This fatwa was initially prepared by Dr. Yasir Qadhi at the behest of the Fiqh Council of North America. The...
OK, so we messed up a little yesterday… we made the bold move of being all up-front about our intentions for mentioning the Brass Crescent Awards....
We are kind of late on this one. But it is important that all Muslims, esp. in America, are aware about this excellent event ongoing in...
What a surprise… as it was beginning to appear that the Supreme Court will declare Mr. Busharraf’s presidency unconstitutional, Mushy did what can be expected of...
*Alhamdulillah, we would like to introduce SaqibSaab as a new associate writer for MuslimMatters.org. He is from Chicago and also writes on his own blog. When...
First a khutbah from last Friday on The Good Things of This World, delivered at Masjid at-Taqwa in Brooklyn, And this video, from a fund raiser...
A sign of the times…American university in Turkey flouts Turkish ban on headscarves. This article (from the Chronicle of Higher Education) is an apt reminder of...
The family down the street from me has a 20-foot-long effigy of a body hanging from the branch of a tree in their front lawn. It...
The Islamosphere is filled with excellent (and not so excellent) blogs by, and about, Muslims living in the West, trying to practice their Deen. Yet in...
Khalid Hosseini’s new novel, “A Thousand Splendid Suns” is his second, following the much-acclaimed first, “Kite Runner”. Having not had the opportunity yet to read his...
“For the first time, God has competition“, Pat Mooney, the ETC group. This is one of the quotes that the rector of Imperial College London, Sir...