The winter holiday season is once again here, and as converts to Islam, whether we come from observant or secular...
There’s a mistake that many mothers of single daughters on the marriage market make: pressuring their daughters to change essential...
Sh. AbdurRahman Chao is providing bloggers an exuberantly exhilarating history of the Abbasids:
Br. Abu Abdillah conveyed the news of the death of the great scholar, an Islamic legend from Pakistan, Sheikh Abdul Ghaffar Hasan. He is the father...
If you haven’t heard it, it isn’t surprising. A quick google search doesn’t help much either. Seems the media doesn’t find much interest in stories that...
I think I’ve just stumbled across the most difficult obstacle that teachers face… dealing with disinterested students. Okay, I’m not exactly a teacher… I’m more of...
This is a real ‘gem’ I heard in a khutbah a long time ago from a Shaykh who is very dear to me (may Allah(swt) preserve...
Sr. Ruth talks about the challenges in starting up a Non-Profit (pls try to make a small (or big) donation) Dates Anyone? Sh. Yusuf reminds everyone...
All of us ‘grown-ups’ probably share some interesting stories from childhood. How many times have we heard someone say ‘my father used to say’, or ‘my...
My ethnic heritage is from quite a few parts of Europe – England, Scotland, a little bit of Ireland, Germany, Poland, and if you consider Jewish...
Joe Sestak (D-PA) is faced an intense attack of sorts by Philly Jews at a synagogue event to back down from his commitment to speak at...
The Institute of Public Affairs (IPA), an Australian conservative/libertarian think tank, has published an interesting article [pdf] on Islam and free markets in their latest issue...