You’re expecting another cliché article, aren’t you? Like the ones with the rhyming titles we read every year about a week or two after Eid: “7 Ways To Maintain Your Eman” “Don’t Let Ramadan Fly And Let Your Faith Die” “Reason Number Five To Keep Ramadan’s Spirit Alive” Let me tell you a little…
First, let me tell you how it feels to LIVE your dream. To follow your passion and live a purposeful life you’ve always dreamed of. It’s overwhelming. It’s exhilarating. It’s scary. Yes, you’ll be scared. You’ll be afraid of having a full plate all the time. You’ll even be afraid to fail. But you’ll experience a…
‘When are you getting married?’ ‘When are you getting done with college?’ ‘When are you going to give us the good news?’ ‘Where is your delivery going to be?’ ‘When are you going to get a job and make yourself financially stable?’ ‘Where are you planning to settle?’ etc etc. The list goes on. Sigh….
In The Name of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Most Merciful. Quiet some days ago, I had come across this particular statement made in a short marital advice video. It got me wondering, and then I had followed up by posing a question to our readers, wanting them to share their thoughts, on The Nikah…
A glass of wine? A few beers? A shot of tequila? Scotch? On the rocks? With a twist? Man the choices are endless, and they sound so appealing, don’t they? (Oh don’t give me that look! Of course they do!) If alcohol didn’t make people feel SO GOOD, why on earth would they start drinking?…
Hafsah bint ‘Umar- the young lioness of a mighty father ‘Umar bin al-Khattab, the fourth wife of the Prophet Muhammad صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم, and sister to Abdullah bin ‘Umar whose excellence was declared by the Prophet himself. Having been surrounded by such great men, one can expect nothing but the best from her,…
It was one of those days where she spent her day with her family and a couple of close friends. Her fiancé” was there too. At the spare of a moment, as they were all sitting on the porch of their garden. He knelt down on one knee and brought out the Tiffany blue gift…
Thrown into the depths of depression after losing my daughter through a stillbirth, life was a dark cloud filled with sadness, pain, endless crying and a host of other emotions that made the days seem almost unbearable most times. Time passed slowly, as if hours felt like days, the days felt like months and nothing…
Zaynab bint Jahsh- a name synonymous with several revolutionary changes brought into Islam. Zaynab bint Jahsh- because of who the verses of Hijab were revealed, and several societal norms were blown to smithereens. It was she who was the mother-figure for all the poor and needy of the city of Madinah, and was known…
Remember the time when the word ‘gay’ meant ‘happy’? Yeah, me neither. I grew up in a generation who couldn’t even say the word out loud. We whispered it and giggled instead, even though calling a man ‘gay’ two decades ago was just a metaphor implying he was ‘girly’. Period. At that time, men were…