The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
This Ramadan, MuslimMatters is pleased to host the Institute Of Knowledge‘s daily Ramadan series: Keys to the Divine Compass. Through this series,...
The sun was going down. Safaa had never called me back. I should go home and rest, but I wanted to pursue this lead. My wounded...
“Your possessions and your children are only a trial, and Allah it is with Whom is a great reward.” – Quran 64:15 I was sitting in...
As the intra-GCC conflict digs its heels in deeper, it is important to acknowledge that no single party is one hundred percent correct, that not every...
In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Grantor of Mercy In his famous book, al-Fawâ’id, Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allah bestow mercy upon him) strings...
“I don’t know why you’d want to live with all that anger and bitterness!” a woman said in response to a survivor who’d expressed that she...
Muslims leaders in reaction to the Donald Trump effect have created alliances with far-left liberals. Post-modern world views intrinsically challenge the authority of revealed scripture and...
I went for Hajj last year and I had started packing three months before we left! I know it’s crazy, but I was really confused and...
“And the male is not like the female” [1] I. Introduction In April 2015, Olympic gold medal-winning decathlete Bruce Jenner declared publicly his formal reconstitution as...
A methodological approach to ancient Sunni dream interpretation: Without a doubt, among the types of knowledge and the varieties of inherited wisdom with which scholars occupy...
Shaykh Muhammad al-Hasan Wald al-Dadaw (b.1383/1963) (sometimes spelt: Muhammad al-Hassan al-Amin Walid al-Didu/Dedew al-Shanqiti) is a contemporary Mauritanian scholar who is rarely described without resorting to...