God’s love in the Quran My wife related an interesting incident she couldn’t help observing whilst travelling in the subway. An apparently Muslim lady wearinga hijab was standing next to her seat holding on to the vertical steel support with one hand and reading sotto voce from a little book she held in the other.It did not take long for …
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Ask a Muslim: Students encourage questions to promote understanding
By Oona Goodin-Smith, Oakland University “Free chocolate!” echoed through the lobby of Oakland University’s South Foundation Hall late last week. “We started with donuts, but so many people came that we ran out,” explained Muslim Student Association President Sumayya Master. “Sometimes people are shy, but we thought if there was food they’d come — and they did.” The table’s handmade …
Read More »Singing & Music in Islam – Halal, Haram or Middle Ground?
By Asiff Hussein A topic that still has many Muslims confused is whether singing and music is permissible or prohibited. Many charismatic Muslim speakers today in the rhetorical cherry-picking style of America’s evangelical preachers often take a one-sided view of the issue, and typically rant against musical entertainment in any form. People like Abdul Raheem Green belong to this category …
Read More »Here’s What Happens When You Compare Violence in the Quran to Violence in the Bible
To the well-informed this staggering statistic should come as no surprise: Fifty-eight percent of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of Islam. And with that comes a laundry list of misinformation about the faith's holy text, the Quran. But a recent project by data analyst and research marketer Tom Anderson turns one common misconception on its head: that the Quran is …
Read More »Muslim chivalry: the higher ground for marriage
In the literature discussing Futuwwa, which has been translated as Muslim chivalry, there is the story of a young man who was engaged to marry a particularly beautiful woman. Before the wedding day, his fiancée was afflicted with a severe case of chicken pox which left her face terribly disfigured. Her father wrote to him informing him of the situation …
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