Lecture by īmān Abdullah Hasan | Transcribed by Zara T. [The following is the video and transcript of imām Abdullah Hasan's lecture "Seeking Knowledge & Recognising Allāh's Blessings." The transcript includes slight modifications for the sake of readability and clarity.] The lecture can be viewed here. As a preamble I want to ... Read More »
This is Dr. Aafia Siddiqui's story in visual form. The artist Christopher Towne is a young anti-war activist. He blogs here. Towne has given Muslimmatters.org exclusive permission to share his graphic novel. He says “the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is both strange and disturbing. The so-called “War on Terror” demands ... Read More »
Follow Shaykh Waleed on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ShaykhWaleedBasyouni As a young adult, one of the blessings that Allāh bestowed upon me was being able to grow up in the city of Riyadh at a time when it held some of the greatest scholars in the world. Being able to be in the ... Read More »
Spring break is a great time to create some memories. The kids are not only out of school, but they're going into vacation expecting and hoping to be doing lots of fun stuff. It's only natural for them to want to go back and share stories with their friends about what they did on their vacation. Help make it special. Read More »
Snowflakes Playing “Ring Around the Rosie” by Nur Kose I leaned forward in my seat and stared, stumped, at the laptop screen. This essay topic seemed just about impossible and I was finding it extremely difficult to figure out what to write. Suddenly, my sister Huda pushed my room door ... Read More »
It's interesting how quickly news spreads on the internet without a simple checking of sources. Making the rounds on social media and certain websites is a story that James Holmes, dubbed the “Dark Knight killer” for opening fire at a screening of the The Dark Knight Rises in Aurora, Colorado, ... Read More »
I still remember those blue eyes, clearly visible behind thick, plastic glasses. I still remember the big, smiling face, the face of Professor Nuruddeen Julapular, who was one of my earliest teachers during the college years. Under the shaykh, I studied the science of hadeeth. Sh. Nurualdeen was Turkish, and I found it very interesting that he was a hadeeth scholar while being from Turkey, a land better known for producing scholars of Fiqh. Curious about his choice to pursue the study of Hadeeth, and not one to shy away from asking the questions on my mind, I once asked him, "Teacher, what made you interested in this particular field of knowledge while most scholars from your region specialize in Hanafi Fiqh?" He first responded with a single unexpected word. "Zucchini." Read More »
By Andrew Purcell I haven't really been keeping a diary. It just seemed to be a format that worked well. It is not strictly chronological, but it tells the story. Everything I write here is something I saw, both through interacting with Aafia and her family and sitting through her ... Read More »
The heart falls ill as the body does; its cure is in repentance and a spiritual regimen. It gets tarnished as a mirror does; its polish is dhikr. It feels exposed as the body does: its robe is piety (taqwa). It hungers and thirsts like the body does: its sustenance is gnosis, love, repentance and divine service. Read More »
On International Women's Day, March 8th, 2013, anti-war, civil liberties, and Muslim activists, along with college students and families joined hands in demanding the repatriation of political prisoner Dr. Aafia Siddiqui back to her home country of Pakistan, and the compassionate release of Attorney Lynne Stewart. The peaceful protest was held outside ... Read More »
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