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The Fires of Marriage: How to Stop Fighting

Husbands and wives in conflict often sound like whiny children. He’ll whine that she doesn’t ever want to have sex, and she’ll whine in turn that he’s lazy around the house and still on his mother’s apron strings. Perhaps they’ll come to…

Passion and Power: The Politics of ‘The Ideal Muslimah’

IT IS HUMAN nature to be hyper aware and critical of those in the public eye, and Muslims are no different. Imams, shuyûkh, and other popular figures in the Muslim public sphere are all subject to scrutiny and fascination. Muslim women who…

The Ethical Monotheism of Islam vs Unethical Monotheism

ISLAM, LIKE CHRISTIANITY and Judaism, is commonly described in Comparative Religion textbooks as an ethical monotheism. That is, it asserts that there is only one God, and that recognition and worship of that one God carries grave ethical implications and imposes profound…

Enemies at Heart: Khushûʿ and Laghw

ÎMÂN IS THE product of our ʿibâda, but as the Prophet ﷺ warned, ʿibâda can be barren. Abû Hurairah related that the Prophet ﷺ said: Many people who fast get nothing from their fast except hunger and thirst, and many people who…

A Muslim’s Meditation on Modern-Day Marketing | Part 3

Islam’s Market Mandate—Trade Without Exploitation ISLAM PERMITS, EVEN encourages, trade for profit, but with two strict injunctions: Full disclosure in sales and safeguarding modesty. The purpose of both these provisos is to check exploitation, the formula for which is this: D+SI=E. That is,…

B-O-R-E-D-O-M! Its Antidote

NOW THAT WE have established that I can spell, let’s mosey right along to the topic at hand, i.e., boredom. Boredom is a common feeling for many. Some people don’t acknowledge it, but when you ask them to talk about their lives…

A Muslim’s Meditation On Modern-Day Marketing | Part 2

MANY ARE THE Muslims of our time that make selling and its manifestations today the moral equal of the principles of sales transactions (muʿamalât) in Islam. They see the discrepancy between commerce in capitalism and Islam as a problem of vocabulary not…

7 Tips: What to Do If You’re a Conscientious Muslim, Want to Get Married but are Still Single

IT IS A hard position to be in. You want to connect with someone at the deepest level of intimacy spiritually, physically, intellectually and emotionally. And yet, because of your decision to try your best to stick to the guidelines God has…

A Muslim’s Meditation on Modern-Day Marketing | Part 1

“THE ACTIVITY, SET of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.” That’s the American Marketing Association’s definition of marketing, the most important branch of high-level business studies and research…

Charity Needn’t Cost a Cent

WHETHER IT IS millions for natural disasters victims or hundreds of thousands for the city’s homeless, dollars from near and far pour in to help others in need. Allah’s words in the Quran and the Prophet’s examples clearly explain the obligations that…