Jama Masjid India

Description:  Allah conveys His message to humanity through prophets and messengers. What was the nature of these messengers and the message they brought? Were they humans with divine attributes? This lesson sheds light on the answers. Objectives ·         To learn and understand the need and purpose for messengers to be sent to mankind. ·         To learn what belief in the messengers entails. ·         To become familiar with the nature of the messengers and the message they brought. Belief in messengers is a required article of Islamic faith. “The Messenger (Muhammad) believes in what has been sent down to him from his Lord, and (so do) the believers.  Each one believes in Allah, His Angels, His Books, and His Messengers.  (They say,) ‘We make no distinction between one another of His Messengers’” (Quran 2:285) Allah conveys His message to humanity th...

Description:  A Hindu girl marries a pious assistant of a swami, but one who later looks to other religions for enlightenment. Sister Nishani (previously known as Indrani) and her husband, Brother Rafiq (previously known as Chandara) shared with Sister Muneerah Al-Idros, their path toward embracing Islam. Indrani was 6 years old when her father died.  Her mother stopped praying as she felt that god had been unfair to make her a widow with 5 little children.  Indrani and here brothers and sisters were brought up as nominal Hindus.  They had neither an altar nor pictures of gods in their house, as many Hindus do. When Indrani was 10 years old she began to love god.  She collected pictures of Hindu gods and goddesses and worshipped them at home.  She felt the need to pray and thought it was odd that, unlike other Hindu families, her family performed few Hindu rites. During her teenage years, Indrani started going to temple thrice weekly.  She enc...