BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Oct 01, 2018 at 10:38 pm
I appreciate the spirited discourse around the previous post that has been removed as well as the constructive criticism, and I understand the anger motivating many of you. I appreciate the advice from the educated and that of the laity -our religion after all is predicated on sincere advice. I…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Aug 15, 2018 at 8:47 pm
Yesterday, August 14, 2018, marked the passing of five years since the massacre of at least a thousand innocent protesters and the injuring of thousands more in Cairo’s Rabaa Square. Merely writing these words will generate charges of siding with the ousted Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi, and the Egyptian Muslim…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Jul 26, 2018 at 7:48 am
We asked American Muslims to name the most influential people in their fields. Here’s what they said: Who speaks for American Muslims? The short answer is, no one. No individual or group can claim to speak for this country’s nearly 3.5 million Muslims, a diverse and…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Jul 26, 2018 at 7:35 am
The blessed man he asks himself, “Who am I meant to be?” The people come they praise his words, But him they cannot see. Am I for real? Am I a fraud? Am I the one they see? The blessed man he just stands tall
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Jul 09, 2018 at 8:21 am
How many highways have we trod, In our unceasing journey unto God? The signs we pass are loud and clear, The path is steep the goal is dear. Onward we go by night and day This path we walk the only way. Some will give up their…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Jun 24, 2018 at 9:16 am
Madeline Albright, infamously and casually agreed that over 500,000 dead Iraqi children who died during the six years US sanctions had been in place in Iraq to that point, “was worth it”. As the crisis over children being torn from their mothers’ arms at the…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Jun 23, 2018 at 4:23 pm
The human being began his journey as a physical creature with the direct, unmitigated creative act of God.” “Once the human has been animated by the spirit, he can undertake his primary purpose: namely, to worship and to know his Lord.” Today, we can…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Jun 04, 2018 at 12:35 am
It is time we started listening to Ali. It is God’s plan. The analytical methods which postmodernism has given birth to are qualified by many sad features. One is the rejection of the idea of greatness. These methods leave no space for great men or women. What we find instead…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Apr 22, 2018 at 12:52 am
In the literature discussing Futuwwa, which has been translated as Muslim chivalry, there is the story of a young man who was engaged to marry a particularly beautiful woman. Before the wedding day, his fiancée was afflicted with a severe case of chicken pox which left her face terribly disfigured.…
BY IMAM ZAID SHAKIR
Apr 04, 2018 at 5:27 pm
Now that “Punish A Muslim Day” has passed uneventfully we should really take stock of the general immaturity permeating our community. This nonsense should never have seen the light of day. It is like the so-called movie denigrating the Prophet (peace and blessings upon him) several years back. It had…
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