December 2013

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2014 New Year’s eve brings with it myriads of women who promise themselves 1500 calorie lives, and dozens of credit cards cut up and tossed into baskets. Let us be different. On this day, when the rest of the world is pulling up their dunyā socks, what resolutions might you make? Let […]

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2013 The Prophet ﷺ said, “A single faqīh (learned one in religion) is more brutal to Shaytān than one thousand worshippers.” And Allah (swt) says, {…God will raise those of you who believe and those of you have gained knowledge by degrees…} (al Mujādila: 11) The rank of the learned is great.

‘My sisters, my daughters, my friends – find your voice,’ Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said after collecting her Nobel Prize in 2011. Can you hear her? A woman’s voice tells us about the immigration of the Muslims to Abyssinia. Another woman’s voice tells us details of our beloved Prophet’s ﷺ life. A woman’s voice

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2013 • 12:00 AM An ear of corn holds so many kernels that each bite pulls out numerous milky pouches from the hard cob into your mouth. A frozen river reflects the scenery around it in waves of color and tufts of snow that crinkle the smile lines of your eyes. Expensive

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2013 There is a whisper first. Then the whisper grows into a quiet hum, the hum into an audible sound. A voice forms words, and voices join together. Together they shout! They acclaim! They call. Let the victory of Islam begin with your whisper. Islam began with the verse, {Read, in the

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013 • 12:00 AM Anytime you wonder how big your round dining room table is, all you have to do is take the radius, square it and multiply it by pi. If you want to know the size of your pizza, same formula: πr2. Not only circles, but other complicated math problems