Assalamualaykum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh My name is Jacob and I am an American, having grown up in the southern plains state of Oklahoma. I had a very long road to Islam. I always believed in God from the time I was a child. My father had died when I was a toddler and my mother had no...
By Muslema Purmul and Maryam Amirebrahimi I was standing next to the grave, supplicating quietly to Allah for the man we just buried. He was a family relative, loved by many alhamdulilLah (praise be to God). As I stood there, a few other women came and also started to supplicate. They...
By Salman Khan As a child, whenever you asked a Muslim what they wanted to do when they grew up, building a masjid (mosque) was always one of the responses. Interestingly, this trend continues even at the college level. The answer “I want to build a masjid” seems ubiquitous and a goal of...
By JINAN BASTAKI We have different categories of friends. Some friends are fun to hang out with, but that is pretty much it; you cannot exactly rely on them. Other friends are there for you but don’t always give you the best advice. But there are some friends – or that one friend – that...
By Izza Atiqa One of the things I love most about my job is the people that I get to meet. I just started work a few months ago, and in the course of my day-to-day routine, I have met some people to whom my heart gravitates, just for the beauty of the person that they are. During my first...
