The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
During the month of Ramadan, Muslims worldwide engage in a special night prayer known as Taraweeh. In this article, I...
It’s hard for non-Americans to reconcile the perception of our power as the globe’s only real superpower and our public’s political naiveté at times. However, truth...
It has been narrated that Imam Al-Hasan Al-Basri said about hypocrisy: “مَا أَمِنَهُ إِلَّا مُنَافِقٌ، وَمَا خَافَهُ إِلَّا مُؤْمِنٌ,” which means no one feels safe from into...
Devastated and broken while suffering for years in silence, a 20 year old girl spent her short life misunderstood and ridiculed not only by her peers,...
There’s this article I haven’t written yet, the one where I confess to struggling with depression. In that soul-baring masterpiece I finally admit to sleeping too...
A shaheed? I thought bitterly. Is that what we’re calling it now? Well, Red saved my life, so maybe he was indeed a shaheed. Maybe his...
By Jamila Hanan The plight of the Rohingya, you must have heard about it by now: one million people living in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma,...
Love was in the air at the masjid on Valentine’s Day 2016. As a youth group teacher for our masjid’s Sunday School, I organized a panel...
All praise is due to Allah, Lord of the worlds. “When My slaves ask you [O Muhammad] about me, [tell them] I am near; I respond...
Islam is a complete and comprehensive religion. All the guidance that we could possibly need can be found within the teachings of the Qur’ān and Sunnah....
Everyone in the United States with some basics civics knowledge knows that the Constitution of the United States has a bill of rights with 10 Amendments...
