I know the lofty goals to which we should aspire in Ramadan. This month is a chance to excel in worship of Allah. It is an...
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the local masjid waiting for the jumuah khutbah, and an old uncle tapped me on the shoulder and...
Whenever I arrive back in the US, I always get a special welcome from the folks at the airport…the VIP treatment as I like to call...
I recently spent a few weeks in Fez, Morocco–an icon of what many call “traditional Islam.” Fez is often described as a fully preserved medieval city,...
I was asked to write about the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy in the recent French presidential election. Not knowing too much about French politics, I was...
This entry has been cross-posted at DailyKos.com. Please drop a visit there and comment. In October 2000, I was attending jumuah prayer in a Philadelphia mosque,...
We know the ideal. When we encounter the statements of Allah and His messenger, we hear and we obey. But in a splintered ummah, in a...
