Islamic Revival

By  Adnan Khan Two recent events took place which received some global media atten­tion and would indi­cate  ISIS  is expand­ing its capa­bil­i­ties and reach. On 12 Jan­u­ary 2015 as Barack Obama gave a speech in Wash­ing­ton on cybersecurity,[1] as he was speak­ing,  ISIS  suc­cess­fully hacked the  US  Cen­tral Com­mands twit­ter account in an act of cyber Jihad.[2] On 14 Jan­u­ary 2015 Saudi Ara­bia revealed details of its 600-mile-long “Great Wall,” to sep­a­rate the coun­try from Iraq. With much of the Saudi-Iraq bor­der under the con­trol of  ISIS  the buffer zone will con­sist of five lay­ers of fenc­ing with watch tow­ers, night-vision cam­eras and radar cameras.[3] All of this was after a sui­cide bomb­ing and gun attack killed two Saudi bor­der guards and their com­mand­ing offi­cer on 5 Jan­u­ary 2015, which the King­dom con­sid­ered the first attack by  ISIS  on Saudi Arabia.[4] It has now been over 6 months since the   ISIS  announce­ment of the Caliphate  and whilst t

Recent video in Arabic with English subtitles from the grounds of Masjid al-Aqsa in Palestine.

The following is a translation from the book:  Mafaheem Islaamiyah Al-Juz’u-l-Awwal,  Islamic concepts – Volume One by  Muhammad Hussein Abdullah published in  1994. Ar-Rooh (the spirit/soul) وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ And they ask you concerning the Rooh The human is a living entity composed of matter and Allah (swt) created Aadam (as) from Teen (clay). Allah Ta’Aalaa said: إِذْ قَالَ رَبُّكَ لِلْمَلَائِكَةِ إِنِّي خَالِقٌ بَشَرًا مِنْ طِينٍ (71) فَإِذَا سَوَّيْتُهُ وَنَفَخْتُ فِيهِ مِنْ رُوحِي فَقَعُوا لَهُ سَاجِدِينَ (So mention) when your Lord said to the Angels verily I am creating a human from clay. So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of my Rooh, then fall down to him in prostration (Saad 71-72). So man has questioned and asked about the essence of the Rooh and the Messenger of Allah (saw) was questioned about it, and so the Wahi came with an answer from the Lord of the worlds and all creation: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ قُلِ الرُّوحُ