The Islamic tradition emphasizes cleanliness, and one of the ways Muslims stay clean throughout the day is by performing wudu, or ritual washing. Wudu, or ablution, is necessary for Islamic practices like prayer, touching the Quran, and performing tawaf around the Kaaba.

There are forests that seem quiet.

You walk through them and hear only the wind brushing against leaves, the soft crack of twigs beneath your feet, and perhaps the distant call of a bird. Everything appears still, separate, and independent.

We are deeply saddened by the state of our nation. Yesterday, the most powerful man of the most powerful nation in the world, our President Donald Trump, used profanity while mocking our faith and writing, in the same vulgar post, "praise be to Allah."

Easter is celebrated in the springtime in Christian majority countries.  Muslim students in public and government run schools are often bombarded with the images of the holiday – rabbits, eggs and chocolate treats.  Through the example of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) Muslims are taught to respe

In recent months, Muslims in the United States have felt a familiar tension resurfacing around them. Public discourse has grown more divisive, and global conflicts involving Muslim-majority regions have once again shaped how we are perceived at home.

Adolescent Muslimah maturing into womanhood must value their position in Islamic society.  One of the most distinguishing features of the Muslim is the hayaa – the modesty, the shyness.  For an adolescent Muslimah this shyness must be navigated with care.  Hayaa is an outward count

I was going to write a poem instead.  I want to explain myself as a girl trying to improve herself as a Muslim by starting to wear a hijab.  It’s so funny how hijab seems to be the thing that proves you are Muslim even more than saying your prayers and stuff like that.  But then so