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Calling the Qur'an amazing is not something done only by Muslims, who have an appreciation for the book and who are pleased with it; it has been labelled amazing by non-Muslims as well. In fact, even people who hate Islam very much have still called it amazing... Introduction One thing which surprises non-Muslims who are examining the book very closely is that the Qur'an does not appear to them to be what they expected. What they assume is that they have an old book which came fourteen centuries ago from the Arabian desert; and they expect that the book should look something like that - an old book from the desert. And then they find out that it does not resemble what they expected at all. Additionally, one of the first things that some people assume is that because it is an old book which comes from the desert, it should talk about the desert. Well, the Qur'an does talk about the desert - some of its imagery describes the desert; but it also talks about the sea -...

Tasmin Salih sweeps down the steps of the Edinburgh central mosque her headscarf fixed round her neck with a cut-glass brooch her black robe flapping in the breeze. From a distance she is a stereotypical Muslim woman. But as she draws closer it becomes clear there is something different about Salih: the little flesh that is exposed is white. Salih is an Islamic convert. Just three years ago she was Kimberley McCrindle from Penicuick in Midlothian a drama student. She has left behind the perceived freedoms of a western upbringing to embrace Islam. Ever since James McLintock 37 a middle-class Dundonian was arrested in Afghanistan on suspicion of being a member of Al-Qaeda Islamic converts have been in the spotlight. Now known as Mohammed Yacoub when he was captured McLintock was wearing Afghan clothes and had a long dark brown beard. It became clear he was not a terrorist but the fascination persisted about why someone would look outside his own culture and towards Islam to fulfil h...

BY Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani Praise be to Allah. We praise Him and seek His help and ask Him for His forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allah from the evil of our souls and from our sinful deeds. He whom Allah guides, no one can mislead and He whom He leaves astray none can guide. And we bear witness that there is no god except Allah who is alone and who has no partner and we bear witness that Sayyidina Muhammad is His servant and Messenger, may Allah bless him and his family and companions and may He favour him and give him peace a complete peace abundantly. I seek refuge in Allah from the accursed Satan. In the Name of Allah the Compassionate, the Merciful. "And those who hoard up gold and silver and expend it not in the way of Allah, so give them the glad tidings of a painful chastisement, on the day when it shall (all) be heated in the Fire of Hell, and there with their foreheads and their sides and their backs shall be branded, (saying), This is what you hoarded up for...