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I was with my friend having Iftar in Tokyo one Ramadan evening, and then came the time for Maghrib. We stood up, took some paper napkins from the table, and went out to the corridor to pray (using the

In this digital era, most of us hold smartphones, and we each have countless apps stored on them! Now, which application do you most frequently access when you are using your phone? For me, I always h

When I first converted to Islam, one of the main things that amazed me completely was the fact that five times every single day, Muslims face toward the direction of the Kaaba to pray. This unity is

I never considered that the bottle I used to drink water with is something I'll need while using a public restroom. I had the most awkward moment of my life as a new resident of a non-muslim country.

“Islam began as a something strange and it will return to being strange, so blessed are the strangers” (Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 145) When we look around and see something that is absolutely different from

Ever left your house forgetting to take something along? If you are like me, you'd probably spend quite a good number of minutes going through a mental checklist in your mind before you step outside t

Do you remember the first time you had to make salah outside of your home or Masjid? How did you feel? Scared? Embarrassed? For someone like me who had previously lived in a muslim-majority country, I

  “I still remember how Mum used to sit next to my bedside reciting Dua for us every night when we were little kids. I could see the barakah in that as I was growing up year by year.” Dua is one of

They say we are only travellers in this world and everyone will eventually depart to the afterlife one day, inshaAllah. However, as long as we have life on this earth, we also do travel within this wo

Have you ever wondered why, despite not missing a single prayer during the day, we still can't connect with Allah during our daily Salah? This was one question I had been asking myself for years un