The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
The words “Guantanamo Bay” hardly need much introduction. Opened amongst the hysteria and bloodthirst of a post-9/11 world, this detention...
This is a guest post by one of our readers, Um Imran. Bismillah Irrahman Irraheem These are some thoughts on the recent killings of two young...
Farmocracy Experiment 1 | 2 | 3 Please read Farmocracy Experiment for background and sense of where I am going with this. Eventually, the will of the parrots on both sides broke down,...
I was visiting the community in Macon, Georgia yesterday and a friend asked me the difference between two very interesting words in the Qur’an, both of...
Dawah in India is a hot item as of late. Organizations like Islamic Research Foundation, an India-based Dawah project headed by Dr. Zakir Naik, has been...
It seems that I am gradually becoming MuslimMatters’ unofficial media correspondent, as I now blog about yet another documentary concerning a Muslim minority community. But perhaps...
Introduction Part One: The Islamic Beliefs Regarding Salvific Exclusivity It is a fundamental belief of Muslims that Islam is not only a divinely revealed religion from...
When I began high school, I attended a local Friday night youth group halaqh. One night, the brother preparing the talk for the night handed out...
The Many Paths to God? Introduction As Muslims living in the West, we are faced with a myriad of legal, religious and political problems that our...
Recently, the UK PM, Gordon Brown, proposed that in order to tackle the problem of organ donor shortages, the current “opt-in” system should be replaced with...
Do not cast yourselves, with your own hands, into destruction [Quran 2-195] There is such things as differences of opinions, fundamental theological differences, different fiqh, etc....
