I highly recommend the following three things for any beginner student to help understand the words of the Qur’an: 1) An Arabic/English Mushaf This is imperative and now possible with the relatively new Al-Quran Al-Karim series from Karya Bestari. It’s a word for word translation of the Madinah Mushaf, on the same line as the […]

Ramadan comes from the root word رمض which signifies something being intensely heated by the sun. The scholars therefore liken Ramadan to the opportunity of ’burning our sins’ and purifying ourselves. This is important as we enter this month, because if we’re honest with ourselves, every single one of us are sinners. Day by day, […]