Rama-Done – You’re Better At This Than You Think You Are
By Aziz Poonawalla This is Day 28 of Altmuslim’s #30Days30Writers series for Ramadan 2015. In just a few days, it’s over. We get to eat lunch again, we have the energy to tackle the “to-do” lists that...
View ArticleSupporting Ourselves and Each Other – A Spiritual Response to These Times
By Afeefa Syeed “I just don’t even know how to feel; I’m either numb in my mind or hurting in my heart.” Over the past decade and half, American Muslims have seen aspects of this complicated identity...
View ArticleBeyond Prayer: Ten Tips to Achieving Mental Health and Wellness
By Saud Inam May is Mental Health Month. We many not think about mental health and wellness goals as part of our physical, emotional and spiritual well-being, but we should. If you are a person of...
View ArticleA State of Fasting, A Lowering of Our Nafs
This is Day 25 of the #30Days30Writers 2016 Ramadan series. By Kabir Helminski Ramadan has so many dimensions: purification, sacrifice, community, the still and subtle emptiness of the heart. It...
View ArticleOn Black Suffering and the Legacy of Liberating Black Spirituality
Insisting on silent suffering as a requisite for salvation, on supplication as a substitute for struggle and demanding deference to dogma or to Muhammadan descendants, whose silence is indicative of...
View ArticleTurning Inward vs. Social Commitments – Finding the Balance in Ramadan
Are we supposed to cut ourselves off from others and retreat in our homes for the whole month in order to reach some heightened level of spiritual enlightenment? Is “socializing” during Ramadan a...
View ArticleHow Can I Help You Understand What Ramadan Really Is?
How can I make others understand what the heck is going on in our mosques with hundreds of cars being parked and traffic problems galore? How can I make the people around me realize that Ramadan has...
View ArticleHow Do We Make Islam Relevant and Meaningful to Our Youth?
Young people in our highly individualized times need faith to be meaningful, relevant and fulfilling. They need us to parent them according to where they are and who they are, not according to who we...
View ArticleFive Stages of Spiritual Growth – Where Are You?
In stage five you will realize that you can only move forward by moving backward. But, this time you will not do it out of love or fear of heaven or hell but out of true love for God.
View ArticleMake Ramadan be About the Quran and Generosity of Spirit
The generosity (jūd) of the Prophet ﷺ was not a monetary one, but a spiritual one, by means of the study and recitation of the Quran. The interaction with Jibril every night in Ramadan allowed the...
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