Dr. Abdullah's Blog

Unity is what Muslims generally talk about. Unity is what Muslims say, the community lacks and unity is the desired objective, Muslim...

Our understanding of Islam largely comes from scholars. Not many of us make an individual efforts to go directly to the Quran or the...

Itikaf means withholding oneself from the regular exercise of freedom of action in the disposal, or management, of affairs. When a...

A divided Supreme court on partisan lines upheld Muslim travel ban by a margin of 5 to 4. No different than the 1944 Supreme Court...

The Quran mentions the word slavery in at least twenty-nine of its verse. Most of these are Medinan and refer to the status of slaves....

The question was direct. "Do you know anyone who can perform Halala (a pagan practice that forces a divorced woman to sleep with another...

Karbala, a town 100 miles away from Baghdad in modern day Iraq is the killing fields where the grandson of the Prophet and his family was...

Medina was still a city with the non-Muslim majority. The total number of Muslims in Medina 1438 years ago was not more than 75. Yet, at...

Shaikh Bin Baz, a noted Islamic scholar, justified the practice of forbidding Muslim women from visiting graves or accompanying the...

Many reports suggest that during the early period of the Prophet's mission in Makkah, Muslims fasted on Muharram 10th; they started...

From the midst of the modern civilization is emerging yet another set of ideas that would probably exhaust all possible means to...

Recently I wrote an article on the psychology of rapists and murderers during Hindu-Muslim riots in India. I held the hateful philosophy...

"The usage of the word Allah is not an integral part of the faith in Christianity. The usage of the word will cause confusion in the...

There was a time when people would spend months and months preparing themselves financially and spiritually to live the real meaning of...

Is Islam really the priority of Muslims? Is Muslim leadership really concerned about justice? And does the Muslim world really care for...

Maulana Muhammad Muslim Saheb was one of the founders of Majlis-e-Mushawarat (India's apex consultative body of Muslims). He was a Jamaat...

Imagine if Muslim Americans, yes Muslim Americans only, decide to do the following, how much change can be introduced in the world. Yes,...

The debate about the events some 1400 years ago that resulted in the martyrdom of Imam Hussain is still on in Muslim leadership circles...

Islamophobes in the US are well known through their regular columns, speeches, and talk shows. They include people from all races and...

Every time an act of terror is attributed to a Muslim, the debate about Islam, Muslim history, culture and relationship with the West or...