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Manners in Activism

Posted on Categories - Reflections

In this day and age, Muslims in the West are gearing up to defend themselves in the face of bigotry, hatred, and Islamophobia. Alhamdulilah that some action is being taken; however, we need to caution ourselves lest we fall into the trap that our Non-Muslim social justice activists have fallen into. ...

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Our Greatest Weapon

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Du’aa, we’re told, is the weapon of a believer. And from a young age we’re taught to make du’aa for the things we want in life, whether that’s good grades, Jannah, or those pair of shoes mum said she wasn’t going to buy us. We grew up believing that if we asked God for it long and hard enough, that eventually it’ll be given to us on a silver platter....

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YOLO

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You jump off a cliff in the gravity-defying act of bungee jumping, with the New Zealand air brushing your cheeks, while screaming at the top of your lungs, “YOLO!”...

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Faith & Friendship

Posted on Categories - Relationships

When I was young, I participated in a weekend Islamic retreat which a girl that I have met in university casually told me about when we accidentally met each other again on the city bus. After that weekend retreat, I decided to wear hijab....

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The Spices of Life

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“Every soul shall taste death”, is one of the many things Allah has promised the humans living on this earth, regardless of race or religion. Nobody can escape the grips of death when their time comes, no matter how old or young, how rich or poor....

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Ahad, Ahad.

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Has the story of Bilal ibn Rabah {رَضِيَ اَللهُ ءَنْه} reached you? If the streets of Makkah could speak, what would they say? They would tell us how Bilal {رَضِيَ اَللهُ ءَنْه} body was dragged on it. ...

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Going Against The Current

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What we had to do was, at one time, bracing a really strong current at a river and going against it. At the end of the river, we had to climb to a high stone and then jump to the waterfall and let ourselves be taken by the current again back to the starting point. ...

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