After reading a recent blog discussion about poor translations of Arabic texts, including the Quran, I though it would be worth reconsidering our insistence on using...
While death is a subject often discussed in khutbahs and duroos and something that I’d heard and read about from an Islamic point of view, I’d...
A powerful and descriptive talk by Shaykh Yasir Qadhi on Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (RA), the first wife of the Prophet (SAW). This talk was given in...
We hasten unto them with good things (in this worldly life so that they will have no share of good things in the Hereafter)? Nay, but...
Part of an ongoing series: The Literary Beauty of the Quran “Alhamdulillah” – A Linguistic Miracle Expressions for Giving and Getting Help in Qur’an On the...
One of the challenges of doing Da’wah in a multicultural society is in being able to effectively reach out, push past, and touch the hearts of...
The following paper was submitted as a homework assignment for the AlMaghrib Heavenly Hues course taught by Shaykh Yaser Birjas in Houston. The assignment was to...
I was visiting the community in Macon, Georgia yesterday and a friend asked me the difference between two very interesting words in the Qur’an, both of...
Dawah in India is a hot item as of late. Organizations like Islamic Research Foundation, an India-based Dawah project headed by Dr. Zakir Naik, has been...
It seems that I am gradually becoming MuslimMatters’ unofficial media correspondent, as I now blog about yet another documentary concerning a Muslim minority community. But perhaps...