Louis and Kadija sat in the crowded waiting room at Highland Hospital. The room smelled faintly of bleach...
This is an extremely poignant khutbah by Sh. Mustafa Umar. This provides a much needed step in moving past the dialogue of things like ‘is it...
What time was it? Louis had been dreaming that he was riding in a personnel carrier in the southern suburbs of Baghdad...
That next Friday afternoon, Kadija called. Louis could not have been more surprised if she had leaped onto the roof of his cab and done a...
Red-What? Whether you’ve heard of Reddit or not, chances are your kids are spending time on it. In some cases—upwards of a couple of hours a...
October 2008 San Francisco, California Louis wondered if the Muslim woman with the sky-blue scarf would call for a ride that day, and if he’d manage...
By Adnan Majid Bismillah’l-Raḥmān’l-Raḥīm As the Qurʾān’s first verse, the invocation above (known as the basmallah) is our gateway to divine revelation and our...
We watched an episode of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations on ‘Īd day, it was playing in the background at my in-laws’ place, after the presents had been opened...
There is no place on Earth as venerated, as central or as holy to as many people as Makkah. By any objective standard, this valley in...
Every single conference. Every single lecture. Every single guest speaker. Every single gathering of friends… …Every single time, a halal meat discussion. Is it halal? Is...