PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 05: How Good are our Mosques Really? A recent Pew Report indicates that about one-quarter of people who grow up Muslim in the United States end up leaving the faith. (I...
Read more PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 04: Relying on our own actions, or Relying on God? Do we rely on our own actions, or do we rely on God? What is the difference between the two? Have you ever found...
Read more PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 03: Removing Harm Sometimes we are stuck on quantifying our faith and assuming that more is better. This mindset omits the basic fact that Islam is meant to make its...
Read more PODCAST Making sense of islam with tarek Elgawhary Listen Today on Episode 02: Three Rules to Understand Islam Here I share three rules I learned to help me filter the type of information I receive in the name of Islam. These are very useful to...
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In The Clock of the Long Now, Stewart Brand argues that religion is one of the most durable institutions of civilization that helps ground us all in timeless values. In his concept of the forces of innovation (rapidly changing) and durability...
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This is a short, convenient list of devotional acts for the occasion of ‘Ashura, the 10th day of the month of Muḥarram: 1. Fast the ninth and tenth of Muḥarram.1 2. Expand on yourself and your family by way of making some extra food, buying small...
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Since I first confronted the subject of violence and extremism as a research topic about two years ago, I noticed that there was no coherent framework dealing with extremism arising from within the “family of Islam.” It has been difficult to wrap...
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Celebrating the birth of our beloved Prophet ﷺ has been a custom of Muslim communities ever since the time of the Companions. To celebrate and commemorate his birth is to ultimately show thanks and gratitude to God for sending him ﷺ to us as a...
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Ṣafar is the second month of the Islamic lunar calendar. There is a weak hadith narrated by Ibn ‘Abbās that states, “On the last Wednesday of the month [of Ṣafar] there is a continual calamity.”
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One of the most important things I learned throughout my studies is that religion as a concept and discipline is much greater and more expansive than what practitioners make it out to be. This is certainly true for Islam and Muslims.
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Aenean lacinia bibendum nulla sed consectetur.
Read more Dostoyevsky once asked an interesting question, how would the Catholic Church act if Christ appeared right now? His answer was not pleasing to many! However, this is a great question for us to ask as a means of reflecting on how we would...
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