How Big is Your Light

You’re sitting comfortably in your room when all of a sudden, the electricity goes off. It becomes completely dark. Pitch BLACK. You can’t see a thing. Although it is your own house, life comes to an inconvenient, complete halt. That’s because you can’t see a thing! You dare not move, in the fear that you may knock something over or worse still, you may stumble and hurt yourself. Uncomfortable and unnerving, isn’t it?

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Do Not Wish For Death

Between her sobs, I heard her mumble “I wish I was dead!” “How bad could her situation be?” I thought to myself. It couldn’t be worse than the hardships our Prophet (saw) or his companions went through and yet they were forbidden to wish for death.

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A breath of Jahannum

Last week, it was extremely cold….cold beyond imagination. It was so cold, they said these were temperatures we haven’t seen in more than a decade. Pipes froze and burst, many people lost electricity and some even died. There was ice everywhere…ice on the cars, ice on the trees, ice on the on the grass. When the arctic wind blew, it cut through to the bone. It hit across the face and numbed whatever it touched. And as I felt the chilling effects of these below-freezing temperatures, I thought of Jahannum.

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Plucking Eyebrows: A topic we pretend does not exist

Today’s topic is about something we DON’T really want to talk about. It’s about…. PLUCKING EYEBROWS This is a topic we just want to avoid or hope it would just go away Although, not thinking about it does not mean that the Hukum (order) isn’t there. And you know what? It is sad to say that at least 90% of our sisters (if not more) are guilty of doing it. But dear Sister, have you really thought about it? What does Islam REALLY say about shaping the eyebrows?

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