Assalamu alaykum,
The “Cisco and Sujud” talk and the new Tafsir of Surah Kahf mp3s are now in the Audio Lectures page!  Also, the “intensive class”, taught recently in Chicago, on Risalatul Mustarshideen (spiritual advice for those seeking to get closer to Allah), is also posted.
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p.s. sorry about the delay in getting the podcast up, I [...]

Confessions of a “practicing Muslim American”
“You are a beautiful Person with so much to give. You have the strength and courage and ability and Power and everything to do it. I have seen so much sadness in your eyes I haven’t seen in anyone’s eyes before. I haven’t to see those eyes again and for [...]

“The funny thing about faith-based mutual funds is, well, that there’s anything called a faith-based mutual fund. For one thing, Scripture is full of exhortations against accumulating wealth. The New Testament, especially, repeatedly reminds followers of Christ that earthly wealth means nothing in heaven. “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye [...]

1. Have a workout plan
The one who enters the gym without a plan and randomly goes to each machine, watches various people who each of their various goals and tries to imitiate them without any objective, will not achieve substantial gains in anything.
But one who decides his goal is aerobic fitness, or muscular size, or [...]

Asalamu alaykum,
I want to take some time, again after a year and half, to encourage all to register to vote and support Sen. Barak Obama. Although there are certain things I disagree with, I hold that the benefits of Sen. Obama over Sen. Mccain leave a Muslim no choice but to vote for the former. [...]

2008 seems to have seen its fair share of AlMaghrib Institute instructors coming to Chicago. First in January came AbdulBary Yahya for The Shepherd’s Path, followed by Yasir Qadhi in March for an orientalist conference he spoke at, followed by AbdulBary coming again for Loyola MSA’s IAW dinner, followed by YQ again for Light Upon [...]

Sprinters have long been squeezing their muscular frames into the most eye-wateringly skimpy, tight and revealing costumes imaginable.

But one female athlete at this year’s Olympics is bucking the trend for bulging lycra and naked torsos.
In 2004, Bahrain’s Ruqaya Al Ghasara, a devout Muslim, was the first athlete to ever take part in an Olympics wearing [...]

I was walking past a group of young boys, and noticed his money had fallen out of his pocket, without thinking twice, I called the group and pointed out that someone had dropped their money. He replied; ‘Awh, nice one!’. I carried on walking like it was a normal everyday thing to do without expecting [...]

There was one Ramadan a few years ago, during my undergraduate years, that I know I will not forget as long as I live.  It was my second Ramadan in a university setting, and I loved the way it brought the Muslim student’s community closer: communal iftars, the numbers of people coming to pray their [...]