“One Thousand Roads to Mecca: Ten Centuries of Travelers Writing about the Muslim Pilgrimage” (collected and edited by Michael Wolfe) is a treasure trove: the chronicles...
“[W]hen I barely knew how to speak Wolof, my mother tongue, I had been enrolled in a school to learn Arabic and the Qur’an. As it...
Much emphasis has been given on the importance of fasting on the day of ‘Arafah, but don’t forget, this was a day the Prophet Muhammad (upon...
Apart from Ḥajj, the greatest action a Muslim can do in the blessed days of Dhū al-Ḥijjah is to offer the udḥiyah (qurbāni/sacrifice). ‘Āisha reports that...
As Covid-19 started to spread its tentacles across the U.S. in late February, we began to have a small inkling of a possible disturbance in our...
This article was written pre-COVID but is especially relevant this Ramadan I still remember the first time I heard of a women-only Tarawih congregation. I was...
We are definitely living in unusual and unprecedented times. I don’t think any of us ever imagined that we would live through a time when the...
*For mature audiences only This short piece is intended to provide insight on the troubling and detrimental lack of understanding among Muslim men for the necessity...
Hadith: “Hasten to perform good deeds before seven events: Are you waiting for poverty that makes you forgetful? Or wealth that burdens you? Or a debilitating...
The reality across America is that too many people have used the masjid to serve their own egos, fulfill their desires for power, and give themselves...