SUMMARY: Islam teaches the believer that life's temporality makes it important to live consciously and worthily, in order to prepare for our ultimate account when we meet Allah.
SUMMARY: Parents can help their children start a Muslim Student Association at school, which provides a community hub, a platform for friendships, and religiously reinforcing activities to enhance students' values.
SUMMARY: The Tahajjud prayer in the late hours of the night is a particularly honorable form of worship and holds great blessings for Muslims, who can perform it both individually or as a family in order to sincerely call upon Allah.
SUMMARY: The career of an enslaved black Moroccan who carved a name for himself in the early Spanish incursions into the Americas challenges popular conceptions of early contact between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.