Osama bin Laden is dead. And once again, in this Manichean good-versus-evil, us-versus-them, black-versus-white, world that we are told we live in, we are expected to...
Bismillah I went straight to my room after returning from my uncle’s janazah (funeral prayer). He died from Leukemia and had just returned from umrah a...
Hajj Reflections: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 On the 12th of Dhul Hijjah, I awoke in Mina...
Everything blurs to black around me.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajioon. From the BBC (includes video of the funeral procession): “Mr Yar’Adua died late on Wednesday in the capital Abuja. Thousands...
From the International Union of Muslim Women: Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’oon. Our beloved sister, Aminah Assilmi passed away this morning in an automobile accident....
The following is a guest-post by Adnan. More of his reflections on life, love and spirituality on his blog He decides to pack up and fly...
UPDATES H/T Hussein: X17 Online is reporting that Michael Jackson Reportedly Will Be Buried in Muslim Traditions. MM cannot vouch for X17’s credibility. Best to wait...
The subject of death, and especially autopsy, is a little more macabre than I’m used to dealing with. Even so, I could not resist sharing some...
The following article was written by Abu Shoaib Ashmead Choat, a very dear family friend of ours. He visited Houston a few years ago and gave...