Abu Hudhayfah Edwards

The little lavender backpack rested beside the front door, packed neatly with crayons, pencils, a notebook, and a lunchbox decorated with butterflies. Five-year-old Asiya had spent the past week putting it on, taking it off, and asking the same question over and over.

SUMMARY: What we can learn about guidance, gratitude and dawah from the story of a Mexican convert who preached Islam through action after accepting the faith.

Every Muslim has a story about how Allah guided them.

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.

Maryam adjusted her phone for the third time.

Tilt. Pause. Step back.

“No… the lighting is off.”