The Prophet Muhammad (s) – A web portal to him (s)
Lastprophet.info is a non-profit web portal that seeks to describe and talk about the Prophet of Islam, Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to an English-speaking audience of…
Our Faith
Why Does One have to follow a madhhab?
A madhab is a school of interpretation of the laws and rules of the faith that is consistent within its standard rules of interpretation based…
Quranic References to the Status of Our Beloved Prophet (S)
References from the Qur’an where God speaks about the characteristics and status of the Prophet Muhammad (s) HIS EXALTED STATUS 1. He is Nur (Sacred Light) (5:15)…
Al-Fiqh Al-Akbar
Introduction Translated by Hamid Algar (Professor of Persian and Islamic Studies, University of California, Berkeley) [The following statement appears before the translation of the actual…
A Nawawi Foundation Paper: One God, Many Names
ONE GOD Many Names A Nawawi Foundation Paper: One God, Many Names by Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah ©2004. All rights reserved. From the standpoint of…
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf interviews Syed Muhammad Naquib Al-Attas
Crescent Watch
Every community should have a group of people that commits to sighting the new moon each month. High-quality astronomy magazines and websites indicate the most…
Cesarean Moon Births
This two part paper will examine the issue of Muslims physically sighting the crescent moon as the basis for beginning the months that constitute their…
Understanding Tradition
“Tradition” in academic circles has come to signify old fashioned customs, archaic cultural practices, ossified ideas handed down from the past and articulated to the…
