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The Day of Judgment: What Have You Prepared For It?
July 6, 2021

5 min readWhen studying the teachings of the Prophet (ﷺ), it is important to look at how he taught his companions to adjust their perspectives, showing them that it is an [...]

Bringing the Nonmaterial to the Fore: Reading Harry Potter as a Muslim
June 6, 2021

8 min readإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِٱلْعَدْلِ وَٱلْإِحْسَـٰنِ وَإِيتَآئِ ذِى ٱلْقُرْبَىٰ وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ ٱلْفَحْشَآءِ وَٱلْمُنكَرِ وَٱلْبَغْىِ ۚ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ “Indeed, God commands justice, excellence, and generosity toward relatives…” (Qur’an 16:90) At [...]

Planting Seeds: Seeking Islamic Knowledge in North America
June 6, 2021

10 min readThe only thing Allah (ﷻ) commanded His Prophet (ﷺ) to supplicate for an increase in is knowledge; “and say, ‘My Lord, increase me in knowledge’.”1 Imam al-Qurṭubī (rahimahu Allah, [...]

Ramadan: Refueling for the Marathon, with Tesneem Alkiek
April 5, 2021

7 min readOur team had the opportunity to interview Sr. Tesneem Alkiek, Director of Expanded Learning at Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research, about preparing ourselves for a sincere and transformative Ramadan [...]

Faith in the Time of Corona
April 5, 2021

8 min readWe asked our readers to share their reflections on Ramadan 2020 as we prepare to enter our second COVID Ramadan. This is a compilation of some of their submissions, [...]

Priming the Wandering Mind for Mindfulness
March 7, 2021

5 min readIn the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. We’ve all been there before. We want to focus on something, but our mind keeps racing. The thoughts [...]

The Islamic Uncertainty Principle
February 7, 2021

12 min readI learned precious little about the coronavirus during our month-long acquaintance, but it taught me much about the regime of numbers that it has casually usurped. We’ve accepted numbers [...]

Balancing Act: Life and the Afterlife
February 7, 2021

10 min readThere was a companion by the name of Handhala (radi Allahu ‘anhu, may Allah be pleased with him) who once contemplated the state of his iman (faith). After much [...]

Soft Skills: The Importance of Personal Development
January 4, 2021

8 min read“It doesn’t really matter how good they are at their job if no one wants to work with them.” That’s what my dad told me when I posed a [...]

Building Focus in an Age of Distractions
December 6, 2020

6 min readBetween high school and university, something shifted in the way I consumed information. Whenever I sat at my laptop to get work done, I inadvertently ended up with dozens [...]

A Psycho-Spiritual Analysis of a Prayer for Times of Difficulty
December 6, 2020

9 min readNote: This is a summary and reflection based on the article “Islamic Spirituality and Mental Well-Being” by Dr. Zohair Abdul-Rahman for Yaqeen Institute of Islamic Research. The original article [...]

Difficult Conversations: An Introduction to Addressing Racism
October 13, 2020

8 min readAs the brutal murder of George Floyd motivated weeks of unrest and protest amongst those seeking justice and reform, the actions of non-black Muslim communities to support the voices [...]

Suffering unto God
October 13, 2020

7 min readIn the rising tide of the COVID-19 pandemic, an existential threat to life has captured the minds of many; a threat superseding the manufactured moral panics of crime, immigration, [...]

The Power of Personal Narrative
October 13, 2020

6 min readAlbus Dumbledore’s final words in the Harry Potter novels didn’t make much sense to me when I read them for the first time as a kid in elementary school. [...]