THE Christ Evangelical and Life Intervention Ministry, Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, Kaduna State, has donated items, including mats and kettles, to a mosque situated on Fulani Road, Tudun-Wada, also within the metropolis, after the place of worship suffered a fire disaster. The General Overseer of the church, Pastor Yohanna Buru, who made the presentation of the items in company with other leaders and members of the church, said the donation was a gesture of love and compassion towards their Muslim friends and acquaintances. According to him, the gesture is necessary at...

Engr. (Dr.) Kadri Obafemi Hamzat (KOH) was born September 19, 1964 in Lagos, Nigeria. His father, Oba Mufutau Olatunji Hamzat is the Lagos West Senatorial District Leader of the All Progressive Congress (APC), and his mother, Alhaja A.K. Hamzat Nee Okonu of Oke Balogun Area of Epe Town in Lagos State. Dr. Kadri Obafemi Hazat started school at Odu Abore Memorial Primary School, Mushin, Lagos. For his secondary education, he was at the Olivet Baptist High School, Oyo. Thereafter, he got admission to the University of Ibadan where he graduated...

Mrs Foluke Kafayat Abdul-Razaq was born into the renowned Families of Labisi-Olugbesan of Agbokojo, Ibadan and Abibu-Oki of Lagos. She started her primary education at Our Lady of Apostles Private School, Yaba, Lagos and proceeded to Our Lady of Apostles Secondary School, Ibadan for her secondary education. She attended the Yaba College of Technology and the Kwara State College of Technology where she obtained her OND and HND (Accountancy) respectively. She holds a Master of Science (M.Sc) degree in Banking and Finance from Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan....

Islam teaches its followers many etiquette's of eating and living a healthy life. The Prophet made a point of developing remarkably clean and healthy eating habits among his followers. With its rich bazaars and political and caravans streaming in from desert oases, it would have been easy for a man of Muhammed's stature to live a lavish life of immoderate eating and unhealthy habit. But that's far from what happened. He shares many insights in the Qur'an on how to lead a natural and healthy life, and many of these...

There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn not to judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall. When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that...

Qari Muhammad Qayyam (may the mercy of Allah be upon him) related that a great deal of fighting and bloodshed had started prior to the Indo-Pakistan partition of 1947. He said that a very beautiful daughter of a very rich man in a certain community stepped out of her house to visit her aunt, who lived no more than a few streets away. Suddenly a riot erupted as she had gone halfway and she found herself trapped with apparently nowhere to go. She saw a Mosque nearby and quickly went...

The word Dawah in Arabic simply means to invite to something. When it is used in conjunction with Islam it means; inviting to the way of submission and surrender to Allah. In Islamic theology, the purpose of dawah is to invite people, both Muslims and non-Muslims, to understand the worship of Allah as expressed in the Qur'an and the sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (SAW). Dawah as the "Call towards Allah" is the means by which Muhammad began spreading the message of the Qur'an to mankind. After Muhammad, his followers and Ummah (Muslim community) assumed the responsibility. They convey the message...

Many years ago, there lived two woodcutters, Rahim and Rahman, in a village. They would go out every morning to the nearby forest to cut firewood and sell it in the nearby town. They earned barely enough to survive. After they had cut wood, they would sit on the bank of the river and eat their lunch from their lunch boxes. Next they would sell the firewood till the end of the day in the marketplace before going home. One sunny day, the woodcutters were eating their lunch. It was...

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar...and the coffee... A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was. So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and...

Anger is one of the evil whispers of Shaytaan, which leads to so many evils and tragedies, of which only Allah knows their full extent. For this reason Islam has a great deal to say about this bad characteristic, and the Prophet (SAW) described cures for this "disease" and ways to limit its effects, among which are the following: (1) Seeking refuge with Allah from the Shaytaan: Sulayman ibn Sard said: "I was sitting with the Prophet (SAW), and two men were slandering one another. One of them was red...