News Right Now: Deeper TiesThis month “Israeli” President Isaac Herzog met at a joint meeting of congress in the US where he said “Israel thanks the United States for working towards establishing peaceful relations between Israel and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia — a leading nation in the region and in the Muslim world. We pray for this moment to come.”

After Uhud, my brothers, and specifically on the 4th year after Hijra, bad news was reaching the Messenger of Allah (saw). "O Messenger of Allah, Banu Asad are gathering to fight you", "Such-and-such tribe are preparing for an attack" etc. All Jahili tribes now wished to mobilize in order to attack Madinah and eradicate Islam from within it. Of the most dangerous news to reach was that of Hudhayl...

News Right Now: Cultural CollapseLast week 17 year old Nahel Marzoouk was callously shot and killed in cold blood at point blank range during a traffic stop in a Paris suburb near his home. The teenager had no history of criminality or any infractions with the French authorities. He was a law abiding young Muslim who lived with his mother and was still only in high school.

Heroic Stands by Shiekh Abu Nizhar Ash Shaami: Abu Bakr As-Siddiq (ra)There are stands which do not correct the error of individuals or groups only. They are stands through which Allah corrects the error of the entire Ummah. Stands, through which, Allah protects the Ummah from deviating. And this is what manifests itself in the heroic stands that litter the life of Abu Bakr As-Siddeeq (ra).