Family Reading

THIS conversion story is based on a hadeeth recorded by Bukhari (Book 56, Hadeeth 725).  The story was told by Abu Jamra, who heard it ...

THE following story is a parable from Jewish tradition.  A baker put a selection of delicious pastries on a tray.  He ...

IT’S a hard fact of life that, in hardware stores, women are either ignored or treated as if they are ignorant.  At Home Depot, it ...

I WAS once asked by a friend how it is that I have mothers in different countries and sisters all over the world. The weird ...

HOW often do you thank Allah (blessed and exalted is He) for the most mundane things?  I even thank Him for toilet paper.  Raised as ...

AMERICAN geneticist E. B. Lewis discovered, in 1978, that eight genes, with only minor variations in the genetic code, are present in all species of ...

KLYDE was an old camel who had worked hard for many years. He had been faithful in carrying heavy packages for his owner Bar ...

“Song of the Bell” by Linda “iLham” Barto is based on a Shi’ite tradition and is an elaboration of a story in which Prophet Muhammed ...

AS I was growing up, I was always fascinated by Uncle Ali's beard. It wasn't a very long beard. It wasn't bushy or bristly ...

Based on a Sunnah told by Al Marwazi  WHEN someone had bad manners, Prophet Muhammed (peace and blessings upon him) still treated the person with ...

ONE night Khalif Haaroon Ar-Rashid of Baghdad was quite restless, and said to his vizier (Secretary or Minister), Jaafar Ibn Yahya al-Barmaki: "I cannot sleep ...

Based on a Sunnah told by Abu Dawud Abbad ibn Shurahbil was a very poor man who lived during the time of Prophet ...