Author: Zaid Shakir

Excerpt: Activities provide a setting where children can interact with elders in an informal, nonreligious setting which opens up doors for a deeper personal relationship that subsequently facilitates their willingness to benefit from their religious knowledge and experience.

Author: Abdullah bin Hamid Ali

Excerpt: Imam al-Shāfi‘ī RH divided innovated matters into “good” and “bad” depending on whether or not they conformed to the guidelines of the religion.

Author: Justin Parrott

Excerpt: Satan tries to lure people into sins using small steps that lead to greater and greater sins. Thus, Islam seeks to protect people by prohibiting some things that might be seemingly insignificant at first glance.

Author: Zohair Abdul-Rahman

Excerpt: Fear is a positive emotion if it motivates one to stay away from harm (sins) and to pursue what is beneficial (worship).

Author: Safaruk Chowdhury

Book length: 45 pages

Excerpt: Alcohol from dates and grapes is called khamr and it is harām and najis regardless if it is a little or a lot. Alcohol from other sources is called nabīdh and may be availed with certain conditions.

Author: Osman Umarji

Excerpt: Using the wealthy for comparison leads to a scarcity mindset that leads to stinginess, whereas using the poor for comparison leads to an abundance mindset that leads to generosity.

Author: Justin Parrott

Excerpt: Ibn Taymiyyah wrote a work entitled: A concise rule regarding
fighting the unbelievers and making truces with them, and the
prohibition of killing them merely because of their unbelief.

Authors: Yousef Wahb and Mohammad Elshinawy

Excerpt: Ibn al-Jazarī: “Reciting less but with tartīl and tadabbur is superior to reciting quickly and more, because the objective is to comprehend the Qur’an and act upon it, while reciting and memorizing it are a means.”

Author: Omar Suleiman

Excerpt: A sense of belonging is a fundamental human need, and its absence results in a sense of anxiety and isolation.

Author: Justin Parrott

Excerpt: The correct way to rely upon Allah is with the awareness that Allah has decreed goodness for those who work for good.