Writing about the literary dimension of the Quran for an audience that may or may not have background in Arabic grammar and rhetoric can be rather challenging. I am going …
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Individuals
One important lesson that we can learn from the Sahaba is that their successes were due to the fact that they were God–conscious individuals. They were committed to ensuring that …
Islamophobia and the Muslim Center at Groud Zero
The proposal by the Cordoba Initiative to build an Islamic center near Ground Zero has drawn major media attention and engendered fierce debate. Right-wing political commentators, politicians, hard-line Christian ministers, …
Decide What Type of a Person You Are
You hear a close friend of yours backbiting about you to other friends. He does not know that you can hear. You know this same friend is always nice to …
Arabic Education for our Children
More and more Muslim parents in the west are now voicing their desire to give their kids a quality Arabic education, something they themselves didn’t have. I am one such …
The Comfort Zone and the Courage Zone
Putting your first things first takes courage and will often cause you to stretch outside of your comfort zone. Your comfort zone represents things that you are familiar with, places …
Spotlight: Imam Al-Qurtabi
Imam Al-Qurtub? [died 671H/1272CE]: Ab? ‘Abdullah Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Ab?bakr al-AnS?r? al-Khazraj? al-Qurtub?, also known as “the Shaykh of the Qur’anic commentators,” was a prolific scholar born and raised …
How Do You Achieve Synergy?
There are five steps that you need to follow to achieve this: · Define the problem or opportunity · Their way (seek first to understand the ideas of others) · …
Living Within Our Means
We live in an age of extremism. No, not just violent manifestations of extremism that the media tends to focus on almost exclusively. Extremism of every kind: from the way …
What is Your Response?
“Not equal is the good response and the bad response. You shall resort to the nicest possible response…” (Al-Quran, 41:34) If someone does bad to you, be patient If someone …