“How did you convert to Islam” is a question that is commonly asked to those who convert to Islam. While the short answer to this question...
If I threw a brick through your window, could I tell you it was an Amanah and demand that you keep it? Could I tape a...
“I don’t know why you’d want to live with all that anger and bitterness!” a woman said in response to a survivor who’d expressed that she...
“Don’t allow yourself to be drawn into someone else’s version of ‘the cause.’ No one can do it all, not even those saying you should...
When I first began writing what would eventually become the novel His Other Wife, it wasn’t about marriage or polygamy, or even romantic relationships. It was...
Islam teaches us to be humble, tolerant and position ourselves to be the servants of humanity. There is serenity and bliss in this simplicity. Simplicity in...
By Maryam Sultan The day after my toughest 24-hour call of residency at the hospital so far, I got called a “f—ing terrorist” by a stranger...
As-salaamu alaykum, I was once invited to a faraway place to an Islamic event as a keynote speaker. At the end of the event someone came...
Once I was picking up a scholar from a trip, he was dragging his carry on behind him and as I reached to take it from...
By Yawar Baig A difference of opinion indicates interest and commitment. Not stupidity and ignorance. Only the interested and committed, disagree. We Muslims are perhaps a...
