as understood by Mehedi. Note: As of November 2023, The WordPress article is updated, but the PDF is an old, incomplete draft. Introduction and Methodology TFF's writer and exegete has readily accepted the invitation from the Quran itself, to study It. Her work uncovered that Lut (a.s). clarifies homosexuality was not the sin of his …
Continue reading Buried Banaat and Bal بل : The TFF Tafsir of Prophet Lut [a.s]
Years ago, when I was in my late 20s, I had a throwaway conversation with a misogynistic man who was trying to see me. The exchange was about three sentences each. I knew I was uninterested in him the minute he opened his mouth. But what I took away from the encounter is simple, humorous, …
Continue reading The Self-Inflicted Tragedy of Not Recognizing Our Desires Realized
I don't know if anyone's ever discussed this, but I've observed a phenomenon I've experienced wherein events unfold like this: Before prayer (or at some random time during the day), I remind myself to ask God for specific things. Success in a new role, a new program, exciting travels to here or there, ease in …
In Afghanistan, a young girl greets a stranger traveling along her road. The stranger is filming the scenic route, peacefully enjoying his good fortune in the opportunity to admire the stark beauty of God’s earth. He greets the girl politely as he passes by, hiking up a mountain. “Uncle,” the child says, in what is …
Most of you know I don’t place a lot of weight on ahadith. The Qur’an is the Word of God and the only necessary source. Ahadith are nice when they fortify our faith, but so many—even the ones supposedly considered ‘reliable’ that are somehow always narrated by those who hated women—have the opposite effect on …
We can only hope to have faith as strong as the Palestinians.
One of the parts of the Qur'an that I read, over and over, with fascination, is verses 15:28-50: the conversation between Iblis and Allah (swt) after the creation of the first human and the infamous refusal to acknowledge. I've read this in so many different ways through years, turning the verses over and over again …
I've been asking myself why we sin. Not the technicality, like free will or the ability to choose. I mean what purpose does sin serve? What's the point? On some level, the fact that the All-Forgiving forgives makes sin seem... redundant. Why allow it only to forgive it? And when is it punished, rather than …
the fatal feminist 