If you are a parent, enroll your children in evening or weekend madrassa classes, so that they develop their attachment to the Qur'an, learn about the life of Prophet Muhammad (sallallahu alaihi wasallam) and become accustomed to worshiping with other motivated children in a single-gender Islamic environment. You'll find that Muslims manage to have just as good a time without them as most people do with them - In fact they have a much better time. It would be like saying your prayers without meaning them. Or saying your prayers and then doing bad deeds.

It's his unpretentious writing style that makes this book so authentic. There’s no feeling of being talked at. But instead, it’s as if he’s sharing his deeply personal feelings with friends - who play a big part in his life and in the book - and we’ve been invited to listen in. Ramadan is the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar and lasts either 29 or 30 days. During Ramadan, Muslims observe a fast from sunrise to sunset each day, so they wake up early to share food before the sun appears and end it in later in the evening. Practice all five daily prayers. Praying five times a day is obligatory for all Muslims that have reached puberty and is of the upmost importance. Learning what the words mean will enhance your contemplation within prayer. If you do not speak Arabic, try to find some translated versions of the prayer words and take some time to read and understand what the words mean. Make the five prayers the focal points of every day, the way eating is a physiological need of ours, our spiritual food is prayer. Inviting people to embrace Islam (dawah) is incumbent upon all Muslims, so think how you can best help to spread Islam to non-Muslims in your community and encourage Muslims to practice their religion more deeply.Tell the believing men to lower their gaze and to be mindful of their chastity: verily this will be most conducive to their purity – (and) verily Allah is aware of all that they do.” [Qur’an 24:30] In 2014, while working for the New Zealand state channel, news broke of a hostage situation at a busy Sydney cafe. The gunman had been identified as a Muslim Australian. Benefits of Converting to Islam (3 parts)”. How to Convert to Islam - The Testimony of Faith ( Shahada) Dating aside, he will spend time with his male friends just as anyone else would, albeit without the use of alcohol, which is forbidden in Islam. A true Muslim husband emulates the Prophet’s practice in every matter. If offended by his wife’s behavior and resorted to take action against her, he never forgets to follow the Prophet’s teaching in circumstances like this, and therefore dislikes beating his wife. For he knows that the Prophet himself very much disliked the beating of wives. In collection of Abu Da’ud, he is reported to have said:

Hassan taps into an authentic and realistic multicultural New Zealand that we all recognise but rarely read about, and brings into view perspectives that mainstream often fails to voice."Beside the jihad and Sufi missionary activity, another factor in the spread of Islam was the far-ranging influence of Muslim traders, who not only introduced Islam quite early to the Indian east coast and South India but also proved to be the main catalytic agents (beside the Sufis) in converting people to Islam in Indonesia, Malaya, and China. Islam was introduced to Indonesia in the 14th century, hardly having time to consolidate itself there politically before the region came under Dutch hegemony.