Sarah is an Egyptian-American who was born and raised in the United States. Soon after graduating from high school in 2008, she traveled to Cairo, Egypt, to study Quranic Arabic (fusha), and Islamic studies in an intensive program. She now holds a bachelors degree from Al-Azhar University in the field of Usool adDeen, and plans on continuing her studies in the near future.
When does Tarbiyah begin? What is the role of the mother vs the father? Do fathers even have a role, or should they just relax and leave everything to the mother?
Yet too few of us, I think, ponder the rights of children in Islam—more specifically, the rights children hold over parents. The fruit of our marriages, the joy of our eyes, so integral a part of the pleasure of our lives, clearly…
So why was the Quran revealed? The Quran was revealed as a guide for humankind; it was revealed as a manual for life, and we should use it as so. The Holy Quran should not just merely be a book that sits…
EVERY HUMAN BEING, Muslim or not, can attest to the extreme beauty and diversity in Allah’s creation. He created man with multiple skin colors, various ways of speaking and living in many nations. But all have the same purpose and that is…