Accounting 350 this week was the same as usual, slow and unexciting. There I was stuck in a three hour night class, slightly bored and fiddling with my phone. All of that changed 48 minutes into the class when I received the following text message from a Muslim brother in another building on campus also […]

Abdul-Sattar sent me an article about a baby boy who survived a 100-yard launch from the tornado that hit Tennessee.
Armed with nothing but a flashlight and finding no signs of life, firefighter David Harmon made one final search of tornado wreckage and made the discovery of a lifetime.
“I shined the flashlight across it and said […]

Read this story from AFP:
On Thursday night, Nasima Begum, 30, woke up to howling winds and high waves rolling from the sea into her thatched hut near Patharghata.
Before her house collapsed, she managed to gather her children and fight her way through the water to a nearby tree. She held onto the tree and asked […]

Here’s what’s been going on in in Southern California for the past few days for those of us living in caves. Almost 900,000 people have been evacuated out of their homes for massive wildfires that are sweeping So-Cal. Click the pic.

Imam Suhaib Webb in his Purification of the Soul set mentions a reflection about the […]