My 15-year-old cousin Umair who moved to Chennai (Madras), India last year called me up a week ago ecstatic. “Dude, I saw Yasir Qadhi! It was awesome. He gave the opening speech at the Peace Convention. It was amazing, everyone loved it. Dude!”
Whoa, slow down turbo! I got the rest of the info from him […]

When I began high school, I attended a local Friday night youth group halaqh. One night, the brother preparing the talk for the night handed out copies of an article with a series of powerful questions on it. The questions were very powerful, but as for what they were and what they asked, it seems […]

Nice attention getting title, huh? This isn’t about Fiqh of Salah, per se, but then again it is. Sometimes we may focus so much on the physical movements and actions of Salah that we may overlook another equally important aspect of prayer, niyyah, or intention. Check out this quote I read from Sayings of the […]

Both of the AlMaghrib seminars I took in Windsor, ON in 2007 mentioned tests from Allah. The first was Seerah: The Shepherd’s Path by Muhammad Alshareef. The second was A Heart Serene: Studies In Tazkiyah by Riad Ourazazzi. Here’s some gems from both.

1. Recognizing the Tests
Think of that one girl you know who’s got the […]

My brother-in-law Osman and his wife Haniyyah were blessed to perform Hajj this year. They traveled with AlManasik, a Portland, OR based Hajj tour service, and signed up to be in the group led by Shaykh Muhammad Alshareef. The two had a blast and said AlManasik was tip-top organized from the moment they left the […]