Forty is a special age. It’s the quintessential age of mid-life. It’s older than ‘young’, but younger than ‘old’. It’s an age where one has typically...
When I first heard about teenage girls in the West leaving their homes to join ISIS, I couldn’t begin to fathom how and why they would...
A Follow-up to Blurred Lines: Women, “Celebrity” Shaykhs, and Spiritual Abuse by Ustadha Zaynab Ansari In the Name of God, the Lord of Mercy, the Giver...
A couple of months ago, I spent a few days in Arizona during Major League Baseball’s annual spring training. If you’ve never been, spring training is...
By Ustadha Zaynab Ansari You who believe, uphold justice and bear witness to God, even if it is against yourselves, your parents, or your close relatives....
See Previous parts: FearBusters: Conquering our Fears, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5 Part 6: Fear of Change Have you ever asked yourself...
The biggest challenge of parenting is to accept that we are facing a world very different from the one in which we grew up. This is...
The Word “Dhurriyyah” was mentioned 32 times in the Qur’an in 19 different surahs. This points to the significance of the word “Dhurriyyah,” which means offspring...
“None of us like judgmental people. But we are all, to a certain extent, judgmental people. After all, one must be judgmental to even judge others...
Pop psychology has this unique ability to take the worst of philosophical sophistry, combine it with the shoddiest research methods, and spit out ill-begotten, yet Scientific™,...
