Have you ever contemplated the words of the Messenger (sal Allahu ‘Alayhi wa sallam) when he said, “Make things easy for the people and do not make them difficult”?
How exactly do you make things easy for people besides just giving them the easier option if it is allowable? You simply make them enjoy it […]

So for the past week I had an old college friend over for a visit after some 8-9 years. It was a great reunion. Last time we saw each other was when we were both college students, contemplating marriage LOL. Anyways, here we were now each of us with 2 kids, struggling […]

I recalled an incident when I was in 3rd Grade which helped me understand why we must listen to what our kids are trying to tell us more often.
My father had just gotten a new job after a long time, and so obviously, we were not in a very good financial state for a long […]

One of my students, a doctor who works in the ICU, close to my age, sat next to me during a waleemah I attended this past weekend and she said, “My parents would love to have a daughter like you!” I replied, “My parents would love to have a daughter like you.”
A major problem I […]

Just before the start of the Battle of Badr, when the Prophet (sal Allahu `alayhi wa sallam) was straightening the lines for battle, he would use his arrow, poking the stomachs of those who were out of line. One person, Sawaad, got nudged with the Prophet’s arrow and said, “O Rasoolullaah! You’ve hurt me! And […]