Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 The most frequently repeated phrase in the Islamic tradition is Bismillah ir-Rahman ir-Rahim — in the name of Allah, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. A Muslim who follows the sunnah says it before eating, before drinking, before beginning any meaningful action. It opens 113 of the […]
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 The question deserves to be asked plainly: does Allah love us? Not in the abstract — does the Creator of the universe have something that could be called love for the human beings He created? Something real, something particular, something that reaches into the specific circumstances of
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 There is a belief — quietly held by many adult Muslims — that Quran memorization is something that happened, or was supposed to happen, in childhood. That the window closed somewhere around the age of twelve, and the adult who didn’t come up in a hifz school
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 The Prophet ﷺ said: “The best of people are those who are most beneficial to people.” — Al-Tabarani. This is not a complicated hadith. It doesn’t specify which religion the people you benefit belong to. It doesn’t require that your service happen through an Islamic organization. It
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 If you’ve ever fasted — whether for Ramadan, a voluntary fast on Monday and Thursday, or a voluntary Ayyam al-Bid fast — you’ve probably met the Ramadan headache. It usually arrives in the early afternoon, somewhere between Dhuhr and Asr, when the fast is at its longest
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 Every year, thousands of people in America say the shahada and become Muslim. They arrive at the door of the deen with open hands — leaving behind aspects of their previous life, sometimes family relationships, sometimes their entire social world — and step into what they believe
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 There is a version of Muslim manhood that is built on dominance, emotional suppression, and a weaponized misreading of Islamic texts. It confuses hardness with strength. It mistakes the inability to express vulnerability for dignity. It invokes the concept of qiwamah — male guardianship — as a
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 The numbers are staggering. In 2018, the BBC sampled 55,000 people around the world and found that 40% of 16-24 year olds feel lonely often or very often. The World Health Organisation has declared loneliness “a pressing global health concern.” The U.S. Surgeon General described its mortality
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 Let’s be honest about what we’re dealing with here. Fajr is not hard because people don’t care about it. Most Muslims who consistently miss Fajr care about it deeply — they feel the guilt, they make the intention the night before, they go to bed thinking “tomorrow
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Published by Yala Media Group | April 2026 There is a moment in every Muslim’s life — sometimes many moments — when they stand before something they want, and the path to it runs through something Allah has prohibited. Or they hold something they love, and they understand that holding it is costing them something
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