If you are an immigrant victim of spousal abuse, you can still get a Green Card without any help from your U.S. citizen or Green Card holder spouse who has …
From Mulberry to Silk: The Journey of Islam in China
China is sometimes referred to as a “riddle wrapped in an enigma”. A nation with an ancient civilization that is one of the fastest growing economies of the modern world, …
Welcome to the College Experience
College is right around the corner for the new freshman of 2010. It’s also not that far off for the class of 2011 either. It’s a very exciting and daunting …
Searching porn on internet
What should a mother do when she finds out her son has been searching for pornography on the internet? A by Imam Jawad Ahmed: First of all, the mother should …
Fiqh of the Muslim Minorities
“Fiqh of the minorities” (Fiqh al-Aqalliyyat) is a specific discipline that takes into account the relationship between the religious ruling and the conditions of the community, including the location where …
Wife Responsibilities with In-Laws
Q What is a woman’s responsibility when it comes to her in-laws? A by Sh. Abdool Rahman Khan: The relationship with in-laws is nothing new in Islam. It is perhaps …
Fiqh of Minorities: What Does It Deal With?
Fiqh (jurisprudential understanding) of Minorities is a contemporary terminology for issues that were discussed and presented by earlier fiqh scholars in a widely scattered form. The breadth of this term …
Literary Beauty of Divine Speech
On the subject of words that are closely related to one another yet carry slightly different shades of meaning, I am going to be contributing three more posts including this …
Fiqh of Muslim Minorities: Necessity or Innovation?
Q: There is a scholarly difference nowadays as to fiqh al-aqalliyyat or the fiqh of Muslim minorities. Some scholars regard it as an innovation that manipulates Allah’s religion, and some …
Sh. Sayyid Sabiq: A Living Encyclopedia of Fiqh
The Scholar Shaykh Sayyid Sabiq was a great Egyptian Muslim scholar who left a profound legacy to the world in the field of fiqh studies, having written one of the …