Back in the mid 90s, when I was a newly single mom living a life that swung between elation at my freedom from an oppressive marriage...
Far beyond the rusted iron bars On the window of my home I see a world that is utopia to me It watches its children grow...
Who ever thought that glitz and glamour would be associated with being a “talib al-‘ilm”? Did anyone ever imagine that being a “student of knowledge” would...
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...
Last Thursday (February 21), the Houston Chronicle, my hometown paper, published an editorial discussing the Archbishop of Canterbury’s recent remarks about integrating sharia-based courts into the...
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...
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...
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I participated in the campaign to send eid cards to Muslim prisoners started by Umar Lee. A few weeks ago I received a response from Maaz...
Something nice I received.. A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play around it everyday. He...
