This article addresses some fundamental questions, misconceptions, and “truths” about this often misunderstood and controversial issue of Taqlid, including: The etymology, literal and religious meaning of...
First a khutbah from last Friday on The Good Things of This World, delivered at Masjid at-Taqwa in Brooklyn, And this video, from a fund raiser...
The family down the street from me has a 20-foot-long effigy of a body hanging from the branch of a tree in their front lawn. It...
“Manners maketh man,” insisted William of Wykeham, the fourteenth century English churchman and Chancellor of England to Richard II. So significant is this wisdom that it...
*Update: See results from this comprehensive poll on Pakistan politics. Nawaz leads the pack interestingly. Courtesy “Procrastination” blog.* Compare Pakistani masses to American masses. In 2004,...
You’d think it must be a horribly weak faith if it requires a violent video game to attract teenagers to practice it. It must be a...
This is a bit of a change of pace from the Ramadan posts, but it’s a timely article that was recently in the New York Times...
Assalaamu alaykum wa rahmatullaah, Rather than writing a long article, I had wanted to pose a question to our readers. One of the major obstacles that...
The Economist has an interesting piece on the growing importance of the “Muslim market” in the United States and how companies are adapting to it. They...
This is a decisive issue in some communities, and the subject of many heated debates online. After taking the Code Evolved class from AlMaghrib and doing...
