The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
Zainab bint Younus writes a critical review of “The Muslim 100: The Lives, Thoughts and Achievements of the Most Influential...
Keith Olbermann delivers a crushing blow to Horowitz. Apparently the ad used on a poster that is promoting this event of bigotry and religious intolerance displays...
I have often stated that anti-Muslim bigots are ALSO anti-black. The following two posts from the same source further prove my point This post is anti...
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...
