Why do people get married? I was asked recently by a young woman after my lecture on the age of Lady ‘Aisha. Though the purpose of the question was vague, I answered anyhow; people marry for love, companionship, etc. Well, she followed up, how could someone find that with a 6-year-old? One of the biggest […]
I stumbled across one of Sheikh Nuh’s old pamphlets that someone had given me years ago. Early in its pages, he lays out the profound difference between Academic Islamic studies and Traditional Islamic studies. He states: University degrees… indicate a certain earnestness and effort of those who possess them but it cannot take the place… […]
There was a time when I felt afraid of making dua. My reasoning? I didn’t want to be angry with God. If things didn’t work out -if I prayed for something that didn’t come to pass, what was I supposed to feel? If God didn’t give me what I wanted I feared I’d be left […]
In a study measuring sexual arousal, heterosexual women were found to be equally aroused by gay, lesbian and heterosexual sexual scenarios —some would call this “sexual fluidity”. Interesting enough most of the women still said they were mostly aroused by the heterosexual sexual scenarios. Why would this cognitive dissonance exist? The LGBT community would like […]
When I started studying Islam somewhat seriously, I listened to everyone —perennial Sufis, Salafis, Shia, and traditional scholars. For a while my favorite scholar was Bilal Philips. It took a while until I found my way and when I did I stuck with. After a year or two of going to lectures and conferences, I […]
She started to create a bizarre ritual where she would call the maid to the dining room, stand in place, then send the maid away. Through a bit of digging Freud discovered that her husband, to whom she was separated, had been impotent on their wedding night. After attempting several failed attempts to “deflower” his […]
Join us for a discussion on Islam and Feminism where we’ll answer the following questions: What is Feminism? How has Feminism affected our discourse around gender? Is it possible to be Muslim and Feminist? Is Feminism compatible with Islam? And how do we condemn some of the missteps of Feminism without ignoring lived experiences of […]
In Islam, unlike in Christianity, God is neither a literal man nor a metaphorical male. God is never referred to as ‘father’ but we do have to grapple with the same masculine third person singular that, for some, is problematic. In the Chapter titled, The Iron, God says, “It is He who created the heavens […]
You may ask, “If Allah (SWT) has already written what my future is, what’s the purpose of me trying to steer my life one way or the other? “But it’s much more complicated than even that. God not only knows the future, he knows all future and he knows the details of the future and […]
The following series on Free Will is a slightly edited version of my lecture at Rutgers University Annual Conference, Road to Revival 2019. Everything is created by and under the dominion of God. And that’s the first thing we have to understand in order to understand the will of God. Secondly, we must understand that […]
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