Anse’s Blogs

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21st, 2014 One third of the month of Rabīʿ al-Awwal has passed. Do you remember in the beginning of the month? The excitement of greeting his month may have waned in the past few weeks of cold days and sleepy nights, but it is not over! Our Prophet ﷺ was a unique individual. […]

Among millions of Muslims all over the world – among all the inhabitants of the world – the questions pose themselves… Where do we stand? What is our role? What is our affiliation? These are grave questions, and upon their answers lie our fate in this world and the next. Join us on a tour

TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 2014 There are over seven billion people in the world and at any given time someone is happy and joyful, another is suffering and in pain. Allah (swt) created us and created this dunyā. He placed within it His laws. Part and parcel of His laws is that Janna is a place

Anas (r) reports that the Prophet ﷺ would stand on Friday with his back leaning on a trunk that was set in the mosque and give a khutba to people. A Roman came to him and said, “Shall I not make for you that which you will sit upon and it will be as though

The Earth held no prophet. Its people were lost in an utter darkness – no prophet, no current message, no light for souls seeking solace. The last prophet had lived and left the Earth hundreds of years ago. There was an utter deprivation of righteousness. There was a hunger and a yearning for the return

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