Islam For Teenagers: A simple guide explaining common issues faced by young Muslims.

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Every other Friday, we try to feature a new theme which will uplift our spirituality. Our themes mostly focus on the universal values such as compassion, patience, love and so on. Zakat:Giving to those in need. This can be obligatory through donating a portion of your earnings or a voluntary act to another being through generosity, love, compassion or faith. Allah will say, “This is the Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness.” For them are gardens [in Paradise] beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide forever, Allah being pleased with them, and they with Him. That is the great attainment. [Quran, 5:119]

There shall be no compulsion in [acceptance of] the religion. The right course has become clear from the wrong. So whoever disbelieves in Taghut and believes in Allah has grasped the most trustworthy handhold with no break in it. And Allah is Hearing and Knowing. [Quran, 2:256] Since the divine knowledge was mediated through the infallible teachings of an imam, the Shiʿites believed (in contrast to the Sunnites) that all knowledge derived from fallible, human sources was useless. It was not what the community thought, but what the imam proclaimed that counted. This narrowed the scope for toleration of divergent views.Teaching your children about the celebration of Eid? Take a look at this wonderful All About Eid PowerPoint. More Islamic Celebrations Muslims come from all over the world, so what they wear varies from country to country. Lots of Muslim women choose to wear a headscarf called a hijab to cover their hair in public. Some women wear a long loose dress called a jilbab, or a face covering called a niqab. Men sometimes wear a cap called a topi like mine, especially when they're praying. The Shahada or Shahadah symbol is an old Islamic oath written in Arabic calligraphy, which is one of the five pillars of Islam and is the Arabic term for the declaration in the belief of one God (Allah) and His messanger Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him).

Islamic stories for children like this show that all animals, no matter how big or small, are important to Allah. The special place for the prayer leader in a mosque, the Minbar is often decorated with elaborate pictures and carvings.If someone asks you, ‘Why are you learning?’ Would you say, ‘I just learn as everyone do’? Does that answer sound wise to you? You will rather say it as a stupid answer. So determination is important. If you are not firm with your purpose, you will never know where you are heading and what your life is. All your activities, from your school works to the prayers, everything will be in vain. The main aspect that requires to succeed is determination. The first three caliphs, Abu Bakr (Muhammad’s father-in-law), ʿUmar, and ʿUthman ibn ʿAffan, had all been close companions of the Prophet. ʿUthman was a member of the important and wealthy Umayyad clan at Mecca and a son-in-law of Muhammad. His murder in 656 led to his replacement by another son-in-law of the Prophet, ʿAli ibn Abi Talib, and to a civil war among Muslim factions. His murder in 661 again opened the question of whose right it was to be caliph. It also was the occasion of the first and only major division in Islam—between the Sunnites (or Sunnis) and the Shiʿites, the latter the followers of ʿAli. Sunnism