Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil thought she knew what a challenging fasting day was…until she became a mother and began nursing her baby. I thought that my hardest Ramadans were the ones I spent in Jordan, as a young student of knowledge. The days were incredibly long, and the blistering summer heat was like nothing I’d ever […]

The Arba‘iniyyat Genre between Past and Present: Basis, Origin, and a Contemporary Example By Massoud Vahedi   This overview aims to analyze a number of topics pertaining to the arba’iniyyat genre, which refers to the centuries-old practices of compiling forty-hadith pamphlets. This will be achieved by briefly looking at a contemporary forty-hadith series on Prophetic […]

Parenting can be a challenging endeavour. This reader gathers various resources on parenting from an Islamic perspective. General Guidance Rights of Children in Detail  Islamic Parenting: Ten Keys to Raising Righteous Children – Shaykh Faraz Rabbani Raising Muslim Children On The Straight Path-Shaykh Walead Mosaad Ibn Khaldun on the Instruction of Children and its Different Method Traditional Methods of Raising Children  […]

As December draws to a close, Ustadha Raidah Shah Idil gives some reflections on 2018 and the growth that she and her family experienced. I started to write this article when my daughters were asleep. Almost a year ago, my younger one was born in January.  Now I have an 11 month old and a […]