Lecture by Shaykh Yasir Qadhi | Transcribed by Zara T. [The following is the video and transcript of Shaykh Yasir Qadhi’s khutbah “Making Families Work.” The transcript includes slight...
Today we will be hearing from Zeynep Tuncer, a 12-year-old living in Newark, Delaware who shares how she feels about saying “Alhamdulillah.” Read on to find...
The Qurʾān is not a storybook of wondrous tales and ancient fables, isolated from the realities and complexities of real life. Each verse, in fact, each letter is...
Today we will hear from a teenager from North Carolina who will be sharing how she feels about the hijab. What Hijab Means to Me by...
Snowflakes Playing “Ring Around the Rosie” by Nur Kose I leaned forward in my seat and stared, stumped, at the laptop screen. This essay topic seemed...
Cross-posted from: http://thehumblei.com/2013/02/04/ibn-al-qayyim-what-matters-at-heart/ ‘A servant is not afflicted with any chastisement greater than a hard heart and of being remote from God. Hardness of the heart...
Cross-posted from http://thehumblei.com/2013/02/23/the-big-freeze-are-you-enclosed-in-a-cage-of-ice/ A well-known hadith states: al-dunya sijn al-mu’min wa jannat al-kafir – ‘The world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever.’[1] Another...
Lecture by Ismail Kamdar | Transcribed by Zara T. The lecture can be viewed here. Asalamualaykum warahmatulahi wabarakatuhu All praise is due to Allah and may Allah’s peace and blessings...
By Maryam Sultan Yellow is my favorite color. It’s the color of the purse my sister gifted me on the day that I completed my...
Many passages in the Qurʾān extol the significance of the soul or nafs. In one celebrated passage, it says: By the soul and Him that formed it, then...