Sharia In Your Mouth

From Reliance of the Traveller:  Using a toothstick (siwak)
“In Sacred Law it refers to the use of a twig or the like on the teeth and around them to remove an unpleasant change in the breath or similar, together with the intention of performing sunna.”
Sunna is any number of things, reciting the Qur’an, reading the [...]

Blogging–It’s a Weekend Kind of Thing

It’s beginning to look like my blog is going to be a weekend thing.  I just don’t have the time to do it every day.  Maybe admitting this to myself will keep me going, rather than setting up an impossible goal (like writing every day).
As much as I would like to fancy myself to be [...]

Sharia in the Household

Today’s entry is taken, as will many others be, from “The Reliance of the Traveller”, first published in 1991, written by Imam al-Nawawi, who died in 676/1277. 
The topic for today is Sharia regarding containers and utensils.  According to the “Reliance”, ritual purification can be accomplished using any container except for those made of gold or silver (the word [...]

Sharia, The Coming Storm

 Islam as a subject has been rendered taboo by America’s suicidal multiculturalism and the insanity  that goes with it, moral relativism.  Face it, Reader, Islam has ten-foot pole marks all over it, and one doesn’t dare to voice an opinion, unless it is the right   opinion–the one approved by the Political Correctness Gestapo.
If you fail [...]