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Dumbfounded By Death

I’m dumbfounded by death. It’s like I don’t even know what it is. I think it’s just like the level up, or the next phase. Maybe it’s like waking up. It’s like the waiting room to get to your ultimate destination; you’ve already traveled the path, and now you’re just waiting to get in.

Women, Witches and Christianity

I have read all those articles about Islam saying that it’s a terrorist religion. The kind of articles where they take things from the Qur’an or hadith out of context and use it do define us. If I ever need proof of the ayah, “They are deaf, dumb and blind, and understand nothing” (Quran 2:171) all I need to do is look at those articles. It is not my intention to let this article be degraded to a level of such blind accusations and insinuations. I sincerely want to know what this Original Sin is all about and I want to give the Christians a fair chance to explain so that they don’t feel defensive towards me and so they don’t say that I’m only trying to “get them”.

Iftar With the Devil

The things that happened, and are still happening during this Ramadan in my masjid are more intolerable and dramatic than the concluding scene in a Spanish soap opera. Oh, the drama.

The Powerful Bonds of The Family Unit

I have an uncle whom I had never met until about a year and a half ago. My dad hadn’t seen him in about 30 years, the last time being when he was just a small boy. We could have passed him in the street and not known who he was, but after we got acquainted with him and the reality that he had the same blood in him as we did sunk in, it was as if we had known him all along. He was in our unit and received and was entitled to the same love as anyone else. I wouldn’t have believed that it would make so much of a difference to whether he was related to us or not, in how accepting and loving we were to him, but it was. He was family and that’s all it took.

How to Change Society in One Day

After I prayed I remembered the question the man had asked me. I began to consider, just for argument’s sake, that it was possible for just one person to change society, even in this day and age, and even in one day. What could one person do to change society in one day, and that day being today?

Limbo: the Teenage Years

I turned eighteen last month. Officially and legally now I am an adult. In reality I am no different from what I was the month before, and I doubt that there will be very much change in me in a month from now. I think it must be a cultural thing that I don’t see a difference in myself. I have been conditioned to become an adult slowly and I’m still in limbo.

Class of 2003

When I enrolled in college, I had been homeschooled for a year and half and I felt I had earned my place in college… In college I learned to deal with people who were rude or mean and people who were so annoying they made me want to cry. I dealt with bad lab partners and unfair teachers and people who would try to make things particularly easy for me because of how I looked.

Practicing Islam in America

People say that you should move to a Muslim country as soon as you can, because this country (America) is bad for Muslims, but if all you have ever known is Queens, New York, then what are you supposed to do? I was born in Queens and I love this country.

New Life, New Beginnings

As my father picked up my new baby brother and called the azzan in his ear, the crack in my father’s voice from the tears running down his cheeks would make even doves cry. He was our gift from Allah SWT and one we know from experience that we take for granted all too often. He came just in time for Ramadan when most of us usually start counting our blessings and come to realize just how many we have.

Teenagers and Marriage: Not a Lethal Combination

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. We weren’t at the age where it’s normal to get married and I wondered why anyone our age would want to do so anyway. And then suddenly I realized that we were at that age.

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