October 27, 2003 | 1 Ramadan 1424 Hijriah
From: 
veiled4allah
veiled4allaha hidden voice of Islam
The San Jose Mercury News has an excellent profile of a community of African-American Muslims and their experiences and struggles. Here's how it starts: In the midst of an impoverished East Oakland neighborhood as concerned with the war on drugs...
From: 
The Clipboard
The ClipboardThis person doesn't sound white
While I entertained the sound and significance of each potential moniker (Kofi is Twi for "born on Friday" – what if he's born on Tuesday?), I started to wonder about the consequences of giving him an obviously "ethnic" name. It...
From: 
A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah al-Haqqah ayah 25
Wa amma man utiya kitabahu bi shimalihi fa yaqulu ya laytani lam uta kitabiyah Then as for whoever is given his record in his left hand, so he will say, Oh, would that my record had not been given...
From: A Quranic Journal
A Quranic JournalSurah al-Haqqah ayah 24
Kulu wa ishrabu hanian bi maa aslaftum fi al-ayyami al-khaliyati Eat and drink in satisfaction because of what you did before, in the days gone by The following is an excerpt of commentary on this ayah, from Tafsir Ibn...
From: veiled4allah
veiled4allahRamadan blogging
Muslim Wake Up has a Ramadan Journal blog where people are sharing their Ramadan thoughts and experiences. I may be posting to this on occasion, inshallah. Update: I'm now officially a blogger at the Ramadan Journal and my first post,...
