Faith Fridays - Faith and the Cubicle by Imam Suhaib Webb [VIDEO]

Every Friday we hope to bring you a khutbah or short lecture in English that we feel may be of benefit to you. Think of it as a weekly khutbah from a different perspective. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes (or less) a week to learn something new. If you have any suggestions on a video that we should share please send us an email via "Write for Us". One of our favourite imams is back in town. That's right, Imam Suhaib Webb is gracing YMP with his awesomeness and will talking about whether we have ADD. Not "attention deficit disorder" but "akhirat deficit disorder"! RSVP here. In preparation for next week's talk we bring to you a recent sermon of his where he expertly advises us on how to live our Islam and how to let it shine through everything that we do. Enjoy...

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Faith Fridays - Fajr Reminders with Sheikh Bilal Ismail [VIDEO]

Every Friday we hope to bring you a khutbah or short lecture in English that we feel may be of benefit to you. Think of it as a weekly khutbah from a different perspective. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes (or less) a week to learn something new. If you have any suggestions on a video that we should share please send us an email via "Write for Us". Salam. If you haven't already heard YMP will be hosting an event with Sheikh Bilal Ismail this Friday 23r September entitled "How to be a Good Buddy?". As such this week's video will be introducing Sheikh Bilal. This two part video was taken at Al Kauthar's Knowledge Hive 2010 in Kuala Lumpur (which I heard was really good). In it Sheikh Bilal validates the feeling that we have sometimes that being a Muslim is tough. Sometimes...

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Tips For Becoming More Active In Mosques

Salam everyone,This is another article written by Hijab al Faisal. She is working at Quranreading.com as a Web Content Writer teaching Quran to students living in the USA, Canada,and the UK. According to Hijab, Quran Reading is the largest Online Quran Academy, where they have taught more than 5000 kids and parents to Read Quran online with Tajweed. Masha Allah!Please visit their website for more details. :) (Note: YMP is not in anyway related to any of our the guest author's organization. We only publish the articles submitted to us once it has been approved by our Co-Editors. If you are interested to write on our blog, please submit your draft to adam.alhabshi@gmail.com and shazeea@gmail.com) For a Muslim society, the mosque serves as a founding stone. It is also...

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Faith Fridays - Give Back to Allah by Imam Siraj Wahhaj [VIDEO]

Every Friday we hope to bring you a khutbah or short lecture in English that we feel may be of benefit to you. Think of it as a weekly khutbah from a different perspective. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes (or less) a week to learn something new. If you have any suggestions on a video that we should share please send us an email via "Write for Us". It's very easy to say "alhamdulillah" but part of praising Allah is being grateful for what we have and part of being grateful of what we have involves moving beyond acknowledgement into using what we have been bestowed for Allah and in His cause. Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who always packs a mean punch when he talks, reminds us about being thankful for what we have and about giving it back to Allah. ...

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Feed the Poor, Feed the Soul

by Azeem Ambalam Azeem is a regular volunteer at YMP's Soup Kitchen. We operate every Wednesday and Sunday night. This article was originally published here. I first found out about PERTIWI Soup Kitchen thru my neighbor Jenna whom I tagged along with on a rainy Sunday night last April. To be honest I was just curious but largely still uninterested but for some reason I just went along. All I knew about soup kitchens were long lines of the poor queuing up for watery soup at dinghy premises in the dodgier parts of town. I was right about the lines though, but there wasn’t a dinghy kitchen or any soup at all. We load up a vending truck with pre-packed food supplied by a caterer before heading out to our recipients at a few locations...

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Faith Fridays - Purify Your Soul by Perfecting Modesty by Sh. Omar Suleiman [VIDEO]

Every Friday we hope to bring you a khutbah or short lecture in English that we feel may be of benefit to you. Think of it as a weekly khutbah from a different perspective. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes (or less) a week to learn something new. If you have any suggestions on a video that we should share please send us an email via "Write for Us". This week we're talking about modesty (hayaa'). While traditionally this term has been applied to how we dress in reality we should have modesty in everything that we do. But how do we do that without understanding what hayaa'  is in the first place? This video was taken at the the ICNA Conference (Islamic Circle of North America) at a special session for the youth. Listen to what Sheikh Omar Suleiman has to...

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The Rights Of A Spouse In Islam

Salam everyone,This is an article written by Hijab al Faisal. She is working at Quranreading.com as a Web Content Writer teaching Quran to students living in the USA, Canada,and the UK. According to Hijab, Quran Reading is the largest Online Quran Academy, where they have taught more than 5000 kids and parents to Read Quran online with Tajweed. Masha Allah!Please visit their website for more details. :) (Note: YMP is not in anyway related to any of our the guest author's organization. We only publish the articles submitted to us once it has been approved by our Co-Editors. If you are interested to write on our blog, please submit your draft to adam.alhabshi@gmail.com and shazeea@gmail.com) Islam considers marriage a sacred union of two beings. In Islam, marriage is a gift of...

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Faith Fridays - Parting Farewell Advice of Ramadan by Nouman Ali Khan [VIDEO]

Every Friday we hope to bring you a khutbah or short lecture in English that we feel may be of benefit to you. Think of it as a weekly khutbah from a different perspective. All you need to do is spend 30 minutes (or less) a week to learn something new. If you have any suggestions on a video that we should share please send us an email via "Write for Us". Ramadhan has left us and while we celebrate the victory of fasting and abstaining for a whole month there is a bittersweet feeling that lingers. The question "What next?" also plays a part because we all know that it shouldn't just stop after 29/30 days. In this week's video Nouman Ali Khan looks back at the Qur'anic verses on Ramadhan and points out that this month is the training ground that is suppose to prepare us...

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