America: Where No One Shall Make Us Afraid

04.23.2023 __As Ramadan was coming to a close this week I found myself thinking of people who have touched my Continue reading →

1444 Hijri: A Ramadan Letter to My Friends

03.19.2023 Ramadan begins this week. At sunset on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 – the month of Ramadan in the Islamic Continue reading →

Salman Rushdie: We Are Made Up of Bits and Fragments

08.21.2022 __I am ready to resume reading in public again.  Banned Books Week in America, promoted by the American Library Continue reading →

Let There Be None to Make Us Afraid

05.01.2022 __ This past week, as the final days of Ramadan approached, I chose not to devote energy (and perhaps Continue reading →

Ink Flows Most Freely in Pursuit of Truth

12.05.2021 __“Read in the name of thy Sustainer, who has created created man out of a germ-cell. Read – for Continue reading →

We Don’t Know What We Don’t Know

04.11.2021 ________________________________________ It was during the month of Ramadan, over 1400 years ago, that God began to reveal the Qur’an Continue reading →

That You Might Come To Know One Another

03.24.2019 _________________________________________ On March 15, as worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand were preparing to offer Friday Jumu’ah Continue reading →

We Ignore Ethnic Cleansing at Our Peril

09.24.2017 ________________________________________   On August 25, 2017, Rohingya rebels from the militant Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked Myanmar security forces, Continue reading →