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M Y   S H A D E
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by: Khadija Javed
You wonder what my shade is. What it represents.
Call me anything; an extremist, a fundamentalist,
Anything you desire. I don’t care.
My shade […]

Taken from “The Islamic Garden”
 Adhkar, an important issue of Islam, is actually the heart of Islam. We are required to do a lot of them all through our days and nights. Adhkar generally consist of some […]

SHOW ME THE WAY
Lyrics by Virginia (Noor) Magracia
 
Lord, please show me the way (2x)
I was lost in the dark
I was lost in my way
Lord, please show me the way
I pray to you night and day
Teach me how to […]

PARTY
Lyrics by Virginia (Noor) Magracia
 
It was Friday morning, when friends came to invite
me
They said, “Come with us, we’ll have a big party.”
Old friends will be there, long time I didn’t see
Thinking […]

Testing the believer with hard trials is a SUNNAH (way of life) The severity of the trial depends on the degree of faith The lesser the trial, the lesser the faith The price of Jannah (Paradise) is so precious, so roll up your sleeves and strive hard Don’t make your past hinder you from going on [...]

Judy is working as a receptionist in one company. She went to the Philippine Embassy to run an errand for her employer, just few days before the onset of the holy month of Ramadan. While waiting in the cue, 3 ladies approached her and gave her a set of pamphlets. Her number is not yet called, [...]

Glenda lives in the middle of two neighboring Muslim communities in the Philippines. Nevertheless, she did not know what Islam really is. She thought that it is just like any other religion. Last year, her Madam gifted her a Tagalog translation of the holy Quran. She read it from cover to cover. From that time onwards, she [...]

Her family’s religion ever since is Seventh Day Adventist . One of her sisters embraced Roman Catholic, the biggest denomination in Christianity. In year 2001, she followed the footsteps of her sister and she became a Catholic, as well. She arrived in this tiny kingdom 7 months ago and started to question (repeatedly) her Madam about this great r…[Read more]

Back home in the Philippines, Marites used to work with Muslims and her neighboring towns are populated by Muslims. She has many relatives who became Muslims by heart, too. She is married with 3 children. She is following the New Apostolic Faith, a subsect of Protestant and her husband following the main denomination of Christianity, Roman Catholic. [...]

Airene, now called Samirah, landed in Kuwait over a year ago. In the household where she worked, there is a Filipina revert named Ibtihaj. She admired her way of worship and asked her questions about her becoming a Muslim. Last Ramadan, she was ashamed to eat because the whole household was fasting. So, she acted as [...]

Wilma came to our center with two Filipina reverts accompanying her, who are also her colleagues. She hails from Bohol where the famous tourist spot “Chocolate Hills” is located. Though her place is a Christian community, there are quite a number of Muslims now in her area. However, she did not have the interest to [...]

Davao del Sur! That is the place where Sheila grew up in the Philippines. It is a place where both communities are living together, Muslims and Christians. Davao is where the Tausug tribe lives, but their practice on Islam is weak, unlike their other neighboring Muslim tribes. As they interact with their Christian neighbors, they [...]

Annaliza said that she became a Muslim by herself last 2006. She fasted the holy month of Ramadan that year. She went to IPC Rawda after a year (that was Ramadan, too) to formally embrace Islam and to learn more. She attended some sessions there. When she went to her hometown (Bulacan, Philippines) for vacation, unfortunately she was unable [...]

These 2 ladies, Jenifer and Jackielou , came to me with bright faces and told me they want to become Muslims. Both are newcomers in this tiny kingdom, so i t is only natural to presume that they knew nothing about Islam as they are coming from areas where Muslims are not to be found. They told that their Madam [...]