Darul Iftaa Building Project
Assalāmu `alaikum Warahmatullāhi Wabrakatuh, We make Du’a you are well. The Darul Iftaa Mahmudiyyah (Durban, South Africa) was established in the year 2011. The fundamental objective...
Shaykh Muhammad Awwamah visits Durban and The Darul Iftaa
By the grace of Allah, Durban and in particular the Darul Iftaa was blessed on the 28th of June 2012 with the personality of Shaykh...
The Greatest Empire in History
Extract from a speech by Carly Fiorina, CEO of Hewlett-Packard in September 2001: There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the...
Financial crisis explained humorously
Mary is the proprietor of a bar in Dublin . She realises that virtually all of her customers are unemployed alcoholics and, as such, can...
Who is the Ideal Woman?
All great men have been nurtured in the laps of women. As the famous saying states, “Behind every successful man there is a woman.” It...
The Value of Time part 2
Qadhi Iyaadh rahimahullah wrote a biography of the Maliki scholar of fiqh and hadith Muhammad ibn Suhnoon and said, “He had a servant called Umm...
Chinese wisdom & proverbs
Ability “Ability in itself is nothing when denied opportunity” “Anyone can sail a ship when the sea is calm” “First attain skill; creativity comes...
Knowledge: Seek, process, register and implement
Knowledge of that which affects a person under all conditions holds a position similar to food, which obviously one can live without. Knowledge of matters...
Words of wisdom
Organise your day, so that you make years out of minutes and months out of seconds. If you desire to be accepted by all and...
The value of time
Time is like a sword, if you don’t slay it, it will slay you! Every dead person envies you for the time you...
How Shariah Compliant are you?
Debentures, rebate, rollovers, collaterals, liens, mortgages, shares, bonds: a never ending list! There may be hundreds of terminologies in circulation in the financial world of...
How should I study? – A guideline for students
Knowing how to study is just as important as studying if not more important. A student spends years studying, however if his methodology is inaccurate...