Tag Archives: KORAN

From Facebook to God’s Book MARYAM AMIR-EBRAHIMI

Many of us have an addictive relationship with Facebook. We check our accounts compulsively, multiple times a day. It is sometimes the last thing many of us do before we sleep and the first thing we do when we wake up; time flies when we’re on it, and it is obsessive. Yet how many of us have an addictive relationship—have any relationship—with …

Read More »

Give Good Tidings to the Patient By MUHAMMAD HAQ (HAQ)

It is one of those unavoidable facts of life: sometimes we find ourselves in situations we don’t want to be in. Often, we have to do things or resist doing other things. The Qur’ān and Ḥadīth mention such occurrences, and also elaborate on our response to them. Thus the following verse: “And We will surely test you with something of …

Read More »