Sarah Elshamy, Author at Al Jumuah Magazine

Lessons We Can Learn from Birds

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…

Rights of Children Over Parents in Islam

The Rights of Children Over Parents | Part 2

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?

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The Rights of Children Over Parents | Part 1

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…

The Quran: My Best Friend

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…