Eye of Islam

Mount Arafat or Mount Arafah (Arabic: transliterated Jabal ‘Arafāt) is a granite hill east of Mecca in the plain of...

THERE was a time when people would spend months and months preparing themselves financially and spiritually to live the real...

The Chief Executive Officer of Med-View Airline, Alhaji Muneer Bankole, spoke with journalists last weekend during the annual Hajj seminar...

MILLIONS of pilgrims from all over the world will be converging on Mecca in the coming days. They will retrace...

Director of Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), Ishaq Akintola, a professor of Islamic Eschatology, speaks with SAHEED SALAWU on some issues...

THE Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca) is the fifth of the fundamental Muslim obligations and institutions known as the five pillars...

ABU Ayyub al-Ansari relates that Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) says: “Whoever fasts the month of Ramadan and then...

GROWING up in Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province, Rumana Mahomed considered Eid to be a...

SUFYAN ibn ‘Abdullah, may Allah be pleased with him, said: “O Messenger of Allah, tell me something about Islam, after...

THE holy month of Ramadan is here, with Muslims fasting from dawn to dusk to observe the period. But what...