"Zamzam" is the name of a well inside Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, which was miraculously brought forth in the time of Ibrahim (alayhisalaam), due to his wife Hajar and infant son Isma’il (alayhisalaam). The waters of the well spring forth to this day; a blessing and a benefit for the Muslimeen. "May Allah bestow Mercy on Ishmael’s mother! Had she let the Zamzam (flow...
AstroTurf: simulated or artificially created public support for something, generated by an orchestrated marketing or public relations campaign. Recently an emotionally charged post was made on another Muslim sub, which dealt with a husband sabotaging his wife’s birth control in order to get her pregnant while knowing she wanted to wait to have children. It garnered a lot of buzz (surprise...
Some time ago, we had a post asking what was stopping Muslim women from getting married. In the course of that thread, I was kindly asked to expound on some of what I stated regarding the differences in how marriage is perceived when one is younger vs. older and more mature. This post is the response to that request, inshallah. I’d like to apologize upfront if the post rambles a bit too...
The other day, I had an aggressive work timeline, something with a few hours’ turnaround. The way I work, especially if I’m doing design work or coding, it’s easy to just get "into the zone." I’ll sit down and blaze through a week’s worth of work pretty easily. In the past, it was nothing for me to be at my desk for 10-12 hours straight, no breaks...
I came across this video of Shaykh ‘Abdurrazzaq al Badr and it made me think again about something that crosses my mind from time to time which is: how amazing this Qur’an that we’ve been given is. Subhanallah. So many da’ees (callers to Islam) these days we see, and they’re twisting themselves into pretzels trying to reason, refute, or otherwise argue with the...
The availability of halal food (and meat in particular) is widespread in Muslim countries. You can walk into any shop or restaurant and be confident you’re feeding yourself and your family permissible food. In the States where I live, you have to travel to special markets to acquire it, and it’s invariably more expensive than the regular fare. I live in one of the largest cities in...
Narrated by Abu Hurayrah (radhiAllah anh) that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: You will not enter Paradise until you believe, and you will not believe until you love one another. Shall I not tell you about something which, if you do it, you will love one another? Spread salaam amongst yourselves. —Sahih Muslim 54, Ahmad 2/391, at-Tirmidhi 2513 There is much to be said about the love and...
There are several devious and underhanded ways in which Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner attempts to paint a narrative of Muslims/certain kinds of Muslims. Looking broadly, we see a few distinct categories, which we will explore below. Character Tropes The Liberal Muslim The narrator’s father is given this trope, which paints him as a "good" Muslim because he drinks, throws...
A Critique of the Hollywood Movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. This post is not to encourage watching movies or consuming haram media in any way, shape, or form. This is simply to report on the insidious nature of sociocultural engineering happening in the West against Islam, subliminally, through the use of popular media. Though not an Islamic perspective, this article covers some of the more glaring...
This post was written in response to a thread on Reddit which railed against the idols that were destroyed in Afghanistan. Iconoclasm For Me, But Not For Thee Most of the comments on the post are bemoaning the loss of "great heritage" and how savage, unlearned and terrible it is that the terrorists destroyed the idols in their own lands. Me, reading this—I’m bewildered. Any ruling...