Once I was picking up a scholar from a trip, he was dragging his carry on behind him and as I reached to take it from...
A friend of mine had a child and named him the same name as mine. Sudanese tradition is that when a person names their child after...
There once was a lad who couldn’t lower his gaze, Distraught and disappointed he tried many ways, Finally he decided to go to a shaykh well...
It’s always a pleasure when Shaykh Salah Al-Sawy comes to town. I try to make sure that I have no plans, and if I do have...
I had taken a course called “Love Notes” with Shaykh Yaser Birjas. And he introduced us to the classic treatise on Love by Ibn Hazm Al-Andalusi,...
One of the most consistent things you will hear that stand out to non-Muslims who enter the Muslim world is the hospitality they experience. That doesn’t...
When you think of the messenger of Allah , you think of someone who lived a FULL and HAPPY life, always smiling. Yet, his life could...
His status in history isn’t debated, A question to be asked then, why is the greatest man, when great men are rated.. the one that you...
Last night, after isha prayer, people in the masjid broke up into the circles that they always do, socializing and tending to different issues. One of...
Here is the initial attempt at a witr du’a that is palatable for the English ear.