This upcoming TDC, Shaykh Omar Husain’s session will be dedicated to addressing accepting failure and building upon our negative experiences to attain happiness. Omar Husain attended...
For new Muslims nothing can be more daunting than dealing with family members’ reactions to the decision of converting to Islam. Parents, siblings, and other relatives...
In December 2005, I formally took my first Imam position at Masjid Abu Bakr in New Orleans where I would serve for 6 years. With the...
Over the last eight months, after painful illnesses which affected them physically and neurologically, both my parents have passed away. While there is so much to...
By Shaykh Arsalan Haque “…there are too many of our masajid that are unwelcoming to women. In some masajid, women are allocated the smelly basement or...
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By Samaiya Mushtaq Soon after I started residency in psychiatry, the movie Spotlight was released, about The Boston Globe’s investigation and groundbreaking story on sexual abuse...
News of the dismissal of Asia Noreen Bibi’s case (a Christian woman accused of blasphemy and imprisoned for almost a decade) in Pakistan has erupted on...
“…There’s an African proverb which is very profound, and it fits – Subhan Allah- directly with this hadith; that if the youth are not initiated into...
Recently, during my last psychotherapy session of the week, I listened to a Muslim woman talk about the details of being sexually abused as a child....
