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...
What a trip the past two weeks have been? The last week of December as well as the first week of January is usually dead without...
Good poetry is, in a sense, timeless and immortal. This is not only because it is read by generation after generation of readers, but also because...
By Irum Sarfaraz It is perhaps A matter of thought Or perhaps A matter of experience That we eventually realize That nothing Teaches us More about...
John Donne, the seventeenth-century English poet and preacher, wrote in his Meditations: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of...
By Irum Sarfaraz It is surprising how much one can strengthen one’s iman simply by reading between the lines. I firmly believe that one of the...
If you’ve heard me talk about how I became Muslim, then you know that my attraction to Islam began while browsing in bookstores in the Brooklyn...
I’ve just discovered my newest pet peeve: misogynistic women. That is, those women who believe in and perpetuate gender-related stereotypes… the most common one being that of...
The Qur’an; A Literary Marvel There is enough academic work on the literary beauty of the Qur’an from grammatical, rhetorical, linguistic & other perspectives to take...
