Keys to Happiness: Contentment
Happiness is perhaps the most encompassing and common aim in our lives. We judge everything in our life in terms of how it relates to our...
Read MoreNew year’s resolution anybody?
So 2012 is nearly upon us and if the world doesn’t end as the Mayans predicted, it is worthwhile thinking about a goal that we would...
Read More10 Ways to Avoid Marrying the Wrong Person
There is a right way and a wrong way to get to know someone for marriage. The wrong way is to get caught up in the excitement and nuance...
Read MoreThe Challenge Against Indifference
Among the greatest blessings bestowed to humanity are the related gifts of reason and freewill. Through these faculties, human beings are...
Read MoreA Muslim’s Response to Amy Chua’s Parenting Advice
Written by Shaista Yusufali When Amy Chua’s now infamous article entitled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior” appeared in...
Read MoreHumility When Speaking
One of the most important discussions in the science of Akhlaq relates to the method of speaking with people and the way that one interacts...
Read MoreHijabi? Putting Pictures on Facebook?
Ever seen a Hijabi posting her most beautiful pictures on Facebook? I have. And it’s completely beyond my understanding. Before...
Read MoreAn Aged Student
Sikaki was a skilled artist and artisan. With great expertise and interest, he made such a nice and beautiful inkpot that it could be...
Read MoreThe Beggar and the Laborer
I came across a poem the other and it really struck me. I pondered over it for some while and marveled at how precisely it depicted a small...
Read MoreGender Apartheid or Respectable Interaction?
Muslim “progressives” suggest that the separation between men and women in mosques was established much later in Muslim...
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