By Maryam Sultan Yellow is my favorite color. It’s the color of the purse my sister gifted me on the day that I completed my...
Cross-post from http://saudilife.net/life-and-society/92-life-and-society/1653-are-you-a-sign-of-the-last-day It was while watching the Oprah Winfrey Show many years ago when I realized that times have really changed… This particular show interviewed a...
Half of this story is truth and half of this has not yet happened. Let me tell you the true part first. When the doorbell rang...
By: Sabeen Mansoori I died many times today. I also watched many loved ones-husbands, mothers, fathers, grandparents and aunts depart this world. They were all in...
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....