By Nour Habib Difficult as it is to believe, we actually give advice like this to our 5- and 6- year-old children as we send them off to school. It obviously speaks to the concern parents harbor that their children get the best out of life and don’t get taken advantage of. But something rings wrong [...]

Splitting of the Moon. Death of the Prophet Muhammad, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. A form of death which will kill thousands of Muslims. (Understood to refer to the plague of Amwas during the caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab.) A major fighting in Madinah (understood to refer to the battle of al-Harrah [...]

Comes the hajj season, and I am reminded of the wonders of aab-i-Zumzum. Let me go back to how it all started. In 1971, an Egyptian doctor wrote to the European Press, a letter saying that aab-i-Zumzum was not fit for drinking purposes. I immediately thought that this was just a form of prejudice against the [...]