Updates from July-August 2013 Issue of The Message magazine. “Help Syria Now” Campaign According to the UN, from March 15, 2011 until April 30, 2013, more than 93,000 lost their …
38TH Annual ICNA-MAS Convention Report
Alhamdulillah, the 38th Annual ICNA-MAS Convention, held in Hartford, CT over the Memorial Day weekend, was a huge success! The theme of this year’s convention was “Islam: The Pursuit of …
38TH Annual ICNA-MAS Convention Report
The Hartford Convention Center was teeming with the sights and sounds that bring Muslims back each year. This was the ICNA-MAS 38th Annual Convention which was themed “Islam: The Pursuit …
HHRD’s Syrian and Palestanian Relief Update
Spending time with Syrian refugees in Lebanon, Br. Irfan Khurshid and Br. Ilyas Hasan Choudry of Helping Hand for Relief & Development (HHRD) saw the heart-wrenching suffering of men, women, …
Africa Initiative of Helping Hand for Relief & Development
The year 2011 saw dramatic changes and upheaval in the North African nations of Algeria, Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya. Helping Hand for Relief & Development (HHRD), in partnership with local …
Mohammad Ali, Champion in the Ring to Champion of the Disadvantaged
In 1954 Muhammad Ali was 12 years-old and his bike was stolen after he left it in front of a Louisville, Kentucky department store. A police officer happened to be …
Book Review: Islam: An Essential Understanding
When the author, Dr. Manzoor Hussain, an American Muslim, found his fellow Americans laboring under many misconceptions and misunderstandings about the Islamic faith, he concluded that Islam was the most …
Prophet Yusuf (p): From Trials to Triumph
In surah Baqarah, verse 253, as in so many verses in the Qur’an, we are told that Allah (SWT) does what He wills. We observe this principle in everyday life. …
Energy at ICNA-MAS Convention… Its Electrifying!
I stepped out of the airport and was confronted by the sight of eight boisterous girls stuffed into a minivan with their luggage and junk food. I was to be …
History of Islam in Africa
The Prophet Muhammad reminded the Muslim world, “We are a single community, distinct from others.” The distinction shapes the Muslim’s religious identity and underlines the nature of the Islamic ideal, …