Kenosha, Wisconsin, my beloved former city. I lived in Kenosha for almost two years in the early 90s. I was a manager of a convenience store/gas station on 75th Street,
Al-Fatiha is the perfect template for du’a. It can be viewed as a prayer within a prayer since it is obligatory to be recited as a supplication in each unit
A new year has fallen upon us. Not the kind of year that we are used to in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, but a new year according to the
I came across this post and it was the most fear I have ever endured I could feel the goosebumps on my skin My breath trembling by the overlying shock
A different feeling indeed, as we pass yet another Eid since the Corona pandemic stopped the world in its tracks. Many of our community members, including myself, were ready to
How did Makkah emerge on the socio-religious map of the world? Are the rituals practiced during Al-Hajj the response to the prayer of Ibrahim and Ismail? What is the journey
Take me back to when I was a child Where the only thing I feared was hurting myself on the playground Can you see it? Do you taste it? Can
In the day of Hudaibiah, when the prophet (SAAW) came to perform Umrah in Makkah, many messengers of Quraish were sent to negotiate a deal with the prophet (SAAW), but
In many disputes between spouses, each uses any means available to support his or her point of view against the other. One of such ways often used by husbands is
What are the new paradigms that Quran used to nudge the people to adopt giving as an important aspect of their civic responsibility? In the previous article I wrote about