As a result of acquiring knowledge about Allah, His Names, His attributes, and His…...
DURING a vacation in Marrakesh, Morocco, Steven Demetre Georgiou aka ‘Cat’ Stevens was haunted by the sound of the Athan (the Muslim call to prayer) that rang out at random times of the day. Intrigued, he asked someone about the strange call and was told that it was ‘’music for God.” Years later, Yusuf Islam…...
‘It took me a long time to embrace Islam’ I cannot tell you how delighted I was when Umm Muhammad Assami, whose translation of the Quran’s meaning you know as Saheeh International, agreed to meet me during a recent visit to Jeddah. I went with my mother who is her former student. She welcomed us…...
WATER CLOCKS, among the earliest timekeepers created by mankind, were initially used as important aids to astronomy. One of the earliest forms of water-clocks, Clepsydra, is a simple Egyptian Vase (1500 BCE) from which water flowed out of small spout near its base. Divisions imprinted on its side indicated the time as the level dropped…....
How many Muslims do you know whose name, or at least one of his two names, is Muhammad? Chances are, many! Muhammad ﷺ is loved and followed by over a billion people in the world. And his name is perhaps the most popular one among Muslims worldwide to name their children after…....