Today is ‘Ashuraa’, a day we fast in commemoration of our beloved Prophet Musa’s safe escape from Fir’awn and his tyranny. I would like to share...
How do we distinguish a scholar from a da‘i, motivational speaker or ‘knowledgeable brother or sister’? What are the proper qualifications for true scholarship? How serious a sin is giving fatwas and religious rulings without...
Not all the narratives of the prophets of Islam can be found within the Qur’an but the ones that are present within the speech of Allah...
By Hamza Andreas Tzortzis ‘And We created not the heavens and the earth, and all that is between them, for mere play.’[1] [The Qur’an] A popular...
It is narrated in Sahih al-Bukhari that when the angel of death came to Prophet Musa he punched him and popped his eye out. The angel...
A pink yoga mat is laid out on the hard wood floor. In a crisp white coat Lani*, the hijama practitioner, takes the Made in Korea...
To believe in the tenets of faith makes one a believer. But the believers have another goal too: wilaya. Wilaya is a personal relationship with Allah...
The chapter of Light contains the verse of light; one of the most commented upon verses in the Qur’an. In verse 35, Allah sets forth a...
Zakat, that economic act of worship often paid in Ramadan we regard as the third pillar of Islam, is increasingly becoming a hollow shell. If you’d...
“When we were young, every Ramadan, we had to complete one recitation of the Quran because my dad made us. There was no question of not...
