The Fast of the Prophet

THE NINTH MONTH on the Islamic calendar—twenty-nine or thirty days of community fasting (Ṣawm), from crescent to crescent, Ramadan—is, among other things, a celebration of Al-Ra ḥmân’s renewal of guidance to mankind. Our Ramadan and Its Associations with Revelation One of the great…

ARE YOU A COMPLETE MUSLIM? | Part 18

TAKING ONE’S INTENDED PLACE IN OUR BROTHERHOOD (continued) Our good deeds benefit our ‘brothers’ (male and female) as well as ourselves. doing good can be contagious!  No one should be shy about encouraging one another, competing in good, about doing any and…

ARE YOU A COMPLETE MUSLIM? | Part 17

TAKING ONE’S INTENDED PLACE IN OUR BROTHERHOOD Being a complete Muslim is not a spectator sport in which your required duties are performed by your Imam or by your community’s officially designated anti-Islamophobia activists or da’wah specialists. To the contrary, developing a…
How To Fear

How To Fear | Part I

FEAR IS A common emotion, and “scared” is a word we often hear. It is an older sense of the English word “fear” that is key to our success in responding to Allah’s Guidance, and thus in attaining His blessings. Allah repeatedly…