Links, Resources, Glossary and FAQs

marco murphy

Salaams,

Can this be stickied please?


Nasheed Artists : - Islamic Songs

www.shaamgroup.com
www.meemmusic.com


The Holy Qur'an
http://www.geocities.com/zaksweb/private/Quran.zip

Downloads from Islam Channel
http://www.islamchannel.tv/downloads.aspx

Resources
www.zaksweb.net
http://www.islamicity.com/education/understandingislamandmuslims/



More to come.

marco murphy

Miracles in the Qur'an

The Prophets

Pillars Of Islam

Salaat

Praying

Fasting

All from http://www.help-for-the-convert.net

marco murphy

Nasheeds And Various Songs :

Allah-allah-laelaha-ellallah


Mawlid al-Mahdi (Arabic and Farsi)

Ya La Tharaat il-Husayn

Wibbs

If I may be so bold. These are good sources(IMHO) with different translations of each passage. Searchable too, which may prove useful for people.


http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/quran/

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/reference/searchhadith.html

Hobbes

You should give more descriptions for the links. For example: "Nasheed Artists" is totally meaningless to me. People tend to blank out links they don't know about.

Hobbes

This thread it to post a link to a thread where a question has been asked more then once.

Nominating a thread.
1. First establish that the question has been asked more then once.

2. Find the post/s that answer the question already and create a post here listing them.

3. Point future users to the FAQ. They are welcome to continue the conversation if they believe it is a different topic.

Hobbes

Shattering Ten Misconceptions About Islam

• Islam is `the religion of peace'
• In Islam, denial of human rights is OK
• In Islam, women are inferior to men
• Islam is well-suited only to the Arabs
• Islam rejects Jesus
• Islam orders the worship of a man
• Islam tolerates the killing of innocents
• Islam is intolerant of other religions
• Islam is a racist, afro-centric cult
• Islam produces a lazy, uneducated society

Human Rights as defined by Islam.

http://www.usc.edu/dept/MSA/humanrelations/humanrights/

Hobbes

Wikipedia gives a very good breakdown of Islam (for those who are not familar with it).

• Islam
• Muslim
• Madrassa (Schools)

Suff

The Holy Quraan is a reciting and not a reading book.
If anyone is interested in hearing the way it should be recited please find below a link to one of the most beautiful reciters.

Meshary Rashid Al Afasy
Thank you

Also a link to a Great application, it’s called Quraan Viewer, you can have the Arabic text with a translation beside it. Recommended when you listen to the sura to open the corresponding sura in the Quraan viewer.

Holy Quraan Viewer

Example …..AL-Fatihah in the audio link
open the Holy Quraan Viewer on the same sura (AL-Fatihah) to read the translation while you listen to it.
Nice experience.

Regards
Suff

zaksweb

I am a visiting user. This is my first and last post Insh-Allah. Ramadan Mubarak!

Updates to some links above.

www.geocities.com/zaksweb no longer hosts zaksweb!

Please visit: www.zaksweb.net

Click on Religion > Islamic Centre > ....

Also visit the Forums. Insh-Allah.

Suff

If you like to see the Taraweh prayers in Mecca for this Ramadan and last year Ramadan Please Visit the following link

I would HIGHLY RECOMMEND to view "1425 Night 28.rm" it contains the prayer when completing the recitation of the Quraan. Very imotional.

This year's prayers are also there but will get updates with prayers from past night soon inshallah.
Salaam

Hobbes

Zaksweb looks like spam posting. Unless someone can give me a reason not to it will be removed.

Frank Grimes

Hobbes wrote:

Zaksweb looks like spam posting. Unless someone can give me a reason not to it will be removed.

It's just correcting a couple of links in Poblachtach's post, I wouldn't think it's meant as spam.

Hobbes

Ok fixed up Poblachtachs post.

zaksweb

forgive me if it seemed like spam but i was actually correcting the links - these forums aint that bad and its clever how it shows like this and the grey version. happy ramadhan..

marco murphy

Help me...






Salaam Aleiykom : Peace be upon you
Waleiykom Salaam : You too ...
Alhamdullilah : Praise to the God
Insh'allah : God willing
There is no god but god : la illahe ilallah


Thats all i can think of

Osman

Peace,

Hiyyak Allah
When greeting someone after Salaams
Translation: May Allah greet you

Bismillah arRahman arRahim
before making a beginning
Translation: In the name of Allah most Gracious most Merciful

Jazak Allah Khieran
for expression of thanks
Translation: May Allah reward you with blessings

BarakAllahu feekum or Allah baraka fiki
responding to someone’s thanks
Translation: May Allah bless you

Fi Amanullah
by way of saying good-bye
Translation: May Allah protect you

Subhaanallah
for praising something
Translation: Glory be to Allah

Insha Allah
for expressing a desire to do something
Translation: If Allah wills

Astaghfirullah
repenting for sins before Allah
I beg Allah for forgiveness

Masha Allah
for expressing appreciation of something good
As Allah has willed

Alhamdulillah
for showing gratitude to Allah after success or even after completing anything
Praise be to Allah

Ameen
the end of a Dua or prayer
Translation: May it be so

Sal allahu aleihi wasallam
whenever say the name of Prophet Muhammad
Translation: Peace be upon him (S.A.W.)

Alaihi salaam
whenever say the name of a prophet
Translation: Peace be upon him (A.S.)

Radi Allah Anhu
whenever say name of male companion of the Prophet (Sahabi)Translation: May Allah be pleased with him (R.A.)

Radi Allah Anha
whenever say name of female companion of the Prophet
Translation: May Allah be pleased with her (R.A.)

Radi Allah Anhum
Plural form of saying companions of the Prophet
May Allah be pleased with them (R.A.)

Innaa lillaahi wa innaa ilayhi raaji'oon
this is uttered as an expression upon hearing the news of some loss or some one's death
Translation: To Allah we belong and to Him is our return

aathama allaho ajrakom
uttered to family of deceased
Translation: may Allah make your ajer "reward" great

Shukr Allaho sayikum
uttered to people who attend aaza - when friends go to send condolences upon death of a person
Translation: May Allah accept that your effort

La hawla wala quwata illah billah
during the time of troubles
Translation: There is no strength nor power except Allah



Regards,

Osman

marco murphy

Sticky mods?

Osman

Peace,

http://www.beconvinced.com
- Information about Islam for believers and non-believers. Articles and audio and
video resources on topics including women, science, comparative religion e.t.c. An excellent website, I fully recommend it.

http://www.understanding-islam.org
- Information about Islam in the light of Qur'an and Sunnah. Questions are asked with detailed responses. I am a part of their forum.

http://www.islamtoday.com

Articles on contemporary issues, news, and ethical and legal matters. Includes a section on discovering Islam.

http://www.allaahuakbar.net

A website with a wealth of information and a great resource for learning about Islam. The colour is hardly attractive though

These are my main recommendations but there are a lot more that just haven't sprung to mind.

Regards,

Osman

Suff

The Best Application on the web for muslims!

it's an Athan Aplication that would call the exact prayer times with over 6 million cities around the world to choose from.
the best one is the Mecca athan.

its free
here's the Download Link

the_new_mr

http://www.islam-guide.com
Excellent website with a short but sweet introduction to Islam in a number of languages. Good for quick reading. Downloadable PDF document available as well.

http://www.islamonline.net
Very comprehensive Islamic site dealing with everything from a detailed introduction to Islam and Muslims to fatwas (religious rulings on particular matters) and current events.

Hagar

Discover Islam Web TV - Webcast from Bahrain

the_new_mr

Salam!

A couple of more links.

www.islamicfinder.com
Very good site with all sorts of cool stuff. Main cool feature is the athan program which plays the sound of the athan at the time of each of the prayers according to your location in the world.

www.elasalaty.com
A site for a program similar to the athan program called Ela Salaty. Has more options than the athan program but is unfortunately currently only available in arabic.

Avapxia

This is a good website for Newbies

www.sultan.org

the_new_mr

The Quran in Arabic and English with a number of different
translations with recitations for both. Excellent website!

http://www.quranexplorer.com/quran/

hivizman

Large collection of Qur'an recitations at

http://english.islamway.com/bindex.php?section=erecitorslist

First link on the reciters' list is a recitation with each verse in Arabic followed by an English version.

Some of the reciters provide recitations for only a few Suras, but if you explore you can find complete recitations.

20 Times 20 Times

Hobbes wrote: »

Wikipedia gives a very good breakdown of Islam (for those who are not familar with it).

Islam

I have just finished reading the wiki entry for Islam and I have to say it one of the most interesting things that I have ever read. I really didn’t have any prior knowledge of the teachings and the beliefs and I must say that it has just motivated me to learn more about the fascinating religion I think I shall give myself a task to read maybe one article everyday for the next week.

the_new_mr

Although I'm a big fan of wikipedia myself (who isn't these days? ), I tend to take a bit of care whenever I'm reading about a sensitive subject such as religion or politics. May I suggest www.readingislam.com? It's an excellent resource for information on Islam and most of the stuff on it is very well written.

panda100

Thought Id put this up here for anyone thats intrested.Theres a good few events on Islam occuring in Dublin universities across the next few weeks:

http://ucdsu.ie/cms/smf/index.php?topic=175.0

hivizman

I came across this comprehensive bibliography (114 pages) quite recently:

Islamic Studies: A Bibliography

The bibliography contains books in English, written by a wide range of both academic and general authors. Note that the bibliography is aimed at non-Muslim students looking at Islam from the outside, so it would be particularly helpful for those studying Islam in a comparative religion context or examining society, economy and politics in the Middle East and other predominantly Muslim parts of the world.

The bibliography was prepared by Patrick O'Donnell, who teaches Philosophy at Santa Barbara City College.

irishconvert

Salaam,

Here is a very good copy of a translation of the Qur'an. It has an explaination of the meaning of each Surah also which is very helpful

http://al-quraan.org/read-quran-online-c-4.html

hivizman

A recent addition to the internet is corpus.quran.com. This had been developed by the Language Research Group at the University of Leeds. You can locate any specific surah and ayah in the Qur'an from drop-down menus, and the programme goes through the ayah word-by word. It provides the arabic word, colour coded to identify the grammatical part(s) of speech, states the grammatical form of the word (for example, "genitive masculine plural noun"), and gives a transliteration and an English translation. If you click on the transliteration, you are taken to a page where all appearances in the Qur'an of words derived from the same consonantal root are listed, cross-referred to the verses where they appear, and the translations used in those verses are stated. This makes it possible to see how the same arabic word may have subtly different English translations in different places.

For example, I clicked on "l-'alamina", the last word of Surah al-Fatiha 1:2. This links to a page giving all 854 occurrences of words based on the root "'ayn lam mim". One important insight is how Qur'anic Arabic links words and concepts that in English may not appear connected. So the singular word " 'il'mu " is translated as "knowledge", while the plural form " 'alamina " is translated "the worlds" or "the Universe". In a sense, this equates "the Universe" with "all things that can constitute knowledge", and I was reminded of the first sentence of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus "The world is all that is the case", which some philosophers would interpret as "all that can be known".

The corpus has other facilities. For each verse, it is possible to see a "syntactic tree", which reveals the grammatical structure of the verse. For every verse, you can read seven different English translations (Sahih International, Pickthall, Yusuf Ali, Shakir, Muhammad Sarwar, Mohsin Khan and Arberry) and also listen to a recitation. There is a "verb concordance" - a list sorted by frequency of occurrence of every verb in the Qur'an. For each verb, you can click on the English translation and get the Arabic text, and English translation (Sahih International), of every verse in which that verb appears. I was interested that the verb "say" appears more times (over 1600) in the Qur'an than the verb "be" (around 1350). There is also a list of "lemmas" (subsets of the word families constituted by consonantal roots), which are much closer to the English notion of a single word. This is also sorted by frequency, and provides the same facility of listing all verses where a lemma appears. For example, the lemma "l-lah", Allah, which appears over 2,700 times in the Qur'an, can be located in every verse.

There is also a list of key concepts, and clicking on any of these produces a page providing a brief discussion together with a link to a list of all verses containing that concept, even if the wording used is different. For example, the concept "day of resurrection" picks up "yawm id-din" as well as "yawm al-qiyamah".

I've only been looking at the corpus for a short time, and I'm sure that there are other very valuable features not just for students of Islam and Qur'anic Arabic but for Muslims as well.

hivizman

the_new_mr wrote: »

http://www.islamonline.net
Very comprehensive Islamic site dealing with everything from a detailed introduction to Islam and Muslims to fatwas (religious rulings on particular matters) and current events.

Unfortunately, the islamonline.net site seems to have become very problematic, owing to disputes between the "owners" of the site, based in Qatar, and the journalists who ran the site, based in Egypt. See this article in The Guardian.

The home page eventually appears, but links from the home page do not seem to be working.

It is a great shame that this website seems to have gone, since it has been a very good source of information in recent years.

hivizman

I came across this interesting article "Educating Imams in Germany: the Battle for a European Islam". Although the main focus of the article is on how German mosques can reduce their reliance on imams who come from other countries (especially Turkey), the article raises some important issues about the tensions between a desire for integration (especially as an increasing number of "born" Muslims in European countries are three or even four generations away from their immigrant roots) and a desire to maintain cultural traditions and links with the "home country".

whydoc

Gazakum Allah khair all of you for this great thread, this is my participation, it's great site for islamic books, like:

A Mercy To The Universe

[Fiqh-Us-Seerah] Understanding The Life Of The Prophet Muhammad

The Life Of Prophet Muhammad: Highlights And Lessons

The Best Of All Husbands

Ar Raheeq Al Makhtum (The sealed Nectar)

Bulugh Al-Maram (Attainment Of The Objective According To The Evidence Of The Ordinances)

An Introduction To The Science Of Hadith

Rules Governing The Criticism Of Hadeeth

Women Around The Messenger (PBUH)
http://www.alghurabaa.org/books/seerah/

The site is great, please tell your brothers about it

hivizman

hivizman wrote: »

Unfortunately, the islamonline.net site seems to have become very problematic, owing to disputes between the "owners" of the site, based in Qatar, and the journalists who ran the site, based in Egypt. See this article in The Guardian.

The home page eventually appears, but links from the home page do not seem to be working.

It is a great shame that this website seems to have gone, since it has been a very good source of information in recent years.

About a year ago, I reported the demise of the islamonline.net website. Some of the people associated with the site have now relaunched it as www.onislam.net. As before, it is a mixture of news reports, articles and responses to questions, and I hope that it will continue to be a helpful source of information on Islam.

whydoc

Asalam alaikum:


This is the complete set of the Holy Qur'an along with an English Verse-by-Verse translation mp3. The Arabic is recited by Shaykh Mishaari Raashid. The English is read by Ibrahaim Walk using the Saheeh International Translation.

whydoc

Search anything about islam, here:

Muslims Search Engine

whydoc

For those who have facebook account:

http://www.facebook.com/iloveallaah

Jaafa

http://www.shiachat.com/forum/

A good site if your Shia or Sunni or Atheist for that matter. Plenty of debate going on in it.

whydoc

Cultural Values in the Message of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)

Language: English
Formation : Muhammad ibn Abdullah as-Saheem
Reviewing : Muhammad AbdulRaoof
Download page: http://www.islamhouse.com/p/396077

feargale

feargale wrote: »

Is the western media, in particular the Irish media, guilty of a grave omission in failing to report condemnations by Islamic religious leaders of atrocities such as the Boko Haram kidnappings? Do such condemnations not happen?

I have already posted this question on another Islamic thread. I am here submitting it for consideration by the Islam FAQ thread. If I am not following procedure correctly please guide me.

feargale

feargale wrote: »

Is the western media, in particular the Irish media, guilty of a grave omission in failing to report condemnations by Islamic religious leaders of atrocities such as the Boko Haram kidnappings? Do such condemnations not happen?

I have already posted this question on another Islamic thread. I am here submitting it for consideration by the Islam FAQ thread. If I am not following procedure correctly please guide me.