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Monthly Archives: March 2014

week 4

This week we read some Sindhi and Urdu poems in praise of the prophet Muhammad. One of these was “the Miracle Story of the Prophet (Peace be upon Him) and the Doe,” in which a hunter traps a doe. The doe is distressed as she has left her two fawns hungry in the desert. Hearing […]

week 2

“The Koran is regarded as containing divine power; thus, to possess the Koranic texts renders an individual powerful and protects him against misfortunes and malevolent forces. The highest form of the possession of the Koran is its commitment to memory, which amounts to its internalization in the head, the superior part of the body, whence […]

calligraphy project

In the name of thy Lord and Cherisher, Who created man out of a mere blood clot. 96:1 Have not those who disbelieve seen that the heavens and the Earth were of one connected entity, then We separated them, and We made every living thing out of water? Will they then believe? 21:30 Allah has […]