Authors: Rania Awaad and Sara Ali

Excerpt: Balkhi notes that when a person struggles with a psychological disorder, their psyche can become distorted, thus the need for advice and counseling from someone external.

Author: Hatem al-Haj

Excerpt: The differing opinions of the mujtahids on an issue are not all correct in reality, as indicated by the hadith: “And if he gives a verdict according to the best of his knowledge and his verdict is wrong, even then he will get a reward.”

Author: Ryan Holiday

Book length: 256 pages

Excerpt: More rare than talent, skill, or even confidence, is humility, diligence, and self-awareness.

Author: Hatem al-Haj

Excerpt: If it is prohibited for someone who is praying or reciting the Qur’an to bother other worshipers, then it is more prohibited for someone doing something inferior to that to bother them.

Author: Michael J. Sandel

Book length: 256 pages

Excerpt: Cash incentives work better at getting people to show up for a specific event—a doctor’s appointment or an injection—than at changing long-term habits and behaviors.

Author: Abd al-Wahhab b. Nasir al-Turayri

Translator: Adil Salahi

Book length: 95 pages

Excerpt: Such regular nightly devotion, which the Prophet practised throughout his life, could never have been put on by an impostor.

Author: Mohammad Elshinawy

Excerpt: The Qur’an’s use of stories dispels the notion that stories are just for children.

Author: Mufti Taqi Usmani

Excerpt: If the khutbah is a mode of worship, then it may not be changed based on rational opinion.

Author: John T. Cacioppo

Book length: 336 pages

Excerpt: For marital success, data shows that similarity (i.e., birds of a feather flock together) trumps complementarity (i.e., opposites attract).

Author: Jon Hoover

Book length: 176 pages

Excerpt: Ibn Taymiyya does not deny nor affirm explicitly that God is corporeal or spatial, but acknowledges that anything existing outside the mind must be accessible to the human senses, and God is no exception.