In honor of Thanksgiving coming up, I figured it’d be a good time for me to count my blessings and make a list of some of the things I”m thankful for. In the Quran, there is a verse about blessings: And if you should count the favors of Allah , you could not enumerate them. Indeed, Allah is Forgiving and Merciful. …which basically means that even if you tried, you would never be able to [...]

Islam is supposed to be a simple religion, with clear-cut easy to follow rules, laws, orders from God, or whatever you want to call them. So how is it possible that their is such a wide spectrum of how Muslims follow the “simple” religion of Islam? What do I mean by that? Here is an example… Regarding music and whether Muslims are allowed to listen to Music? A lot of Muslims belief that music for [...]

I recently had a chat with my Uncle, who happens to be in the restaurant business, about halal chicken nuggets. Not sure how we got to that topic of halal mcnuggets, but somehow we did. My 2 1/2 year old daughter goes through an insane amount of halal frozen chicken nuggets. She loves em! And since I was deprived of them myself as a child, I eat quite of bit of them myself! The one [...]