While the role of parents and the family is unmistakably the first in helping Muslim youth keep their Islam and practice it throughout their lives, Imams and community leaders play a role as well, we will look into example of Shabir Ally's life.
Parents' love and acceptance are crucial during the teens, when most youth, Muslim and non-Muslim, are struggling. How did some parents do it? How do we raise righteouse children?
In our time, and our part of the world, if nothing is strange and nothing immoral, I guess it's only good then, if we feel connected to the strange. 'Good tidings for the strangers.'
Dr. Irving was once a fixture at Muslim conventions. This author, professor and translator of the first American English translation of the Quran who accepted Islam over 50 years ago, passed away in 2002, very lonely.
The dawn of the 21st Century was supposed to have been a time of great and noble happenings. But much ballyhooed 2000 turned out to be a year with few heroes or heroic acts. On the bright side, at least the world didn't end.
This is a review, from a Muslim perspective, of the year 2000 in movies. If focuses on films that have either Muslim themes or major Muslim characters in them, particularly if they were protrayed in a positive manner.
Behind every front page news story and sound byte is the person who is the focus of the drama, the newsmaker. These are the people whose stories, achievements, failures and successes fascinate and enthrall audiences.