“Should poverty, illness and death not exist, man would not bow to anything.” Imam Hussein (as) “Be like the flower that gives off its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it.” Imam Ali…
I enter the cemetery and follow the all too familiar winding paths. Overhead the jets taking off and landing at Hobby airport assault my ears with the roaring of their turbine engines. The anterior graves…
The Holy Personages of the Virgin Mary and Jesus the Messiah are highly revered in Islam, so much so that a heart devoid of belief of them, invalidates the faith of a Muslim. The Holy…
Introduction Rabia al-Adawiyya I first discovered when I was very young. From the moment I read about her, I was instantly enamoured with an admiration that has never faded. She is among the earliest of…
Village in Arabia, circa 7th Century In the training yard, a middle-aged man and a teenage boy circled and lunged at one another, the air cracking as their weapons clashed. “I yield!” cried the boy, as…
by Avellina Balestri (For my Muslim friends, whose ancestry lies across the Islamic East, particularly Adil Mulk, and in solidarity with the struggles of the Palestinian people.)People of the East,Carved of earth and sand,Cut by river…
It was a simple clay building, with little pomp or decoration. A single girl dwelled within, and the locals called her Blessed Maryam for her piety. Now, at the dawning of the day, she held…
When a party of Christians visited Prophet Muhammad (saw), in Madinah, he invited them, while they stayed, to sleep and say their prayers in the masjid. Sometime before, he had come to Madinah with the…
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