By Crystal Daulton Purification of the Heart: “As you live deeper in the heart, the mirror gets clearer and cleaner” -Rumi Indeed the heart is the reflection of oneself; a place where imaan can illuminate, or disease can ravish. How can one purify the...
By Zaynab Dawood For years I had a detached understanding of the analogies set before us in our religious heritage, of the stories of the anbiyaa ( prophets), those in the Quran and even those from the Seerah. It was only when I pushed myself over this mental...
By Asma Nemati I can easily get lost in nature. When watching a small river run, for example, I can sit for a long time and simply gaze and observe. Perhaps a fish will appear, jumping out of water as if to take a break from the fast current of the river. A twig might...
By Calisha Bennett A Muslim pilgrim is in pursuit. “And [mention] when We made the House a place of return for the people and [a place of] security. And take, [O believers], from the standing place of Abraham a place of prayer. And We charged Abraham and Ishmael,...
By Aliya Vaughan “Do they not travel through the land, so that their hearts (and minds) may thus learn wisdom and their ears may thus learn to hear?”Surah Al-Hajj 22:46 Life itself is one long journey, full of twists and turns, taking us down one-way streets and dead...