Islamophobia in Fiction

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Mar 16, 2022

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Mar 16, 2022

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Four Reasons Muslims Shouldn't Celebrate New Year's | Dr.Muhammad Wajid Akhter: Every year, a large number of Muslims get into the festive spirit and celebrate New Year’s day, but is this a harmless cultural practice with no faith based significance, or a step in the wrong direction? by MuslimMatters
7 min listen
Mistakes Women Make During Hajj and Umrah | Asma Bint Shameem: Getting ready for Umrah or Hajj this year? Here are nine common mistakes that women make and how you and your loved ones can avoid them. by MuslimMatters
12 min listen
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf And The Question of Rebellion In The Islamic Tradition | Dr. Usaama Al-Azami: In this Editor's Choice for Top Ten Articles of 2019, Dr Azami of University of Oxford argues against Shaykh Hamza’s contention that the Islamic tradition has uniformly called for the rendering obedience to tyrannical rule. by MuslimMatters
18 min listen
What Kind of Man will Marry your Daughter? | Siraaj Muhammad: Have you ever tried watching an old sitcom years later and found yourself identifying more with the parents and less with the teens? I find myself in this position now as a father of two daughters. I went from identifying with the guy trying to get the girl while moving past the crazy dad to being the responsible father who protects his girls from men who want to take advantage of them. by MuslimMatters
7 min listen
Editor's Choice: Top Ten Articles of 2019: MuslimMatters is grateful to Allah for our readers and our writers for collaborating to build the Muslim Internet’s most widely read online magazine. It is an honor to publish every article that goes up on the site. Here are the editor’s choices from the top most read articles of 2019. by MuslimMatters
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Muslim Approaches to the Abortion Debate | Shaykh Salman Younas: This comprehensive assessment of the abortion debate is a powerhouse of academic proportions, and one of the Editor's Choice for Top Ten Articles of 2019. by MuslimMatters
51 min listen
We are All Slaves of Allah | Hakeemah Cummings: Once, while in class at college, an Arab girl I was sitting next to said quite loudly to another, “Hey, give this paper to the ‘abdah” referring to a black girl in the class. I wondered if she was even aware of what she was saying in English. Did she think that ‘abdah translates to “black girl” and never thought of its true meaning? Did she think that I didn’t understand? by MuslimMatters
8 min listen
Trailer: Announcing the launch of the new MuslimMatters podcast! by MuslimMatters
1 min listen
Khutba- The Attitude of Gratitude | Shaykh Abdullah Oduro: Did you ever notice that your pocket is over your heart, and that's where you put your money? Put your money where your heart is, because charity is gratitude in action. by MuslimMatters
25 min listen
Revisiting Women Only Tarawih | Ustadha Umm Sarah: I still remember the first time I heard of a women-only Tarawih congregation. I was about 10 years old and my father had told me that Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (1914–1999), a prominent Indian Hanafi scholar of the past century, had written a book about his mother (d. 1968) who was a hafidha (memorizer of the Quran) and had mentioned she would lead women in Tarawih. Shaykh Nadwi had written: “What a beautiful era it was when they (his mother and aunts) all would recite one juz each in Tarawih. They would follow the fatwa of some scholars and have their own congregation in which there would be a woman Imam and women followers. Their Tarawih congregation would go on from after Isha till almost Suhoor time. All of them would recite Qur’an very beautifully with impeccable pronunciation. If it’s not disrespectful I would say that they recited better and more accurately than many of today’s scholars. Their heartfelt passion and natur by MuslimMatters
25 min listen
Khutbah: Omar Suleiman - Social Media, Spirituality, Online Drama, & Onsite Realities: Khutbah delivered by Imam Omar Suleiman on social media by MuslimMatters
29 min listen
Ramadan is When it All Began | Shaykh Ahsan Hanif: Not only did Islam begin in this month, it began with a single commandment. It was not a commandment to pray, give charity of even fast in Ramadan; all of these would come much later. Rather, it was a command to learn and seek knowledge, to read. by MuslimMatters
7 min listen
Is Your Shroud in the Marketplace? | Hena Zuberi: “O Friend, the cloth from which your burial shroud will be cut may have already reached the market and you remain unaware.”Abu Hamid al-Ghazali’s words ran through my mind, as I left the funeral home and drove to the halal meat shop today. I was going to buy my shroud. by MuslimMatters
7 min listen
New Year's Resolutions: Seven Powerful Ways to Keep Them | Siraaj Muhammad: Studies show the most common New Year’s resolutions revolve around finances and health. Unfortunately, they also show only a relatively small number will keep most or all of them. The rest will mostly fail within the first few weeks. Here are 7 powerful techniques to make sure you’re not one of them. by MuslimMatters
13 min listen
Suicide: What Muslims Ought to Know | Saba Malik: When a Muslim commits suicide and they are insane and have lost touch with reality, different conditions apply to them. On the other hand, when a believer commits suicide while fully understanding their actions and the ensuing results, they are in a different category. by MuslimMatters
11 min listen
Priorities and Protest | On Muslim Activism with Shaykhs Dawud Walid and Omar Suleiman: Islam teaches us to stand up for justice, to enjoin good and forbid evil, and to help our brother whether he’s the oppressor or the oppressed, but how? To help us fully understand the answer to this question, Muslimmatters has the honor of speaking to not one, but two subject matter experts on Muslim activism Dr. Omar Suleiman and Shaykh Dawud Walid are both scholars, authors, and Imams internationally known for their work in civil rights and social justice. by MuslimMatters
74 min listen
How Intimate Can a Couple Be, Post-Nikkah but Pre-Rukhsati | Shaykh Yaser Birjas: After the nikkah is it permissible to do all the acts that are permissible between a husband and wife, even if the rukhsati hasn’t been done? by MuslimMatters
6 min listen
Khutba: Proof of Love | Abdelrahman Murphy: Ustadh AbdelRahman Murphy delivered this beautiful pre-Ramadan Khutba at the Institute of Knowledge, an Islamic institute of higher learning located in Diamond Bar, California. by MuslimMatters
27 min listen
The Unfinished Business of Martin Luther King | Imam Zaid Shakir: Our Muslim community is one whose existence, contrary to popular misconception, is predicated on the establishment of peace. I believe that we have been divinely prepared to take up the torch held aloft so courageously by Dr. King and dedicate ourselves to the completion of his work. - Imam Zaid Shakir by MuslimMatters
10 min listen
When Faith Hurts | Zeba Khan: We have to admit that we can be happy with Allah and still find ourselves devastated by the tests He puts before us, because faith is not a protection from struggle. by MuslimMatters
23 min listen
Like Tinder, But Safer: Troubleshooting Arranged Muslim Marriage | Newaz Ahmed: The biodatas that we send and receive are inherently superficial. We’re not given much time to make a decision on that limited information, and so the result is the same sort of superficiality, an un-Islamic swipe based on attractiveness alone. by MuslimMatters
19 min listen
Ramadan Reset | Shaykh Aleaddin Elbakri: As Ramadan ends, it is time to begin the rest of the year. Even if your Ramadan hasn't been great so far, you can still make it good. As long as you're breathing, the door of repentance is open. by MuslimMatters
28 min listen
The Coolest Thing: Fousia Abdullah and Quarantined Best Life: For listeners in the distant future, once upon a time the world was in full pandemic mode, with people social distancing and self isolating, and in this time of social disconnection, we need to reach out and establish relationships, quality conversations, and learn from each other so we don’t all go mad, yes? Yes. Welcome to this is inaugural episode "The Coolest Thing," and who better to interview than Fousia Abdullah, the host of the Naptime is Sacred Podcast, which is really a very cool thing. by MuslimMatters
26 min listen
What Fasting Demands From Us | Mufti Taqi Uthmani: An English translation of “Rozah Humsay Kia Muṭālbah Karta Hai” by Shaykh al-Islam Mufti Muhammad Taqī ‘Uthmāni. This insightful piece invites the reader to consider not only Ramadan's true purpose, but their own in Ramadan, as well as in this life. by MuslimMatters
32 min listen
Muhammad Ali: Superhuman and Super Human | Amaar Abdul-Nasir: In a sport that is built on hyperbole and over-exaggeration by fight promoters who mimic carnival barkers, no one has dared compare any boxer to Muhammad Ali. by MuslimMatters
7 min listen
How Intimate Can a Couple be Post-Nikkah but Pre-Marriage? | Yaser Birjas: Question: I just had my nikkah done with my husband and we are having our rukhsati done soon (in the next few months). The reason for the delay is just mainly to prepare for the wedding and accommodate family members’ schedules the wedding. After the nikkah is it permissible to do all the acts that are permissible between a husband and wife even if the rukhsati hasn’t been done? Sincerely, Getting married in my 20s by MuslimMatters
6 min listen
When Racism Goes Viral: Coronavirus and Modern Muslim Orientialism | Zeba Khan: Online, in Muslim as well as non-Muslim spaces, social media feeds are sniggering “Eww, you eat gross things! Of course you’ll get gross diseases!” In the midst of this human tragedy, orientalist tropes about the Chinese are being sloppily repackaged as health concerns over the coronavirus, and served with a side of bat soup. by MuslimMatters
22 min listen
Get Over It: 21 Ways to Say Goodbye to that Haram Relationship and Move on With Your Life | Ehab Hassan: So you finally came to your senses. That girl or guy you’ve been talking to is not the best thing that’s ever happened to you, and definitely not helping you advance or get closer to Allah. You know it’s wrong, you want to get over it, you want to move on, but it’s just so hard and no one understands you! InshaAllah, it’s all going to be alright. by MuslimMatters
13 min listen
ImamConnect | Muddasar Ahmed and Omar Usman: We interview Muddasar Ahmed about the innovative Imam Connect project. by MuslimMatters
26 min listen
5 Historic Events that Rocked the World in Ramadan | Dr. Muhammad Wajid Akhter: We all know that Ramadan is the month of fasting, abstinence and reflection. Ramadan also just happens to be a month of awesome history defining events that shaped the world we live in today. by MuslimMatters
9 min listen

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