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Ask most British Muslims which Hijri month it is and you will get a confident answer twice a year — in Ramadan, and around Eid al-Adha. The other ten months tend to pass unremarked. That is a shame, because the Islamic calendar is not merely a way...

When people talk about following the Sunnah, they usually mean the acts of worship — the extra prayers, the voluntary fasts. Those matter. But a very large portion of what was recorded about the Prophet, peace be upon him, concerns nothing of the ...

Zakat is the pillar people most often get wrong, not out of negligence but out of uncertainty. The rate is simple enough. What confuses people is which of their assets count, when the clock starts, and whether the money they already give to good c...

Ask most Muslims to describe the foundations of their faith and they will point to five acts of worship. These are the pillars, the practices that hold the structure of a Muslim life in place. They are described in a well-known narration recorded ...

Every established religious tradition faces the same practical problem. Its foundational texts were revealed or written at a particular moment, and its followers then live through centuries of circumstances those texts do not directly address. Som...

The question comes in various forms. Sometimes it is asked in good faith by a curious colleague. Sometimes it arrives from a teenager who has encountered a confident argument online and wants to know whether there is an answer. Occasionally it is ...

Tajweed is the set of rules governing how the Quran is recited: how letters are articulated, where sounds are lengthened, how words connect and where a reciter should stop. The word itself carries the sense of doing something well.Many Musl...

A large number of Muslims carry a quiet embarrassment about the Quran. They own one, they treat it with respect, and they have never really read it. Perhaps they learned to sound out the Arabic as a child and retained the mechanics without the mea...

There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes from walking past someone who needs help. Most of us have felt it. We resolve the discomfort quickly, usually by deciding that the problem is too large, that our contribution would not matter, or...

The first word revealed of the Quran was a command to read. Not to pray, not to fast, not to give. Read.Muslims cite this often, and the repetition has worn the strangeness off it. But it is genuinely unusual. A religion whose opening instr...

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