Allahumma salli ‘ala sayyidina Muhammad… It is the asking for prayers and blessings to be upon our beloved Messenger. The one, who at one point stood calling out to his (s) family, and only one answered. The one who stood calling from the mountain-top, and called out to his people – those who, only days […]
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The Cherokee say, “When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” Busy! It is the end of the school year and report cards are due; the end of a season and my classes at the institute are drawing to
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Are you tired? Do your bones, heart and sinew ache with hurt for humanity? Are you making furtive glances over at the Muslim corner, wondering how to approach, how to help? Are you a Muslim peeking out of your silo wondering where to start? Have we all finally united in our human hesitation to reach
Hatred, evil, anger and fear; war, bombing, terrorism, and death; sometimes it feels overwhelming. But Thanksgiving brings our thoughts to thankfulness and gratitude, reminding us that God is greater than all of this evil. Join us at Rabata as we lift our voices in a Latifiyya (say Ya Latif – call upon the gentle, subtle,
Listen Up America! In a little house in Amsterdam seven people huddled. They were afraid for their lives and indeed only one will survive. Anne Frank’s Jewish family was hiding from the Christian Nazis who hated them. They tried to get away. They applied for emigration status to both England and the United States of
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To God we belong and it is to Him that we return… The blessed upbringer and expert legal scholar, al-Hajja Duriyya al-‘Ayta has transferred on to the mercy of her Lord today. “If a scholar dies a gash opens up in Islam, and nothing will close it until the day of judgement.” We cannot console
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October 9th, 2015 It is not often that we are blessed with beautiful examples of what it means to be good. Coach Salah Abdul-Razacq was one of those examples. I visited Ustadha Zaynab Ansari and Abu Salah, as his wife lovingly and respectfully referred to him, in their home last year. I was struck by
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Today I sit at the mosque here in Minnesota and on my right are two American convert friends, on my left an elderly Somali woman, in front of me a Pakistani woman; down a little further are some Asian women, perhaps Malaysian or Indonesian; and the room is salt and peppered with Egyptians and women
Alhamdulillah! We Sent 10,414,223 Salawat! Rabi al-Awwal came and went, and we reached our ten million goal of salawat. There were days I wondered and worried, and days I fussed and fretted. Then only a few hoursbefore the end of the month, the last 200,000 came in and we had reached our goal. I was
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