Archive for June, 2008

Get Viagra at IslamToday.com? »

So I visited IslamToday.com to find an answer to a question and found something very awkward and different for the website under the general supervision of Shaykh Salman Al-Oadah. Here is a screen cap of the main page that I saw.
 
Yes that says Certified Canadian Pharmacy, Xanax, and Viagra with free shipping under the Fatwa […]

The Nikah Kitaba Survival Guide »

Nikaḥ kitāba, otherwise known as “celibate marriage,” has become an increasingly common and preferred way of marriage for many young Muslim couples. A young man and woman may find themselves wanting to marry one another, but at the time are unable to live together. So instead of being engaged for long periods of time and […]

My Dream Wedding Registry »

I’ve been married for over 18 months by nikāḥ kitāba. In less than a week, my wife and I will be having our wedding party and she’ll be moving here to Chicago, inshaAllah. I’ve created a personal Wedding Registry for you to go through and purchase for me. After all, you want to buy me […]

Handshakes With The Opposite Gender: A Different Response »

The following is not written by me, but by my friend, Siraaj Muhammad. It was a comment on another blog regarding the permissibility/impermissibility of shaking hands with non-mahrams and how that affects us Muslims in our lives (i.e. getting jobs, doing da’wah, etc.).
This is my own personal opinion and experience - what many people […]