Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. Why is it that I keep praying to Allah and my prayers (dua) are never answered? Even my non-Muslim friends’ lives are better than mine. Please advise. Answer: Wa alaykum assalam wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. Dear questioner, We must...
Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I’ve been struggling with the deen since Allah drew me back into the religion when a calamity had befallen me because there was no other way out. Since then I’ve been practicing. I think to myself, “Why me?” because I disobey Allah a...
Question: Assalam alaykum wa rahmat Allah wa barakatuh. I am a young Muslim guy. I do pray five times a day. But I have committed zina several times. I did make tawba and went back to it. And then I did make tawba again. I am trying to full fill the 3 conditions of tawba. But since my...
I was attending the Friday prayer at a certain mosque once. In the back corner, I noticed two teenage girls sitting side by side, whispering and giggling throughout most of the khutbah(sermon). It was slightly distracting, but nobody made a fuss about it—except one older woman who was...
I remember the last time it happened to me. I was driving my daughter to preschool, something I do several times a week. Traffic was heavy and I was preoccupied. Deep in thought, I drove amidst the hundreds of cars on the highway and suddenly, or maybe it was after several minutes, I...
