Abstract In the post-scriptural exegetical and jurisprudential literature, Sunni Muslim jurists unanimously concurred that reverential prostration (sajda taʿẓīmī) was forbidden...
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم People feel envy for many reasons, including over those things that they see others possess, which they really covet. Envy, or “حسد”...
Update VIII The regime could not stop the Jummah prayers. People are speaking in a unified voice.. Predident Mubarak has not spoken about this situation. People...
By Hira Amin Love is a powerful, compelling emotion. It can make you laugh and it can make you cry. It can lift you up to...
As of Sunday January 23rd, several international news outlets have obtained what has been dubbed the Palestine Papers. For those just now tuning in, these papers...
The case of Jared Loughner and the subsequent treatment of his murderous spree by the media and indeed by the general public, raised familiar cries of...
Bushra, a writer for Muslim Matters interviewed another regular MM contributor Yahya Ibrahim for the second interview in a new occasional weekend series called What’s in...
January is National Soup Month! Soup (soop) n. A liquid food prepared from meat, fish, or vegetable stock combined with various other ingredients and often containing solid...
This week, 34 well-regarded Mauritanian religious and national leaders signed a fatwa, or Islamic law, banning female genital mutilation (FGM). The fatwa is considered a huge...
By Nadene Ghouri from BBC News Deoband, India Forty years after following the hippy trail to South Asia, John Butt is still living in the region,...
Crosspost from JohnTFloyd.com 86-year prison term for Dr. Siddiqui: Victory in Courtroom is Loss on Worldwide Public Stage By: Houston Criminal Lawyer John Floyd and Paralegal...