Muslims are no strangers to division. There are disagreements over culture, sects, schools of thought, dress. It’s no secret that we can’t agree on much of anything. And Ramadan and Eid are no exception. Because Ramadan follows the lunar calendar, it changes every year. Muslims are supposed to look to the sky for the new […]

Every Ramadan, the Toronto-area MMW contributors try to have an iftaar. This started a few years ago when our wondrous Editor-in-Chief, Krista, invited us all to her parents’ home.   It was the first time I met Amina in person. I remember sitting in my car some three Ramadans ago and both of us just […]

  Ramadan is almost over, and as ever, I find myself wondering, how did that happen? Time does pass slower when you’re fasting, but it is the hours that slow down – especially during the long summer afternoons. The days seem to fly past. And today I looked at the schedule tacked onto the fridge […]

We’re most of the way through the last 10 days of Ramadan, the most blessed days of the most blessed month of the Islamic year. I didn’t fast this Ramadan. I haven’t fasted since the third year of grad school when I no longer had enough classes to fill my need for social interaction. During […]

Ramadan is a month when many of us try to spend more time reading the Qur’an, or listening to recitations.  I recently spoke to Zahra Khan about her efforts to draw more attention to recitations by women and girls. KR: Can you describe the project? ZK: The FITNA Women Reciters Ramadan Campaign is an online project […]

This post was written by guest contributor Nahida (@haraammermaids). One of my favorite ahadith states the following: the Prophet (SAW) said, “The souls are like an army joined in the world of spirits; whichever souls knew each other [in that world] are attracted towards each other in this world, and whichever remained distant and indifferent […]

This is the second, stand-alone, part of Decolonizing the Mosque. Part I is available here. “Mexican and Muslim? Does that mean Al-Qaeda is teaming up with El Chapo, now?” Border patrol officer in Canada, 2014. I am on edge. As Ramadan unfolds, I know images of Latinx Muslims will make it into the media again. […]

In a way, it’s a Ramadan like countless others. I am spending most of it in my home country, Singapore, with average daylight times that, over thirty days, vary by only ten minutes. Breastfeeding my two-year-old son has dwindled to a handful of comfort-seeking times a day, so I am able to fast with a […]

Two years. Life does not look like I had planned. I wash myself in the form of wudu remembering what I envisioned my life being. She had a name. She was going to be named Sara. It worked in Spanish, in Arabic and in English. She would also be given the middle name Nhis YA, […]

I have been burned a lot, fam, in this fasting stuff. This year, for a series of TMI medical reasons signed off on by the appropriate Muslim medical personnel, I am not fasting.  I laugh at the meme going around (“Not even water?” – White Person Proverb) because my medical issues are such that it […]