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Can I Give My Zakat to Fund Charitable Organizations?

Can I Give My Zakat to Fund Charitable Organizations?

November 10, 2025
As a rule, it is not permissible to give zakat to fund the running of an Islamic organization. Zakat may only be given to an individual who falls into one of the eight categories of recipients that are mentioned in the following verse of the Quran. Zakat belongs only to the poor, those short of […]
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Islamic View on Noah and Science

Was Noah’s Flood Global or Local?

November 10, 2025
Q. Atheism has decisively disproven traditional God-claims through the advance of modern science. For example, the flood myth that you cite in your video has been conclusively proven false. A global flood event conflicts with modern geology and the belief that all life forms descended from the inhabitants of an ark conflicts with the evolutionary […]
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Level 1 Basira Online Courses

Level 1 of the Basira Seminary Curriculum is Complete!

November 10, 2025
We are excited to announce the completion of the first of the four levels of the Basira Seminary Curriculum. The Basira Seminary Curriculum (now for both Adults and Teens) begins with our flagship course, Why Islam is True. Since its launch only two semesters ago, over a hundred students have taken this course and for many […]
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Islam & Atheism

Giant Turtles, Big Bang Cosmology, and the End of Materialism

November 10, 2025
Hamza Karamali has published an article explaining how Big Bang cosmology spells the end of scientific materialism and how that should bring religion, particularly traditional Islamic theology, back into the scientific and philosophical mainstream. Read the article on the Traversing Traditions website: Has Religion Made a Comeback?
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Islamic View on Death

Why Do We Die?

November 10, 2025
Why do we die? A materialist might answer that we die because our body stops working—our breathing, our heartbeat, our brain activity, everything, stops. We saw in the previous episode that this materialist is wrong—we are not our bodies, but our souls, and although our death is accompanied by bodily changes, it is not those […]
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Making Dua

What Should We Do When We Are About to Die?

November 10, 2025
Each and every one of us will, one day, be on the verge of our deaths, staring at the end of our lives, the end of our choices, the end of our actions. We will only take with us what we did before that time. There will be no going back, and there will be […]
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What is the Self? (Part 1)

November 10, 2025
Part 1: The Human Soul, its Original Beauty (fitra), and its Corruption Osama:  In our previous conversation, you spoke about the nature of true love, and how it relates to the purpose of life. Discourse about love is often associated with the self, the heart and the soul, all of which are terms that I […]
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