The day before the shootings in San Bernadino, California, a friend of mine, who is a distinguished journalist, sent the following note to me from Belgium: “Salaams, I have been in Belgium for a few days now. The Muslim community here is in serious trouble and they know it.…

Refuting the Idea That A Muslim (Amin al-Husayni) Prompted the Holocaust Note: This is an excerpt from a longer article I wrote refuting the idea that “Muslims are the new Fascists” and that the prompting of a pro-Nazi Muslim, Amin al-Husayni, led to the Holocaust. This allegation was recently advanced…

I passed a begging veteran today. Sitting on a bench. No homeless stench. He held an empty cup in his hand. It pleaded for money to help the man. He sat forlorn in military dress. His face portrayed a life of stress. Had…

“We belong to Allah, and unto Him we will all return…” Death has an uncanny way of rearranging our priorities. Before an early morning text message yesterday from a dear friend, like many Muslims here in the United States, I was preoccupied with an easily recognizable laundry list of…

Who are we? The entire world is waiting to see, Just what this Ummah might be, But can we tell them who we could be, When we ourselves cannot see… Who we are. Are we the proverbial raisin withering in the sun? Are we…

Most of us are familiar with the story of the boy, the old man and the starfish. A storm had washed up thousands of starfish onto a beach. An old man who was strolling on the sandy stretch noticed a little boy in the distance frantically throwing as many of…

From eastern skies the stars brought forth their light, Conveyed by hearts transcending desert nights, Igniting flames that burn the dross of sin, Bequeathing the courage to gaze within, Freeing the hearts to know the secrets there, Those secrets to their lovers do they share.

There have been 210 mass shootings in the United States this year. A mass shooting is described as a shooting that has four or more victims. Of those 210 mass shootings, only one, the killing of the Marines in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was perpetrated by a Muslim. That unfortunate and tragic…

Today’s New York Times’ (NYT) article highlighting ISIS’ sexual enslavement of Yazidi women has cast a critical light on the issue of slavery and Islam. The ensuing implications should concern all Muslims. This is so owing to the fact that ISIS presents its practices as normative Islam and accuses the…

Tree and sky, Green, blue and white; Imagination, Serenity and flight. Not even the sky, Can limit our dreams… Which is one way God tells us, Better days are ahead.