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Every Deen article in one place. Search them, filter by topic, or follow a reading path from the Qur'an and the Prophet ﷺ through hadith and the schools to money and Islam in Australia.
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Reflections on faith, practice, and living deliberately.
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The Qur'an: What It Is, How It Came Down, and How It Was Kept
A guide for anyone curious about the Qur'an: the world it came into, how it was revealed over 23 years, how it was written down and kept, why Muslims say not one word has changed, and a tour of all 114 chapters.
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Ramadan and Fasting in Australia
The same rules as my parents' Ramadan, in very different circumstances: what the Qur'an says, what breaks a fast in each school, why Sydney mosques start on different days, and the likely 2027 dates.
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Prayer (ṣalāh): How and Why
What actually happens on the prayer mat, five times a day: the words, what they mean, the times in Sydney, and where the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfiʿī, Ḥanbalī and Jaʿfarī schools do it differently.
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Belief in God, the Prophets and the Unseen
Every Muslim creed starts with one God, unlike anything. The arguments begin after that: His hand and Throne, seeing Him, the created Qur'an, free will. Five schools of theology, set side by side.
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The Five Pillars and the Six Articles of Faith
Where the five pillars and six articles of faith actually come from: one conversation in the mosque at Medina, set beside the Twelver roots and branches.
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The Sunna in Daily Life
How the Prophet greeted people, ate, slept, dressed and spoke, habit by habit, with every report linked and graded, and the famous sayings that turn out to have no reliable chain.
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Halal Food in Australia
What the Qur'an forbids, how slaughter works, where the five schools differ on stunning, seafood, gelatine and alcohol, and what a halal logo on an Australian product does and does not tell you.
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Sufism: Origins, Orders and Critiques
What Sufism is, where it came from and how the orders work, from al-Junayd and al-Ghazālī to Konya, Ajmer and Broken Hill, with the critiques from Ibn Taymiyya to the Salafis and the Sufi replies.
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Women in Islam: Texts and Interpretations
The verses and hadith every argument about women in Islam comes back to, read three ways: by the classical commentators, by traditional scholars today, and by reformist scholars. Sources for each.
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Death, the Grave and the Afterlife
What the Qur'an and the sound hadith say about dying, the grave, the Day and the Garden and Fire, and what a family actually does, from the bedside to burial in NSW and Victoria.
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Zakat in Practice
Who owes zakat, on what, and how much: the gold and silver thresholds, jewellery, shares and super, giving to family, Twelver khums, and paying in Australia, with a calculator.