This Ramadan, MuslimMatters reached out to our regular (and not-so-regular) crew of writers asking them to share their reflections on various ayahs/surahs of the Quran, ideally...
“Someone at school has two dads and it’s got a Muslim kid all muddled about what marriage is. Get the lowdown on Allah’s gift to humans...
“To lose one parent is misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” – Oscar Wilde If I am to take Mr Wilde’s words to heart, I’ve...
Growing up in Jeddah, every evening in Ramadan, we would pile into our car and whiz off to the mosque for Taraweeh prayers to Shoaibi Mosque...
Over the last eight months, after painful illnesses which affected them physically and neurologically, both my parents have passed away. While there is so much to...
This is the story of a cliché. One of the earliest memories I have is one of discontent. Somewhere around the age of 4 or 5,...
Dear Sisters and Brothers, My father died recently. And when I wasn’t nursing my irreparably broken heart or praying for his everlasting happiness in the gardens...
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking,...
It’s really all for her. This whole mad business of trying to make our house of dreams. Just a month or so ago, we moved into...
A few months ago, shortly after it had become certain who was going to be the next American president, my husband sighed, “Well, there goes the...
