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New Muslim Support Group Tonight at The MYF 7.30pm-9.30pm

The New Muslims Project was established in response to concerns of insufficient services and support being available to those individuals around the UK who had converted to Islam or were interested in finding out more about the faith. The MYF group has grown to provide a range of services which aims to meet the social and educational needs of new Muslims in and around Manchester. Read more…

Youth Camp March 2014

We are delighted to announce that our Youth Camp March 2014 is a complete sell-out! All spaces have now been taken. We are really looking forward to this Camp and will endeavor to provide many more opportunities for those that missed out to be able to attend future Camps.

We are also hoping to organize a Camp for sisters In Shaa Allah in the future, watch this space!

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Jealousy is not something new

If you hear the beating of resentful words in your ears, do not worry jealousy is not something new. As a poet said: “Devote yourself to the gathering of virtues, and work, and turn your back on someone who cools his jealousy by giving you censure, Know that your life’s-span is the season of good deeds, in it, they may be accepted, and after is death, when all jealousy ceases.” A wise person said: Read more…

A few words on patience

Ibn Mas’ood (may Allah be pleased with him) is related to have said: “Relief and aid are from faith and contentment. Anxiety and grief are from doubt and anger.”
He also used to say:

“The patient one achieves the best of aims.”

Abban ibn Taghlab said: Read more…

Be free from worry and fear

More than thirty chapters of the book Al-Faraju B `ada ash-Shiddah deal with the topic of ease and relief after difficulty. The book stresses the point that the more severely we become engrossed in hardship, the closer we are to ease and relief. The book has more than two hundred stories, all of which revolve around this theme. Whatever the hardship may be, it is only a matter of days before better times arrive. At-Tanookhi said,

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The Wisdom of Ibn Al-Qayyim

Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (real name: Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr) was a famous Sunni Islamic jurist, commentator on the Quran, astronomer, chemist, philosopher, psychologist, scientist and theologian. His scholarship was focused on the sciences of Hadith (tradition of the Prophet peace be upon him) and Fiqh ( Islamic jurisprudence). But because of his extensive work pertaining to human behavior and ethics, he is commonly referred to as “the scholar of the heart.”

Teachers

At the age of 21, he joined the study circle of the Muslim scholarSheikh ul-Islam Ibn Taymiyah, 661H – 728H (1263–1328). This most notable of his teachers kept him in his company for sixteen years as his closest student and disciple. Ibn al-Qayyim was fervent in his devotion to his teacher; defended his religious opinions and approaches; compiled and edited most of his works and taught the same, and later became his successor. Read more…

What is Quran? Allah describes the Quran in the Quran

The best answer to the question “What is Quran” is provided by Allah – the Lord and Rabb of everything that is ever created and exists. The following are some of the descriptions about Quran within the Quran asserting its authority as a divine book revealed for the entire humanity at large.