It was something I learned very young: Never say the word kaafir. I didn’t know Arabic at the time, but I knew it was worse than...
You're not expected to try to make everyone happy, nor is it possible. That's not Islam. Respect for others is vital, but in the end we...
How It Changed Me By Hufsa Lodhi Shaking hands. Sweaty palms. Endless butterflies gnawing at your stomach. Defined as the typical feeling of nervousness, it has...
Post-Racial? Racism is a complicated issue. Racial prejudice has persisted in America despite the evolution of countervailing social norms that not only undermine the rationales that...
By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) There has been a certain reluctance on the part of classical scholars when it comes to defining love (mahabbah). It is not...
By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) This is a short piece translated from Ibn Qudamah’s Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin. It distills a picture the Quran and ahadeeth build up of the...
Ramadan has always been a time for me to make new resolutions and reflect on the past so that I can grow as a person and...
By: Sawitri Mardyani (Phd) It seems like a completely outrageous claim, doesn’t it? Especially if you’ve tried to study Arabic before. You know how many weeks, months, years...
This article was originally posted here. By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) ‘There are times where my heart feels clouded (innahu la yughanu ‘ala qalbi); and I...
Timeline: Towards the end of Fall semester 2012, my friend Omar and I were talking about how excited he and I were that he was going...
