One of the things that happens with historical figures who continue to remain well-known and influential years after they can continue to speak for themselves is that...
Once, while in class at college, an Arab girl I was sitting next to said quite loudly to another, “Hey, give this paper to the ‘abdah”...
Lumping an entire people together for collective punishment, reveling in their suffering, and sniggering at their food choices isn’t an exercise in science, Sunnah, or compassion....
Changing the factual past in an attempt to gain political authority is one of the paradoxes of modern populism, where the target audience is presented a...
“How did you convert to Islam” is a question that is commonly asked to those who convert to Islam. While the short answer to this question...
I have spent about a decade serving the impoverished domestically and recently, abroad. I don’t work for a major charity organization, I work for my community,...
While discussing an emotionally-heavy issue, my therapist brought up the point that in life we can reach a point of acceptance in regards to our difficult...
The way most Muslims (as well as conservative Christians and Jews) live, a man asks for a woman’s hand in marriage from the father. The father...
In recent years, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, a notable Islamic scholar from North America, has gained global prominence by supporting efforts by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
A short survey on what leading scholars and the four schools of law (madhhabs) have to say on the issue
