By Fatima Barkatulla It was the day after the second Paris attack. Our local Muslim school sent parents a text-message telling them that security guards would...
By KN Gratwick Some of us excel in math, some in fine arts, and there is of course the rare talent who does both. Our interests...
I don’t remember too much from 1990, except for the excitement that came over me when I went to watch Home Alone and Teenage Mutant Ninja...
A beautiful lesson taught to us by Fudhayl ibn Iyadh, Abdullah ibn AlMubarak, and a servant of Allah who was close to him, and unknown to...
“During my daily commute, I suffer enormously with the transportation problem. For me it is the greatest obstacle in my daily life. It is impossible to...
Let me introduce you to Hassan. He is an artist with an imagination that runs wild with more creativity in his little finger than most of...
“Don’t allow yourself to be drawn into someone else’s version of ‘the cause.’ No one can do it all, not even those saying you should...
By Hooyo Said (a pseudonym) I write this on the evening that I told my daughter’s Qur’an teacher that I wanted my child to quit memorising...
When I first began writing what would eventually become the novel His Other Wife, it wasn’t about marriage or polygamy, or even romantic relationships. It was...
First, we must acknowledge the hypocrisy: That is, how college and pro football players can make a play that sends thousands of fans in the stadium...