Women from across the nation attended ICNA Sisters’ first ever American Muslim Women’s Conference Saturday, Oct. 7, in Chantilly, Virginia to talk about “Changing the Narrative” of Muslim women in …
Know These Great Women of Islamic History
In the Qur’an, Allah SWT declares: “For Muslim men and women, for believing men and women, for devout men and women, for true men and women, for men and women who are …
Shariah Laws and Women: Interpretations and Misinterpretations
Women’s issues are the real test for the current Islamic reform. The reason is that groundless and unfair differentiation between men and women is deeply embedded in many popular opinions …
Empowering Women – Reinstituting the Divinely Ordained Balance
Most human authority, historically, has deemed itself privileged, preferred, and entitled. That has repeatedly resulted in debasement, harm, and denial of rights for countless human beings. Prophet Muhammad, peace be …
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid – Mother of the Believers
She personified faithfulness, integrity, nobility, generosity, and intelligence. This noblewoman of the Quraysh, Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (may Allah be pleased with her) was a strong business woman, an independent and …
Who Defines Me
As I sit in the lecture hall listening to a scholar speak about haya’ and modesty, I brace myself for what’s to come. Sure enough, right on cue, the scholar …
A Lifetime of Service
In 1987, he walked 2500 km across the Arabian Peninsula in order to perform Hajj and collect funds for a charitable hospital in Karachi. He was 66 years old. In …
A Woman of True Submission to God
Maimunah bint Al-Harith became one of the wives of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) seven years after the Muslims’ emigration from Makkah to Madinah (known to Muslims as the …
Family Structure: The Complete Puzzle
I have seen it all too often—the woman who complains that her husband takes her daughter’s side;or a grandmother (either maternal or paternal) living in the home is spoiling the …
The Female Scholars of Islam
“O Mankind! Fear your Lord who has created you from a single soul, and from it He created its mate; and from them both, He brought forth multitudes of men …