Four walls. Dark and dingy. A man sat down and exhaled, bowed his head down and said a prayer to His Lord. How did he get here? In another time, another place, a woman...
by Mahasin Shamsid-Deen During the month of Ramadan we often receive a lot of information instructing us on its significance, what to do and what nullifies a fast...
by Lotifa Begum As Muslimahs, we are constantly juggling; we have the role of mother – looking after kids who may not have let you sleep an hour or two, being a...
By Mufti Taqi Usmani Sadaqat-Al-Fitr is an obligation for every Muslim, male or female, who owns 613.35 grams of silver or its equivalent, either in the form of money...
by Na’ima B. Robert When your newsfeed and inbox first started to fill up with notifications about preparing for Ramadan, you had realised that, yes, it’s been a year. A...
Alhamdulillah (praise be to God) my husband and I were blessed with the opportunity to perform Hajj in 2014. Deciding to go to Hajj was one of the most difficult...
Once a student sat with a teacher to read a text. As he opened the book, the teacher turned to him and said, “Have you ever asked yourself why the scholars use the...
One of the things I like to do in my spare time is read psychology books. When I was about to complete my undergraduate degree—a double major in history and political...
In our last article we reminded ourselves of how little in reality we know—and how an obsessiveness of thinking that we’re “right” is not a characteristic of...
From Darkness to Light Assalamualaykum My name is Aisha. I am 42 years old, of Indian origin and settled in Sydney for over a year now. I accepted Islam less than 5...