Dear Aunty, The biggest mistake I have seen mothers make when it comes to their daughters who are looking to get married is that mothers unreasonably...
โToo much admiration breeds contempt. It is better, I think, to just be understood.โ โthe character Salima in His Other Wife by Umm Zakiyyah ~ โItโs...
By Fatima Barkatulla It was the day after the second Paris attack. Our local Muslim school sent parents a text-message telling them that security guards would...
The United States is one of few countries in the world that has testamentary free alienation of property. What this means is that you can...
By Hiba Akhtar Someone texted a friend of mine a few weeks ago looking for khutbah topics. โFlint,โ she replied. It seemed obvious. We live in...
By KN Gratwick Some of us excel in math, some in fine arts, and there is of course the rare talent who does both. Our interests...
And do not insult one another and do not call each other by [offensive] nicknames. Wretched is the name of disobedience after...
Another issue that I commonly faced in the MSA was dealing with the social dynamic of planning events as a group. ย Whereas the first post in...
For once, Donald Trump was the honest one. Asked on MSNBCโs โMorning Joeโ program whom he consults with on foreign policy issues, he said โIโm speaking...
By Ahmed Rehab Unfortunately, once again we wake up to scenes of chaos and mayhem, this time in Brussels, as major attacks kill 26 and wound...