Sometime in June, I received an invitation to submit an essay to an anthology focused on mothering across cultures. The writing was filled with a lot of contemplations, reflections, and digging into our feelings about raising children in a foreign cultural environment. It took me two months to finish writing the essay, which I then [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 26, 2009
Your, You’re, It’s, Its, Their, There
I have never seen as much mix up of homonymns in my life until these past few years. To be honest, it truly irks me when I see these mix ups in Islamic writings, flyers (especially), and advertisements. Isn’t it enough that Muslims are labeled terrorists? Do we want them to label us illiterates too?
Ok, [...]
January 14, 2009
For those who missed the Ilminar…
Parts of the ilminar; Hikmah; Using Wisdom in Trying Times, can be found on HalalTube, alhamdulillah.
Muhammad AlShareef
Yasir Qadhi
Waleed Basyouni (as the surprise guest speaker)
January 13, 2009
Hikmah: Using Wisdom in Trying Times
As the world watches the grave events unfolding in the Gaza Strip, history is awaiting to document the actions humanity is about to take:
Shameful Inaction or Heroic Justice?
It is human nature to feel all kinds of intense emotions towards the atrocities in Gaza: anger, sorrow, shame, fear, sadness….yet history is filled with stories of these [...]
