In the Name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful Recent events exposing systemic abuse in various Islamic and other religious...
This Ramadan, MuslimMatters is pleased to host the Institute Of Knowledge‘s daily Ramadan series: Keys to the Divine Compass. Through this series,...
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...
“Too much admiration breeds contempt. It is better, I think, to just be understood.” —the character Salima in His Other Wife by Umm Zakiyyah ~ “It’s...
By Dr Hatem Al Haj The issue of slavery may be of the hardest issues to discuss. Our collective conscience as a global community is extremely...
Back in the 1950s when Hitchcock released Psycho, the motion picture association sent the picture back. They couldn’t approve film because the of scene where, Norman the killer,...
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. “Flint,” 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. Whereas the first post in...