It was around 9.00 pm in the evening when my son called to ask me if he could bring home a friend from the masjid to spend the night by us. He told me his parents actually lock him out of his home fairly frequently because he only got B’s and C’s at school. Usually,…

Tauhid, the Oneness of the Creator, is undoubtedly the underpinning of Islam. Expressed in a simple but profound statement known as the Shahada, or Testimony of Faith, its essence is emancipation from servitude to men to the worship of God alone. The testimony begins with a negation of all false gods and affirms that the…

It was Abraham Lincoln who declared, “You can’t escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Human impact on the environment is a woeful tale, and the onus is on today’s societies to minimize environmental degradation and build a sustainable future. The impetus to protect the environment from man’s destructive tendencies comes not only…

Let us start by having a common but useful understanding of Health. This is important because the word health can have different interpretations. In this article, Health is defined as, in accordance with the World Health Organization, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease and infirmity”.…