Reflections

April 2020

April 12, 2020
The other day while gardening, I dug into the earth, a mound of loam, with...

March 2020

March 15, 2020
All of us at one time or another throughout our lives suffer from some sort...

July 2019

July 26, 2019
Continuously, the eternal bright sunlight radiates throughout the golden, sunlit forest. The tops of trees...

June 2019

June 13, 2019
Written by Iljas Baker If you must call it a battle, let it be the...

May 2019

May 28, 2019
I have been jogging since I was 12 years old. It was part of life...
May 21, 2019
Within these past few months, something inside of me has changed. I became a “reborn”...

August 2018

August 02, 2018
Many people ask what the meaning of life is. It does not depend on your...

July 2018

July 10, 2018
I just turned sixty a few months ago and, for a couple of days, it...
July 03, 2018
On a rainy summer morning, I make myself a fresh cup of chai (not Starbucks...

June 2018

June 22, 2018
Like many kids in high school, I was subject to extreme bullying. I was extremely...

April 2018

April 25, 2018
Adolescence is hard to go through. During the pre-teen to young adult years, a person’s...

March 2018

March 21, 2018
Human nature is complex and imperfect. It’s easy for me to feel on top of...
March 08, 2018
There is a great deal of children who are brought into this world unwanted.  Many...

February 2018

February 18, 2018
I recently relocated to another state in my country where I had to live by...
February 02, 2018
There was an article which was recently published on Mostly Muslim, referring to marriage not being...

January 2018

January 05, 2018
Journaling is one of those endeavors which many people start, but don’t keep up. When...

December 2017

December 25, 2017
I always knew that I wanted to be an artist, ever since I was very...
December 12, 2017
  I had just finished my physical therapy session in the afternoon and timed it...
December 08, 2017
My rose bush has died a thousand deaths, but it has always come back again....

November 2017

November 17, 2017
Since the age of six, I have struggled with mental illness.  This was because of...
November 06, 2017
She’s 40 minutes late. I keep clicking at my phone, hoping that looking at the...

October 2017

October 25, 2017
I became an artist at the young age of seven. My soul was woven into...
October 20, 2017
I have my bachelors in English and masters in Elementary Education. Growing up, I found...
October 03, 2017
When I first started practicing Islam after my conversion from Christianity, I went straight to the...

July 2017

July 24, 2017
Written by Falak I have had both good and bad experiences as a young Muslim...

May 2017

May 22, 2017
Written by Waseeq Mohammad "We all make choices in life, but in the end, our...

March 2017

March 27, 2017
"You always want what you can't have." We've all heard that expression, and have experienced...

December 2016

December 20, 2016
Christmas is a very hard time of the year for me. It's more difficult than Eid...

November 2016

November 15, 2016
Written by Aisha I was selling candy for my school around my neighborhood earlier this...
November 09, 2016
If there was ever a day when America deserved to have every one of its...
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