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 …
Counseling for a Healthy Family
How does counseling help people make their families better, safer, secure and loving? To understand this, we have to be familiar with the goals and objectives of counseling, family counseling, …
Breaking the Silence: Marital Legal Issues
Marriage is a sacred pact between man and woman, and yet is often turns sour. Couples may believe that there is nothing they can do to rectify the situation. Many …
Searching for a Pure Spouse
One day, a young pious man by the name of Thabit had no food to eat. As he was walking, he came across a garden with an abundance of apple …
Marriage, Intimacy Related Questions
Twenty years ago when my children were growing up, living in American society, I realized the need for appropriate Islamic sex education for Muslim youth and parents. I wrote an …
Taking care of autistic child
Q I am blessed with an autistic child and he is an adult now. We are getting old. If we are not capable to take care of him what should …