Probably the most intense component of salat is sajdah. No other position expresses worship and obedience as powerfully as bowing all the way down with your...
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self,”ย wrote Aldous Huxley, the English novelist best known...
Here in Canada, the “voting with veils” controversy has resurfaced in the media and political spectrum. Way back in March, I linked to an article that...
Six years ago still seems like yesterday. The sequence of events that morning are still vivid in my mind. I remember walking to the student center...
A few weeks ago, I was sitting in the local masjid waiting for the jumuah khutbah, and an old uncle tapped me on the shoulder and...
Note: This has been written in direct response to something that happened locally, but which I think is general enough to apply to everyone and everywhere...
Ustadh Abu Easa has written a must-read introduction (I had the word “teaser” in my mind but it takes away from some of the importance of...
As I read the latest article in Time about Mother Teresa’s crisis of faith my head swirled with questions. Some about Mother Teresa herself, and others...
I spent the last week on vacation, hiking in and around Mammoth Lakes, California. I haven’t had an actual vacation in a while, so it was...
Abul Hussein presents some interesting discussion points (here and here) in response to Yahya Birt’s comments on Deenport. On a related tangent, Br. Yahya (on his...
