Raya Shokatfard

By: Raya Shokatfard A person who has made his/her declaration of faith in Islam has entered a blessed and honored stage unlike any other in this world. A bright white path, free of past sins and delusions has just emerged in the new life and a world of wonder and much unknown at the horizon. How does one move forward in faith and maintain a strong relationship with God and face challenges that new Muslims may encounter? With certainty, the new revert has willingly chosen this path after...

By: Raya Shokatfard I would like to remind you about the importance of Fajr prayer, the dawn prayer. This is the time that a person gets closer to the Creator. Praying in this time is a blessed time; and after praying reading the Quran and pondering upon the Book of Allah (SWT). This blessed time is so important, not only we have to read the Quran, but also we have to understand it. To understand it, we have to seek knowledge from other books, the books of Tafsir or concordances that explain...

By: Raya Shokatfard Part 1 We talked in the last episode about the creation, how it happened, and how Adam and Eve erred and disobeyed God’s commandments, and how they basically had to leave Paradise, but it was not something that just happened by accident. We understood the role of Satan and how he from his jealousy, he disobeyed God to bow down to Adam when God created him; he was expelled, and he also caused Adam and Eve to be expelled by tempting them to disobey God and eat of a certain...