Living in a non-Muslim society for a relatively long period has provided me an opportunity to try to understand bits and pieces about how new converts to Islam really think about their new lives and what, we, the born-Muslims or long time Muslims could do to help them ease their transition to their journey of …
Eidul Adha, the festival of sacrifice, is on Friday, Zul Hajj 10, 1433 or October 26, 2012 Inshallah. On behalf of the staff at JapaneseMuslims.Com, we wish a very special Eid Mubarak to all the Muslims living in Japan and abroad. The Astronomical New Moon is on October 15, 2012 (Monday) at 12:02 UT. October …
Tokyo Masjid and Yuai International School in Tokyo jointly held their annual `charity bazaar`on Sunday, December 2, 2012. The event turned out as a display of rich cultural blend of the Muslim communities living in the Tokyo Metropolitan area. The event was held in collaboration with various Muslim organizations and mosques from Tokyo and surrounding …
A growing number of attendees in Japanese mosques were either born in Japan or never got a chance to study either Arabic or Urdu, the two main languages being used in most of the mosques in the country. With all the different Muslim ethnic groups in Japan from all over the world, both English and …
The other day, I just bumped into a wonderful presentation on performing Hajj rituals while browsing through the Internet. It is such a wonderful and comprehensive presentation covering almost every single aspect of how to perform Hajj and all its rituals as prescribed by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The PowerPoint presentation was originally uploaded on …