I’m Just Joking!
With the great American holiday of April Fool’s having just passed us, the permissibility of exaggeration and stretching the truth in joking has been a hot issue. Is it okay to be sarcastic? Why can’t we stretch the truth a bit? Isn’t it okay if we’re just joking?
In our efforts to follow the hadith of […]
Falling In Love…Online
A big Jazak Allahu khayr to Saqib for finding this. “Never in my years of seeing Islamic websites on this topic have I seen this good of a fatwa, mashaAllah,” he commented as, he showed me the link.
Question: Two people fall in love after getting to know each other online. Will their marriage be a […]
Be Easy
I’m not gonna to lie, one of my side-intentions for going to Michigan to attend the MMYC Conference last weekend was to finally get some Tim Horton’s after such a long time.
Putting that aside, I was legitimately excited for the experience of meeting new brothers and seeing what this weekend was all about. Little did […]
Conversion Aversion
Picture yourself in the future, in the delivery room with your first-born child. Imagine the intense amount of love you have for your child - all the dreams, aspirations, and all the great times you look forward to having with your child. Think about the drive home from the hospital, after the child has […]
A Forgotten Sunnah - A Way To Help Muslim Youth
I’m sure that the slew of wedding invitations our families receive during wedding season every year has engrained the translation of 30:21, from Surat ar-Room, into our minds:
“And among His Signs is this: that He [Allah] created for you wives from among yourselves, that you may find tranquility in them, and He has put between […]