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by Wael Abdelgawad
Here’s an article from the BBC that says that Bangladeshi girls in the UK who wear traditional clothing are happier than those who wear Western clothing. Personally I think they’ve kind of missed the point. But read it yourself and see what you think:
March 2008by Somayya Gefori
I am a mixed race Muslim, which sounds simple in itself, but I can often find myself thinking, ‘Where do I really belong?’ I am Libyan on my father’s side, and English on my mother’s side. Oh, how much easier it must be to just be one race! You know right away where you belong, and there’s nobody around you saying, ‘But Libya is better!’ and vice-versa.
by Somayya Gefori
When I was a young child, my family listened to the likes of Yusuf Islam in the car. Nowadays there are many nasheed artists, and over the last decade the industry has practically exploded with new talent: Native Deen, 786, Sami Yusuf, Zain Bhikha and Mesut Kurtis, to name but a few. Nor does this trend in entertainment come without controversy.
November 2007by Somayya Gefori
Hijab is not something we wear as a fashion statement, it is not merely a piece of clothing. Hijab is part of the Islamic way of life, hijab is an attitude, a way of thinking and behaving.
There is such a saying as a woman being clothed, yet naked. This means that she is wearing clothing, but it is so tight and transparent, that it could hardly be called clothing. Even if the clothing is long, if it is tight and figure-hugging, so that it reveals a woman’s shape, it is not hijab.
Hijab is not only wearing a scarf on your head, it also means to cover your awra.
by Somayya Gefori
I have just recently returned home from the annual JIMAS (Jam’iat Ihyaa Minhaaj al-Sunnah) conference, which is held every year on the August British Bank Holiday weekend. It lasts from a Friday through to the Bank Holiday Monday morning. This year’s topic was “Healing the Fragile Earth. Fulfilling our Heavenly Trust”. Many lectures were given on the topics of being environmentally aware and looking after the environment, which is something we should do as Muslims.
A Popular Event
Speakers are invited to the conference, which is held at Leicester University’s Residential site in Oadby, Leicester.
by Somayya Gefori
I am now a regular blood donor, after recently donating blood for the second time.
In the
by Somayya Gefori
Illusionary Freedom
The first thing that a lot of Muslims who don’t live in a Western country think is that it must be a very bad place, full of temptations to commit all kinds of sins. That may be true, but if you stay close to your deen, ultimately you will begin to see that Western people aren’t so free.
April 2007
by Abdul Malik Mujahid
Reprinted from Soundvision.com
Exact source URL: http://www.soundvision.com/Info/parenting/tvtips.asp
Not everything that comes through TV is bad. However, because the average child between two and 11 years old watches over 27 hours of poorly supervised television per week; because the only thing that kids do more than watch television is sleep, and because most parents are unaware of the indecent liberties that television takes with our children, you must control this 19 inch Shaytan, as a friend of mine calls it.
by Shezena T. Mohammed
Everyday while I drive to school and work on the infamous A1A where all of Florida’s rich and famous live along the beach, I pass by a graveyard and look to it.
I’m dumbfounded by death. It’s like I don’t even know what it is.
by Shezena T. Mohammed
I’m taking a class at the university unlike any other I’ve taken. It’s a feminist class. Normally I can’t stand feminists, but I needed some upper level credits and this was upper level. In this class we are expected to read a book called “Woman as Healer.” It talks about the history of women in the medical field and healing arts from the beginning of humankind up until now.
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