But now Davis was sitting in a Lahore police station, having shot two young men who approached his car on a black motorcycle, their guns drawn, at an intersection congested with cars, bicycles and rickshaws. Read More »
Dr. O blogs at Muslim Medicine, a site that strives to serve only the freshest grade-A certified ẓabiḥah ḥalāl comedy. Contact your local ḥalāl butcher for more details. For generations, the age-old gender battle between hormonally-repressed stalker brothers and utterly creeped-out sisters has been waged from college campuses to Mosque common areas, and to this day ... Read More »
The 'unmosqued' discussion has spawned a host of conversations, coffee shop conversations, desi dinner party fodder, tweetable soundbites, virally shared facebook updates, and even a couple of blog articles right here on MuslimMatters. To say that this topic interests me is an understatement (I even started a website dedicated to trying to ... Read More »
A Short Story By Umm Zakiyyah “You should really consider accepting their offer,” Mona said. Barakah sighed as she balanced the cell phone between her shoulder and ear as she finished typing an email to the editor of the university newspaper. “It's too much to think about right now,” Barakah ... Read More »
In many communities, the very place that was meant to bring Muslims together has become an anathema for the community— associated with fighting, control, and divisions like little fiefdoms. Read More »
Today we will hear from a teenager from North Carolina who will be sharing how she feels about the hijab. What Hijab Means to Me by Hufsa Lodhi Freedom is the true sense of well-being in which you feel as if you can accomplish anything, liberated of burden. It is ... Read More »
The options to drive you away from the masjid are many, it's simply a matter of picking your poison. I move around a lot and I've seen many of the social-media shared gripes up close and personal. I've seen masjids where: Kids are welcome to riot during the ṣalāh, and ... Read More »
I believe this three-minute trailer threw our mosques under the bus. It opened the door for its audience to blame all of their problems on the mosque, and take no responsibility for their own actions. Read More »
Follow Shaykh Waleed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShaykhWaleedBasyouni For many years of my youth, I used to spend the last ten days of Ramadan in Mecca. My favorite sitting spot was on the first floor in the Ottoman construction area between Al-Rukn Al-Yamani and the Hijr, and it was there that I would ... Read More »
There's nothing wrong having distaste towards things Allah (SWT) doesn't like, but be careful of turning someone's flaws into a cause for unchecked hatred. I recall Shaykh Yusuf Estes once telling a friend, "How can you call them to Islam (meaning non-Muslims, but even Muslims constantly require daw'ah) if you hate them?" Read More »
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