On September 16, an Iranian woman named Mahsa Amini passed away of a sudden cardiac arrest while in being admitted to a moral correctional class by the police. Though she died of health issues she had since childhood, the blame was put on the police….
Zoya Ibrahim
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Zoya Ibrahim aims to give a voice to the voiceless by writing stories that the mainstream media hesitates to cover. When she's not writing, she likes to study sociology and discover ways to improve the Muslim community's life and awareness to better suit their religion.
As the heartrending martyrdom anniversary of Lady Fatimah Zahra (SA) approaches, Muslims find themselves visiting Majalis and mourning for all the tragedies that befell on the daughter of the Prophet of Islam (PBUH) in 11 AH (623 CE). Many, though, accidentally or purposely, overlook the…
Too many cancellations. Please try again later. No driver was accepting our Uber request, and it had started snowing now. The sunlight, as little as an infant’s breath, glinted off from the glass-like tips of tiny snowflakes that flurried onto us from the sky like…
Came to your land and mine,Men who looked great and divine.Offered you cups of wine,Took you away from the Holy Sign.Gave you values and ideas new,And thus, your mind started to brewA passion for them, and in your heart grewWays to part from your own…
Previously on Demonic Vows: When Jawad had broken the Mottaqī laws and ran to meet a Whisperer, Warisa came to his aid. Together, they were able to defeat the devil’s offspring and were almost victorious before they realized that Taban had joined them, but he was not fully himself…
Previously on Demonic Vows: Jawad, a Mottaqī trainee, was out on an undertaking to exterminate a gunah demon of hopelessness with his sister, Warisa, and a young schoolmate, Taban, when he impulsively ran after the Whisperer who awakened the sin, in hopes of learning more about his dead mother. The Whisperer invited him for answers in the dead of the night and, abandoning all he knew was right, he decided to go and meet the devil’s offspring…
In Jawad’s world, the sins are visible by the human eye to specially trained warriors called Mottaqīn, who are assigned to exterminate them. However, one sacred rule cannot be broken: do not go seeking the Whisperers. When Jawad does exactly that, guided by his secrets and the longing for his dead mother, he endangers not only himself but all those whom he loves as well…
When pseudo-feminists want us to take off our hijab, they give us several reasons for the emergence of what we know as the veil and conclude that according to several modern factors, there is no need to practice the Islamic Hijab anymore. Some people heed…
Hiding the fact from her father and all of those whom she knows, Iqra Khalid had been secretly standing up against the tyrannical powers of the world, until one disastrous night.
As an aspiring sociologist, I loved Martyr Mutahari’s book on sociology of the Quran and couldn’t bear it until I finished reading both volumes. The exceptional way in which he combined the modern study of sociology with the themes of Quran was priceless. That’s why,…