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Muslim Teen Perspectives on Islam and Life, by Somayya Gefori

Does Wearing Traditional Clothing Make You Happy?

British girls in traditional Bangladeshi clothing

April 2008

Does Wearing Traditional Clothing Make You Happy?

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:

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Entertaining the Muslim Youth

January 2008

Entertaining the Muslim Youth

by Somayya Gefori

786, a Muslim Singing Group

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.

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Life with the TV: 21 tips for dealing with the thing

April 2007

Life with the TV: 21 tips for dealing with the thing

by Abdul Malik Mujahid

Reprinted from Soundvision.com

Exact source URL: http://www.soundvision.com/Info/parenting/tvtips.asp

Teenage Muslim life and strategies

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.

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Iftar With the Devil

January 2004

Iftar With the Devil

by Shezena T. Mohammed

Argument during Iftar at the Carrollton masjid

This last Ramadan, as with every Ramadan, my family and I spent a lot of time at the masjid. I don’t know how it is with any other masjids but with mine, and the ones that I have gone to in the past, usually every night of Ramadan someone will host a dinner at the masjid and the community will all get together and eat. This is a nice thing to look forward to every Ramadan. It builds unity and people get to know each other and form bonds and relationships. I usually like going and seeing the people working together and treating each other like how our Prophet (saaw) taught us. It makes me smile seeing it and I feel good that I am in a such a good Muslim community. But not this Ramadan.

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Teenagers and Marriage: Not a Lethal Combination

November 2002

Teenagers and Marriage: Not a Lethal Combination

by Shezena T. Mohammed

As I start to get older and begin to experience adulthood, I don’t think any aspect of growing up has hit me so hard as the concept of marriage. Not only marriage, but marriage and me. The first time someone I considered to be one of my peers told me that she was getting married, I couldn’t believe it. No one our age ever got married.

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How I Began Wearing Hijaab

September 2002

How I Began Wearing Hijaab

by Shezena T. Mohammed

Everyone wants to go to heaven. It’s just something that every God-fearing person wants. Some people realize what they need to do to get there, and do it, but most of us, in my opinion, don’t. Maybe they think they’ll do it later in life or how they are leading their life isn’t really that bad, even though God has explicitly told them to lead it a different way. I was in seventh grade when my mother decided that she was going start wearing a hijaab.

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Confused Muslim Teenagers In America

July 2002

Confused Muslim Teenagers In America

by Jalal Khalid Siddiqui

Muslim teenagers in America are confused. They live in two worlds: one of Islam and one of their un-Islamic, or at least non-Muslim surroundings. In these two worlds, clashes are inevitable. It can be difficult to maintain an Islamic identity as a teenager in America because of many surrounding factors that prevent us from practicing our Deen.

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