Melissa Barreto

Shaykh Omar Sulieman may be one of the most well-known household names when it comes to Islamic scholarship in the U.S. today.

Are you looking for a low-key Ramadan activity that requires little prep work and helps keep the kids engaged all month long? Try inviting the family to make a Good Deeds Jar. 

My mother didn’t like organized religion. She was raised a Catholic but as a young adult moved away from many things that were scripted by her religion and others. When I chose to convert to Islam, she struggled for a long time to understand my choice and support me in it.

Your children are bound to try and argue with you.

Trying to teach our children about cleanliness can feel like a never-ending battle sometimes. Struggles over bathing, nagging over left-out toys, and sore sights of messy rooms can become daily sources of tension for families.

I recently weaned my fifth child. Like all of her siblings before her, I breastfed her from birth until two years old, Alhamdulilah. Weaning her was an emotional time for me.

I’m an avid supporter of breastfeeding for those who choose it but I’ve never enjoyed the often polarized and unsolicited judgments that others offer up on the topic. Too often, breastfeeding gets presented as either love-it or hate-it relationship, a must-have or a mom-fail.