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If Bashar al-Assad was the only figure able to take advantage of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s “reconversion” of Saint Sophia into a mosque after a mere 85 years as a museum, something must be very wrong with the world’s reaction to the Turkish president’s latest political shenanigans.
FEED THE POOR
Feeding the poor and needy is an act that draws us closer to Allah. We earn His forgiveness, mercies and blessings through this act of charity.
“Anyone who looks after and works for a widow and a poor person is like a warrior fighting for Allah?s cause, or like a person who fasts during the day and prays all night. (Bukhari)
After Erdogan restored the almost 1,500-year old structure – designed by its Christian builders to recreate the Temple of Solomon – to the status of a fully prayed-in, fully functioning, fully muezzined place of worship for Turkey’s Muslim majority, the Americans expressed their …
