The following is an excerpt from the book Fiqh of Social Media: Timeless Islamic Principles for Navigating the Digital Age by Omar Usman. Click here to...
The subject of female Islamic scholarship has slowly begun to gather more attention over the last decade or so, spearheaded in many ways by the incredible...
In recent years, I have noticed an increase in the number of Western Muslims celebrating Christmas in different capacities. This may be more understandable for those...
On February 3, 2021, the great scholar Murabit Ahmad Fal passed away in Mauritania. He was from the Massuma clan which is known for producing ulema....
“I can’t do this anymore,” the woman told me. “All this praying and fasting and staying away from sex, hoping I’ll get married one day. What’s...
In a Muslim Matters exclusive, I sat down with NBA Champion and activist, Stephen Jackson, to speak about his conversion to Islam, along with Tone Trump,...
“[W]hen I barely knew how to speak Wolof, my mother tongue, I had been enrolled in a school to learn Arabic and the Qur’an. As it...
New Muslims face many obstacles in their journey to Allah, and would you believe, old Muslims can be one of them? What are some of the...
Part 1 15. As to the question of charging extortionate fees and exorbitant honorariums for teaching or da‘wah – a serpent that is now in the garden – with what good...
The Prophet ﷺ helped the Arabs overcome their asabiya (tribalism) and enter a new defining bond of Islam. The criterion for right and wrong was no...