online rihla

There is almost nothing quite as satisfying as a great find at a used book store.  Ok, perhaps that betrays what a boring and uneventful life I lead, but if that’s how it is, so be it.
Usually the Islam section at used bookstores are skewed heavily towards the “omg islam is evil11!!1!” genre and books […]

When I listen to Qur’an after a period of time where I have not, I’m overwhelmed.  My gets this weird full sensation and I’m just swept up in it.  It’s like nothing else I’ve ever felt.
7:26 O CHILDREN of Adam! Indeed, We have bestowed upon you from on high [the knowledge of making] garments to […]

THEY WILL ASK thee about intoxicants and games of chance. Say: “In both there is great evil as well as some benefit for man; but the evil which they cause is greater than the benefit which they bring.” Quran 2:219
Sure, getting drunk can be fun.  Walk through any college campus on a Friday night and you’ll see […]

Iqra!
The first word revealed to our beloved Prophet  was a command - iqra - to read, to recite.  As I’ve mentioned in the past, the Quran was what drew me to Islam.   I read it voraciously at first, and sought to own as many copies as I could afford.  I’m reluctant to admit, but now more […]

In the midst of a chaotic world, God’s words are there, solid, unchanging, to provide a firm ground upon which to stand.
 

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/faith/16116652.html

Odds are there’s no ‘holy war’ in Qur’an
By JEFF STRICKLER, Star Tribune
February 29, 2008

Want $1 million? All you have to do is find a reference in the Qur’an to “holy war.”
The offer is being made by Jamal Badawi, professor emeritus of management and religious studies at St. Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His only […]

 By Tariq Ramadan
Far from being a prison, or a constraint, revelation is an invitation to mankind to reconcile itself with its deepest essence, and to find there both the recognition of its limitations and the extraordinary potential of its intelligence and its imagination. To submit ourselves to the order of the Just One and of […]

So, I was surfing the itunes store last night looking for the Asma’u Allah (which isn’t there btw).  However, I did happen upon something a billion times better - theonlyword.   How did I not know about this before now?  It’s an mp3/notes combo of the quran for your ipod - now I can listen to […]

Download it here. His biography is here.

Hmmm, looks promising. InshaAllah going to test it out over the weekend.
http://itajweed.org/