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Tonight was a great night! Alhamdulillah! My mom put together a little close family-friend (and along with about 4 close friends - sorry for all those my mom didnt invite - she had to keep the list small) graduation party for me earlier tonight. I am especially grateful for all those who came through tonight, […]

Pakistan clerics explain ‘jihad’
I came across this article in a friend’s blog, and i really like it. Subhanallah, its about damn time, we muslims start educating ourselves in our deen, particularly conventionally controversial topics, and nothing is more controversial today than the issue of Jihad…
Its so sad taht some of the MOST fundamental aspects […]

Another update thus far on my teams’ seasons. My Mets are tearing it up!!! 7-3 since the All-Star Break, the Mets have been playing great ball. Funadamentally sound both behind the plate, and pitching, next year most certainly is now. With Wright batting 5th, and Piazza demoted down to the 6th spot, he has […]

aiite, i got my new laptop yesterday. Yes another Dell. This is like my family’s 6th dell over the past, i dunno, 12 years?
Also, the wireless router all hooked up too. All of this technology is spoiling us soo much. First came computers, then AOL/the internet, then high speed internet, now wireless high speed […]

Well a couple of days ago more attacks were attempted in London, this time, Alhamdulillah, this time no1 was killed. Yesterday, on the Daily Show, Newsweek Columnist, Fareed Zakaria was on to discuss the recent attacks, and he analyzed the situation well. This breed of Islamic terrorism is like a virus and has spread throughout […]

Considering this is pretty much the last free summer I will probably ever have, Im surprised at how busy I have been during this break. Less than one month till school… I have mixed feelings about it, as a part of me is very anxious and cant wait for it to begin, yet another part […]

Recent news has uncovered the names of four of the men directly responsible for the London Attacks last week. Three of the four: Hasib Hussain, 18, Shehzad Tanweer, 22, and Mohammad Sidique Khan, 30, were all young men of Pakistani decent.
Now on a person note, this really sucks, for me since I am a 22 […]

The following are some notes from Dr. Jeffrey Lang and Sister Aminah Assilimi’s talk on dealing with new converts to Islam from the ICNA conference earlier this month. Dr. Lang and Sister Assilimi are two white American converts to Islam.
Dr. Lang is a mathematics professor and an author Struggling to Surrender, Even Angels Ask, […]

The following is from another talk from this past weekend’s conference by Imam Dawud Yasin.

Defining Illness
English:
an unhealthy condition of body or mind
Arabic:
(مرض) i. Anything defective that removes a person from a sound state of being
ii hypocrisy
(مرض) Illness is mentioned 24 times in the Quran.
13 times in terms of spiritual […]

This past Saturady I had the opportunity to attend the Body and Soul Program featuring Sidi Hakim Archuletta at Columbia University. Although I had to leave early to catch a wedding later that night, I was able to listen to 3-4 talks including an introduction of Hikma by Sidi Hakim. The following are some of […]

Today was the first game of the Muslim Softball League. Alhamdulillah, this league looks great. We have six competitive teams playing out in LI. My team played 2 games today, we won the first 21-3, and lost the second game in the bottom of the 7th 8-7. More importantly, our team played well, and […]

Yesterday, according to the BBC, four explosions in London killed 50 people and injured over 700. The explosions were coordinated including three subway attacks and another on a public bus. The headlines across cable news channels and covers of newspapers around the world all proclaimed that this was an Al-Qaeda style attack.
I am praying that […]

A recent, yet to be published article from the Journal of Medical Ethics by Dr. Sahin Aksoy discusses the ethics of stem cell research in Islam in particular. It cites primary Islamic sources (from the quran and sunnah) in his attempt to show why in fact cell stem research is permissable in […]

Today was the first time I returned to Stony Brook since graduation. I really miss that place! It was my home, and the source of so knowledge (dunya and deen-related), and just as importantly, where i made so many dear friends I hope to always remain close with. Although I went initially because i had […]

This is the first of a series of posts I will write consisting of notes I took from the ICNA conference this past weekend. These notes will be on the Friday Night Youth Session (Brothers only) talk Saturday.

The talk was primarily about the evils of sex, drugs/smoking, and harmful music. These three actions are […]