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 Khateeb's killing it this Friday! …Literally. 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. Every Friday morning, Muslims with a Y chromosome (and a bunch with two X's) around the globe get ready for their weekly ... Read More »
To be honest- it isn't easy satirizing this issue because the dark jokes strike deep at a profoundly sad reality that we're now facing- that we as Muslims have done far greater damage to the name, reputation, and teachings of our Beloved Prophet [saw] than any inflammatory video, cartoon, depiction, or insult ever possibly hope to. Read More »
Gift-giving is a highly-refined and deeply intricate art, and fortunately for you, here's a quick 5-step guide to show you the tips and tricks that’ll make your Eid gifts unforgettable this year. Read More »
My dear brothers and sisters, Ramadan is finally here! That special time of the year where our divinely-ordained worship blossoms into a beautiful month of passionate devotion, rigorous spiritual purification, profound remembrance, deep self-reflection, unshakable inner tranquility, and selfless compassion. Read More »
Beards are all the rage on the streets of Egypt...or something. If Egyptians collectively and publicly acknowledged their relationship status with male facial hair, "It's complicated" would be an understatement. From entrenched social norms, to religious connotations, to political overtones, walking around with a beard in Cairo is anything but "3aadi." Read More »
What exactly is it that motivates Muslims to attend Islamic events? What makes an Islamic event look attractive (and I don't just mean the lame, "masha'Allah this is attractive, I shall go, yallah habibi." I'm taking about the holy-moly-mega-masha'Allah-lower-your-gaze level of Islamic event attractiveness that huge Islamic National Conferences get). Read More »
Little Mosque reminds us that the vision of a pluralistic community co-existing is neither new nor impossible. Its message was simple: Set aside your prejudice, give up your spiritual pride and be a good neighbor. Read More »
Amongst all of the wonderful things that most High School Seniors look forward to, there's one event that every faithful Muslim brother and sister utterly dreads. Read More »
Not surprisingly, the internet is now the boxing ring for our new generation of Shaykh Googles and Mufti Wikipedias to profess their scholarly expertise and argue with one another with far more advanced tools of divisiveness, or as they say nowadays according to modern cyber tajwīd: "trolling." Read More »
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