On the border of San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, several families live their lives torn apart—they were born on the wrong side of a wall....
“To lose one parent is misfortune. To lose both looks like carelessness.” – Oscar Wilde If I am to take Mr Wilde’s words to heart, I’ve...
The vast majority of Muslim men will be horrified by these stories and recognize how inappropriate and un-Islamic it is to contact any woman in a...
The way most Muslims (as well as conservative Christians and Jews) live, a man asks for a woman’s hand in marriage from the father. The father...
From a cognitive-development standpoint, this is called a concrete operational period, according to Jean Piaget. (N.B: Some adults never progress beyond this phase, while 15% of...
In recent years, Shaykh Hamza Yusuf, a notable Islamic scholar from North America, has gained global prominence by supporting efforts by the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...
This is called a pre-operational period by Jean Piaget who was focused on cognitive development. Children this age have difficulty reconciling between different dimensions or seemingly...
I remember driving to college orientation over the summer with my father, may Allah have mercy on him. I was going to be going to school...
The past couple days I haven’t been able to write, thinking and reflecting over the passing of a great man, a mentor, someone I consider among...
A short survey on what leading scholars and the four schools of law (madhhabs) have to say on the issue