Islamic Posters

Islamic Outreach is producing a set of beautiful and thought-provoking posters on Islamic topics which are uploaded here. It will feature women's issues, human rights, equality of humanity, science in the Qur'an and other timely topics. You are free to download, send to your friends and even print them.   Islamic Outreach – Reaching out to those of all faiths

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AWARENESS THROUGH MOSQUE TOURS -Bringing People Closer to Islam

Da’wah or inviting people to Islam is an important duty of the Muslim community. This is especially so since no Messenger of Allah will appear after our beloved Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him). In fact, the Qur’an makes numerous references to spreading the message of Islam through beautiful preaching. Our Prophet (PBUH) also cast upon his followers the duty …

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Workshop on Mosque Tours

The Centre for Islamic Studies is organizing a full-day workshop on Mosque Tours on Saturday, 12th April. The sessions will commence at 10.00 am and continue till 4.00 pm. The program will comprise of a lecture on Reaching out to those of Other Faiths by Dr.Ghazali Basri and Sharing of Experiences on Mosque Tours by Sister Normah Sulaiman and her team from Malaysia. The workshop is meant to …

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Awareness Through Mosque Tour (ATMT) to commence at Wekanda Mosque

The Awareness Through Mosque Tour (ATMT) program spearheaded by the Centre for Islamic Studies (CIS) will commence from early February this year, Insha Allah. The pilot project will commence at Wekanda Mosque, Slave Island, to be followed by the Red Mosque (Sammankot Mosque) also known as Jamiul Alfar in the Pettah area of Colombo and Masjidul Abrar, the oldest existing …

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Srilankan Tour of Imam Fadel Solimon (Egypt)

on 14th,15th and 16th of December  A member of the International Union of Muslim Scholars who received his Masters degree in Shariah in 2008.ImamFadel is an international speaker and presenter of Islam, he gave his  presentations to more than 65,000 in the U.S.A. and other countries throughout the world. One of his lecture in youtbe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dCtFDeNTTQ   Website: http://www.bridges-foundation.org/   For registration for …

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Some Great Inventions by Muslims

Coffee The story goes that an Arab named Khalid was tending his goats in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia, when he noticed hi s animals became livelier after eating a certain berry. He boiled the berries to make the first coffee. Certainly the first record of the drink is of beans exported from Ethiopia to Yemen where Sufis drank …

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Are Shari’ah Laws really harsh? By Asiff Hussein

We in the modern world often tend to look at the punishments prescribed in the Shari’ah as something really harsh. Beheading for murder, stoning to death for adultery and amputating hands for theft sometimes strike us as punishments that belong to another age and unsuited for the times we live in. However little do we stop to think that Islam …

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