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As long as we’re still in the month of Ramadan, it is high time to address another lawful activity from which we are prohibited – drinking (water, that is). Or rather, the politics around water and the world’s shrinking freshwater supply. Many regions throughout the planet are experiencing drought – the southwestern United States, Australia, [...]

Every Ramadan we have a great turnout for our Annual Ramadan Qiyam for young adults and professionals and this year was no different. We had a panel of three very distinguished bay area Imams; Zaid Shakir, Suhaib Webb and Alaeddin El-Bakri. The event was hosted by Wajahat Ali.

If Ramadan is the supposed to be the month of fasting and sympathizing with the world’s hungry, then there is one country whose people take the cake (so to speak) for going through unimaginable starvation and suffering during the 1990s. The culture and spirit of North Korea, after the Korean War of the early 1950s, has [...]

During the month of Ramadan we are all lit with a motivational fire that keeps our Ibadaat going. However, once school starts a lot of us tend to loose that fire. Learn some techniques and strategies we could use to keep that fire of Ibada going strong throughout the school year and how we can [...]

I was so worried about this Ramadan. It would entail 14-hour fasts in the end of summer and I had stopped waking up for suhur years ago so I wasn’t sure how my body was going to react. Every Ramadan means something different to me and given the circumstances, this year’s would mean extra patience [...]

Last Ramadan we had an amazing turnout for our Annual MCA Young Adults Qiyam. High School, College, Young Couples; you name it we had it. Once again this Ramadan we are bringing you an interactive panel discussion between the Guest speakers and the audience dealing with relevant topics that affect our lives as we strive [...]

With flood waters providing a perfect breeding ground for waterborne disease in Pakistan (including typhoid, gastroenteritis, dengue, and malaria) I thought it was only appropriate to write a Ramadan article on the link between agriculture and water-based disease vectors – namely, the mosquitoes that transmit malaria. These days, malaria afflicts developing countries. Even with climate [...]

It affects more than three billion people worldwide, mainly in developing countries, and is a major cause of respiratory illness and lung cancer. It’s not tobacco or urban air pollution. It’s indoor air pollution which results from burning biomass (like wood or dung) in rural household cooking stoves. As we fast this Ramadan, we might [...]