Dr. Abdullah's Blog

It was on the tenth of Muharram when Imam Hussein offered his family in defense of Islam. It was a day of monumental significance for...

The killer killed four Muslims because he was reportedly angry at his daughter for marrying a Shia Muslim. Muslim Americans acted...

Suppose India's Supreme Court or any other court in the world decides to accept a petition to expunge certain passages from religious...

On July 19, 2023, the Hijra began in the Muslim world. People congratulated each other and celebrated in different parts of the world....

A growing number of Muslims, especially in the US and Canada, now identifies with an Islam that is non-denominational. They can simply be...

Do non-Denominational Muslims practice a different form of Islam? How do they pray or fast or perform Hajj? How do they give their zakat?...

Our understanding of Islam largely comes from scholars. Not many of us make an individual efforts to go directly to the Quran or the...

Karbala, a town 100 miles away from Baghdad in modern day Iraq is the killing fields where the grandson of the Prophet and his family was...

Many reports suggest that during the early period of the Prophet's mission in Makkah, Muslims fasted on Muharram 10th; they started...

The debate about the events some 1400 years ago that resulted in the martyrdom of Imam Hussain is still on in Muslim leadership circles...

It is another day in Pakistan and it is another assault on Shias in Pakistan. It does not matter how many have died. It is not a game of...

At the beginning of each Islamic lunar calendar, the first ten days commemorate the most horrific and tragic event in various parts of...