As the school year begins in Canada (and across many parts of the world), I and other Muslim parents find ourselves once again trying to remember...
What does real success mean to you? Are wealth and material prosperity more important than steadfast imaan? Abu Hurayrah reported that the Prophet said: “Look at...
“Did the Prophet ﷺ wear glasses?” I didn’t realize that a question so simple and inane could fill me with so much happiness. To be clear,...
The Seeds There are seldom few childhood favorites that I obsessively consumed in my formative years –be they books, films, TV shows- that haven’t molded my...
Dear Son, You are ten and we haven’t had the talk yet. I don’t mean the talk about puberty or sex ed, that we have been...
The biggest challenge of parenting is to accept that we are facing a world very different from the one in which we grew up. This is...
Question: Dear Counselor, How do we discipline our 12 year old son who has developed in over a year an extreme anger – tantrum issues with...
First printed in Motherhood Magazine She is curled up next to me reading a ‘Wrinkle in Time’, when she suddenly turns around and says “Mama, you know...
Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V | | Part V(b) | Part VI | Part VII | Part VIII | Part IX Continuing from last week’s article, insha’Allah we will discuss the next two commonly asked questions: 4....