By Nooria Masood In the depths of the darkness When the whole world sleeps There is a quiet disaster Wreaking havoc like a beast The...
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 was always dark by the time I finished the journey there from an hour away. But I didn’t mind — the smooth nighttime drive was always a...
Once, while in college, I was hanging out with some friends in the Masjid lobby. An uncle sat down and started talking to us. After a...
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,...
Lyrics for No More by Shahroz [Verse 1] I hate the way they paint a picture of us, villainous/ a stroke of genius, just a way...
A highly controversial figure, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, from the Netherlands, traveled to study the Hajj in 1885/1302H on a scholarship from the Dutch Government. Once in...
By Razeena Gutta Richard Robinson, President and CEO of Scholastic Inc., in his keynote address at the inaugural Children’s Publishing Conference 2012 noted that a great...
