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Question: Assalam aleykum, I have always found Fajr prayer challenging throughout my life, due to my husband working night shifts. A year ago, I had a major operation and although…

When I was growing up, the world was a perfect place. The only problem was, that it wasn’t. I used to believe that everything could always be ‘fair’. To me…

Excerpted from Al Maghrib Institute’s “Fiqh of Love” seminar with Shaykh Waleed Basyouni. Great relationships don’t just happen; they are created. You have to work at it. If your job…

“And among His signs is that He created for you mates from among yourselves that you may dwell in tranquility with them, and He has put love and mercy between…

Baby Steps to Becoming a Master Parent A father cannot give a better gift to his son than a good education. (Tirmidhi) After being married for 10 years and then a…

Muslims in America represent diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds and this has lead to an increase in intercultural and interfaith marriages. Despite the taboo amongst parents in the Muslim community…

10 Considerations when Searching for the One  “I’m afraid of getting married,” she told me. She, like the countless other women who had approached me, confessed what she thought was…

Veiled from sight, a young woman walked down the streets of Cairo, reciting Qur’an to herself and thinking about her goals. She loved the Qur’an and was passionate about studying…

Before I got married, I was given unsolicited advice on how to change in order to make myself “more appealing” to men. Sisters would voluntarily tell me I should change…

Question: What do Quran and Hadith say about a woman who is forced to live in a marriage she wants to break? Whether she is emotionally blackmailed by her family…