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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 »

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 »

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 »

And you thought parking in the middle of New York City was bad? You ain't seen NOTHING yet. Read More »

An ode to (and lament of) the legendary driving found only on the streets of Egypt's capital city. Read More »

If Superheroes were Muslims: More Supervillains would convert to Islam than die Read More »

Welcome to the another edition of MuslimMatters.org's regular Islamic Art feature. If you want to see your work on MM, then either email us your images to art[@]muslimmatters[.]org or submit them to our Flickr group. The following are a selection of comic strips produced by brother Abu Ilyas, for his ... Read More »

I don’t know how many of us would have taken this job, had it been presented to us in this way. Read More »