Downton Abbey, the incredibly popular BBC period drama, has fans marveling at how different life used to be a hundred...
This is a bit of a change of pace from the Ramadan posts, but it’s a timely article that was recently in the New York Times...
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Ramadan is a time to make much du’a. In Surah al-Baqarah, verses 184-188 discuss fasting and Ramadan in considerable detail. In the...
Along the lines of Muslims making a positive impression, please check out this post at Tariq Nelson’s blog regarding humanitarian efforts by our brothers and sisters...
Probably the most intense component of salat is sajdah. No other position expresses worship and obedience as powerfully as bowing all the way down with your...
A very inspiring story, from Arab News (follow link for photo). What really inspired me – more than the story of this orphan teenage convert who...
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self,” wrote Aldous Huxley, the English novelist best known...
This is a lecture that was delivered in Toronto this July regarding lessons that can be learned from the Treaty of Hudaybiyah in our times. [google...
I’ve been thinking more and more about the difference between extremely locally-based, grass-roots Islamic activism vs. a larger, almost institution-like system (such as al-Maghrib)… these thoughts...
*E-mail your concerns and complaints to Columbia at this email: Curesponse@columbia.edu* (Hat-tip Sr. Zahra) Let me start off by saying that I am no fan of...
In light of what’s been going on these last couple days (the whole pact issue), I’ve decided that it’s time for some words of rememberance and...
