Sailan Muslimah

  You’d think after watching BBC Three’s Make me a Muslim documentary, being a female convert to Islam is so riddled with fault lines. Not really. My recent interviews with Muslim converts offered a rare glimpse into the lives of three women who would flatly reject such comparisons. And they’re all buzzing with spiritual ecstasy, retelling what caused them to …

The head scarf was the only hindrance in the way for the oldest woman in the world to enter the so-called Guinness World Records.   124-year-old Palestinian Maryam Hamdan Ammash, her sons and grandsons refused to meet the condition of the Guinness team for the aged woman to take off her head scarf and appear on TV.   Maryam's family …

An entrepreneur, teacher, mom and volunteer, Fathima Farook has had to put up with shameful taunts for nothing more than her choice of garb.   Fathima Farook has a pleasant round face and warm dark eyes. If you buy her pakoora or aloo masala at the Evergreen Brick Works Farmers Market, though, you’ll see her eyes but not her face. …

    “In Islam, my quest for absolute values was satisfied. In Islam I found all that was true, good     and beautiful and that which gives meaning and direction to human life (and death)… My adherence to the Islamic faith is thus a calm, cool but very intense conviction.” Maryam Jameelah (may Allah have mercy on her, 23 May 1934 …

I have been Muslim for about two and a half years now. About 6 months after that, I began dressing more modestly, wearing long sleeves, looser fitting clothes, etc. I knew then that I would eventually want to/ need to wear a hijab, but wasn’t ready for that. I’ve been seriously considering wearing a hijab for the past year, but …

  Read   this interview with sister Alicia about her Journey to Islam; the self-destructive lifestyle she used to lead and the devastating ordeals she experienced and the happiness, satisfaction, and spiritual fulfillment that she enjoys now after embracing Islam.   I didn’t come from a very religious family. I mean they say they are religious but they are not really what …