Wa SalaamWa Salaam******************A Muslim-American Journal****************** Articles
Teaching Good Manners
2007-09-10 07:21:00 God said to the Believers, “Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity.” (003: 104) And as we grow into adulthood, we accumulate various responsibilities. These responsibilities cause pressure, that pressure tends ... More About: Society , Religion , Islam , Communication , Teaching
Dean Esmay Hosts The Next Carnival of Islam?
2007-09-07 18:52:00 Don’t forget to submit your post. Interestingly enough, this months edition will be hosted by a non-Muslim - though we are gradually working on that - none other than our friendly neighbor Dean Esmay. More About: Religion , Islam , Carnival , Blogging
Muslims Running From Sufism
2007-08-31 22:13:00 I’m curious why more Muslims aren’t affiliated with one tariqat or another. Tasawwuf (sufism) is an Islamic Science that can be traced to the ahl al-suffa (people of the veranda), who were sahab-e-kiram (companions of the Prophet (peace be upon him) that would spend much of their time outside of the Prophet’s house in devotion ... More About: Religion , Running , Sufism , The Prophet
Living the Traditions of the Prophets
2007-08-22 07:30:00 I have been having trouble sleeping lately and although some nights when I can’t sleep I make the extra prayers this night, tonight was not one of them. Instead I went to the Osmanli Naksibendi-Hakkani website to look at some of Shaykh Effendi, Abdul-Kerim’s older sohbet. And one of them stood out for me a ... More About: Living , Stories , Traditions , The Prophet , Appearance
Fiqh Before Tariqat
2007-08-05 09:47:00 This topic surfaced out of the signature tagline of a commenter on this blog. The commenter responded to the Mercy on Friday post and incidentally opened up the opportunity for a discussion on something that is affecting Islam in a very big way and that is the idea of “fiqh before tariqat” and the subsequent ... More About: Education , Blogging , Sufism , Fiqh , Hamza Yusuf
Mercy on Friday
2007-08-03 09:38:00 There is a hadith mentioned in the shadhili saint Shaykh al-Jazuli’s dalail-i khayrat (Guide of Good Deeds) that relates the Prophet (may Allah praise and venerate him and grant him peace) saying, “Whosoever asks Allah one hundred times to praise me on a Friday will be forgiven the sins of eighty years.” This is a Mercy from ... More About: Religion , Prayer , Muslims , The Prophet
Announcement: The Carnival of Islam in the West (12)
2007-07-30 18:27:00 The next edition of the Carnival of Islam in the West is almost here. This is just a quick blurb to encourage you to participate. Samaha will be hosting this time around so lets show her some support. You may submit you blog post >> here <<, as-salaamu ‘alaikum. Powered by ScribeFire. More About: Announcement , Slam
Bay?at and the Birth of Saifuddin
2007-07-29 16:34:00 Blogging, for me, began as an expression of identity, the expression of an identity which had been beaten and bruised in the backlashings of American society. Interestingly enough, it was this very same society which gave birth to this identity, an identity which is now demonized. That is to say, the American Muslim, estranged and ... More About: Society , Islam , Sufism , Christians , Birth
Qur?an Reading/Tajweed Classes For Women
2007-07-22 00:05:00 ????????????????? as-salaamu ‘alaikum, I just received a notice from M.E.C.C.A. (Muslim Education Convert Center of America) saying that they are offering a new course for muslimat (ladies). The course is Basic Quran Reading , masha’allah, and its designed to help the beginner learn how to read and recite the al-qur’an al-karim (The Holy Qur’an). The course will ... More About: Women , For Women , Events
Fitness and Self-Defense for Women
2007-07-18 17:26:00 (more…) More About: Women , For Women , Fitness , Defense , Self-Defense
What is Saudis? Role in Iraq?
2007-07-18 03:17:00 Here is a story from the L.A. Times attempting to “outline” Saudi Arabia ’s involvement in the Iraq work. Essentially, what they are asking is are they with us or against us as Times staff writer Ned Parkers claims, “Fighters from Saudi Arabia are thought to have carried out more suicide bombings than those of any other ... More About: News , Politics , Jihad
The Lord?s Prayer
2007-07-17 05:36:00 I ran across this video on Youtube and I just had to post it. Khalid Yasin, probably has the most powerful voice that I have ever heard. The tonal quality alone makes me want to pullout the old leather socks! wa allahi! More About: Video , Christianity , Islam , Prayer , Lord
Why Do Women Convert to Islam?
2007-07-16 21:46:00 I get a lot of emails from Americans - of various political backgrounds - with a lot to say about Islam . This happens usually after I write posts like, Making A Modern Muslim World, On Theocracy and Liberty and Is Islam Compatible with Democracy and frankly, I know what I’m getting myself into when I ... More About: Society , Women , Books , Appearance
Knowledge Before Speaking or Action
2007-07-14 19:04:00 Its interesting when an issue that I find troubling, especially as a personal issue or something that I find challenging in life, are addressed in literature, talks or lectures that I come across in passing. This recently happened when I was watching an interview with Hamza Yusuf, arguably the most notable Islam ic Scholar in America, ... More About: Video , Books , Action , United Kingdom
Why Facebook, Why Now?
2007-07-14 16:46:00 John Betelle set off the quintessential question, for the month, which is a question - at least the way he frames it - that usually refers to some point in our fragile lives that has come to an uncertain and perhaps perilous juncture. Or to an equally destabilizing awakening, that perhaps many converts feel right ... More About: Business , Technology , Opinions , Facebook
The Carnival of Islam in the West (11)
2007-07-14 04:18:00 Hello everyone, this is the eleventh edition of the Carnival of Islam in the West . Honestly, I didn’t expect it to last this long. I thought it would have lost support long ago, especially after getting a few criticisms early on. Although the criticism I received were not of consequence they did hold fast in ... More About: Slam , The Car
Firefox Add-ons: Pray Times!
2007-07-12 20:14:00 I know that there are a lot of adhan (Islam ic call to prayer) devices out there and many Muslims use the Windows application Athan by IslamicFinder. But I recently installed Ubuntu ME, the Muslim edition of Ubuntu, a popular Linux OS distribution and it works well with one exception, I can’t seem to to get ... More About: Technology , Firefox , Times , Pray
The Carnival of Islam in the West
2007-07-12 18:45:00 The deadline is tomorrow, please hurry and submit your articles today, Click here for further details. More About: Islam , Carnival , West , Slam , The Car
Native Deen: Small Deeds
2007-07-12 05:57:00 My son asked me to post this, so this is from Sahaj ibn Abdul-Hakim, my eldest son. as-salaamu ‘alaikum, More About: Video , Islam , Small , Native , Deeds
New Wave of Anti-Semitism in Britain
2007-07-11 23:25:00 Yusuf Smith, of Indigo Jo Blogs, reports that a new wave of antisemitism is on the rise, “Yesterday evening, the well-known talk-show host and newspaper columnist Richard Littlejohn presented an hour-long documentary, as part of Channel 4’s Dispatches feature, entitled “The War On British Jews?”, purporting to demonstrate that “in Britain 2007, it’s open season on ... More About: Video , Society , Stories , United Kingdom
Making A Modern Muslim World
2007-07-10 20:50:00 What is the present status of Islam ic Government? And why is the legitimacy of Islam as a state religion such a controversial matter for all of the world to presently debate? It would seem that state sponsored religion is an archaic construct which has been for the most part abandoned by modern government. But in ... More About: Politics , Civilization , World , Muslim
The Creed of Imam Al-Tahawi
2007-07-10 19:13:00 The Zaytuna Institute formerly of Hayward, CA has developed a class of publications called the Curriculum Series. This genre is a much needed gathering, translation and exposition of the classic works of the traditional Islam ic scholars. The first of this series is Shaykh Hamza Yusuf ’s translation and exegisis of Imam Al-Tahawi’s al-Aqidah al-Tahawiyya (The Creed ... More About: Books , Book Reviews
The PBS, ABG Films and Yerushalmi Affair
2007-07-09 23:15:00 On June 27, an article was syndicated throughout the conservative news and media machine from author and lawyer David Yerushalmi. This article was concerning a pro bono case the lawyer took on for a trio (Frank Gaffney, Martyn Burke and Alex Alexiev) known as ABG Films . ABG Films received funding from Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to produce a film that attempted to prove that the moderate Muslim voice is marginalized in the Islamic communities as suggested in Yerushalmi’s June article saying, “So it was that in March 2004 these three men joined forces to enter a competition to write, direct and produce a documentary for PBS on the inability of “moderate Muslims” to be heard in or out of their own communities because the Jihadists either murder them, threaten to do so, or join forces with the PC Elite to silence them as “too westernized” to be real Muslims.” This film was called, Islam vs. Islamists, which incidentally mak... More About: Affair
Yusuf Smith Questioned By Police
2007-07-09 21:07:00 Now that I’ve grabbed your attention I’ll let our brother Yusuf of the Indigo Jo Blog tell his story. More About: Police , Smith , Poli
Vacancies At DHS Said To Hurt U.S.
2007-07-09 19:14:00 In a recent congressional report, it was reported that, “The Bush administration has failed to fill roughly a quarter of the top leadership posts at the Department of Homeland Security, creating a “gaping hole” in the nation’s preparedness for a terrorist attack or other threat, according to a congressional report to be released today.” Is this a legitimate analysis of the Bush Administration’s failures or merely another reason to ramp the American people up with fear-tactics? There has been such a mix of truth and falsehood that it is, in all truthfulness, hard to tell where we are. In the report it is noted that this Federal Agency had 138 vacancies among its 575 top positions with a concentration of these deficits in the areas of policy and legal intelligence agencies as well as FEMA and the Coast Guard. DHS spokesman refuted the report according to the Washington Post, ‘…it is skewed by a sudden expansion this spring in the number... More About: Hurt , Said
Support the Carnival
2007-07-09 18:01:00 During the Spring of 2007, I scaled-down my internet activity, but now I’m back trying to come up with more interesting topics for readers all across the religious, socio-economic and political spectrum. However, in my absence the Carnival of Islam in the West lived on, with the help of a few friends and good people. This month however, there has been a bit of disappointment. Our latest edition which was going to be hosted by Amad of Musings of a Muslim Mind but he has since retired this blog so instead I will host July’s Carnival of Islam in the West. In the past people have liked the little annotations I make on their submissions, for examples see [1] and [2], so I will try to give another shot. Lastly, if you would like to submit an article you may do so by clicking here. With that said, I’m off to contemplate more interesting subjects to post on, so take care and I will see you at the carnival, insha’allah. More About: Support , The Car
Gaining Weight After Marriage
2007-07-06 22:51:00 I was walking down the hall at work today and I saw the janitor for our floor - we are on the 1st floor of the hospital, near the executive suite - the janitor, a very nice middle-aged man, asks me if I have been working out. Immediately, when he said this I knew what ... More About: Family , Parenting , Marriage , Weight , Appearance
Muslim Highschool Students in NYC
2007-07-03 23:46:00 Haseeb of HAmed.com mentions a survey spearheaded by Columbia University: “This Muslim Youth Study is a long-term project headed by Professor Louis Cristillo of Columbia University. I know the Research Coordinator, Muntasir Sattar, and highly recommend all high school students (let ur relatives and friends know) to take part in this study. For 45 minutes of ... More About: Projects , Communication , Students
Muslim Rep. Votes Cheney Out
2007-06-29 21:33:00 Keith Ellison, the Minnesota congressman and only Muslim in the House of Representative, has allegedly cosigned House Resolution 333, a resolution calling for the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney . This was reported on impeachforpeace.org saying, “Members of ImpeachforPeace had met with Rep. Ellison in April at which time he had said that “Impeachment Should Be ... More About: News , Politics , Slim
Islamic Roundup Featuring Lupe Fiasco
More articles from this author:2007-06-28 20:52:00 On June 24, 2007 - last Sunday - the Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) had its, Takin it to the Streets, concert and gathering. In this event there were a number of famous faces of the Music industry and traditional Islam ic scholars as well as everything else in between. It was truly a cornucopia of ... More About: News , Islamic , Culture , Stories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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