Articles filed under Relationships
Chapter 4: The Buses Are Here, The Buses Are He– PSYCHE! (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Actually, ignore everything I’ve told you about Hajj. Just remember this: Hajj is waiting for buses. The buses never come. You stop believing in the buses. You think everyone is lying about the buses. When someone barges into your room (or tent) switching on lights and clapping their hands yelling, “The buses are here!... Read More →
Chapter 3: The Race of Hajj (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. Some people climb Mount Everest, some people prepare to achieve Olympic gold medals, some people pioneer outer space. It seems to always be to prove how far they can push themselves, how much they can accomplish if they put their minds to it. Maybe they even do it to come to peace with an internal struggle. Others, I guess,... Read More →
Chapter 2: Better Than Getting a Letter from Hogwarts (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. I always secretly wished I would wake up one day and find an owl perched up on my bed frame with a piece of paper in between its beak bearing the Hogwarts insignia. Even though I knew I was being silly, the age of eleven came and went and then so did all the years thereafter. When I graduated from high school and as I wrapped... Read More →
Chapter 1: So, How Was Your Hajj? (Hajj series)
Visit MuslimahSource.org every Monday and Thursday for a new chapter to this Hajj adventure. I stared blankly at the face of the auntie in front of me with my mouth partly open just going, “Uhhhh…” I probably looked like my brain had just shut down but this was my typical answer to, “So, how was your Hajj?” To my surprise, I was having more issues with everyone around me asking me how my Hajj was the way they... Read More →
Who Am I to Judge? On Imagined Humility
By Umm Zakiyyah “Are you so righteous,” the sister asked, “that you can now fix all the sinful?” Almost anyone who is actively involved in Islamic work can relate to hearing these sorts of comments in response to their da’wah efforts. And each time someone says this, the underlying message is clear: Because you are “pointing out others’ sins,” you must think you’re better than everyone else. Then... Read More →
It’s a bird… it’s a plane… it’s… Baba!
When I was a child, I loved to get piggy-back rides from my father. I would run over, jump onto his back, and make him walk around with me clinging onto his chest and back. I thought he was the strongest, most amazing man in the world and that he could never do anything wrong. In many ways, I put my father on a pedestal in my mind; he was invincible, untouchable. For those of us who, alhamdulilLahi Rabb al-`alameen (all... Read More →
The Loves of my Life
Recently over the course of the last few months, a realization hit me deeper than it had ever before. The realization is nothing extraordinary, and in fact is something that everyone really already knows. But having freshly moved out of my parents’ house eight months for the first time in my life, I felt it as as conspicuously as a splash of cold water: I really wish I had spent more time with my family. You see, we,... Read More →
Beneath the Leaves
In this dunya we are trees. From a seed we sprout and roots erupt forth and we flourish into an image of branches and leaves. Our leaves encompass us into a tree. We can choose to be rooted in rich soil or we can choose to have diseased roots contaminating the leaves from above. Intentions, or niyyah are the roots of all our actions. They can strengthen or weaken our relationship with Allah (swt). It is not an act of... Read More →
Wings of Mercy, Part 1
By: Rahma J. In the midst of studies and many more other things, a friend of mine brought up the topic of family relations and the preservation of the ties of kin. Subhana’Allah, this topic is one that concerns many of us, as none of us live in isolation but our surrounded but those who have rights upon us. Prior to sitting down and beginning to write about this particular topic, I personally had to sit down and actually... Read More →
Musa & Safurah: a Courtship, a Romance
I am from Generation X. Raised on ‘Pretty in Pink’ and Sweet Dreams romance novels, some of my friends read Mills and Boons, others raved about the unattainable love in the Thorn birds; but I preferred the grand passion of Wuthering Heights. That was my idea of a romance – filling each other completely, a religion of love. It also came from Indian movies; rich girl falls for poor guy, they dance around trees in... Read More →
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