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
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.
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
Every morning when I wake up for Fajr, I have remnant scenes, feelings and images of what I dreamt during the night. This morning when I woke up I remembered my dream. I dreamed of changing society in one day.
by Shezena T. Mohammed
Some people grimace at the thought of young Muslims being a part of Western culture. But we are. Just growing up here, we cannot help but be a part of this culture. It is ingrained in us just as any other culture is ingrained in any other person, and I don’t think that it is necessarily a bad thing.
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.