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Every established religious tradition faces the same practical problem. Its foundational texts were revealed or written at a particular moment, and its followers then live through centuries of circumstances those texts do not directly address. Som...

The question comes in various forms. Sometimes it is asked in good faith by a curious colleague. Sometimes it arrives from a teenager who has encountered a confident argument online and wants to know whether there is an answer. Occasionally it is ...

Tajweed is the set of rules governing how the Quran is recited: how letters are articulated, where sounds are lengthened, how words connect and where a reciter should stop. The word itself carries the sense of doing something well.Many Musl...

There has never been more Islamic knowledge available. Lectures, sermons, courses, and study circles are accessible at any hour, in most languages, on nearly any topic.And yet a familiar pattern repeats. A person listens to a great deal, fe...

A large number of Muslims carry a quiet embarrassment about the Quran. They own one, they treat it with respect, and they have never really read it. Perhaps they learned to sound out the Arabic as a child and retained the mechanics without the mea...

There is a particular kind of discomfort that comes from walking past someone who needs help. Most of us have felt it. We resolve the discomfort quickly, usually by deciding that the problem is too large, that our contribution would not matter, or...

The first word revealed of the Quran was a command to read. Not to pray, not to fast, not to give. Read.Muslims cite this often, and the repetition has worn the strangeness off it. But it is genuinely unusual. A religion whose opening instr...

Most discussion of Islamic giving concentrates on zakat, and understandably so. It is a pillar, it is obligatory, and it comes with rules precise enough to calculate. But zakat is a floor rather than a ceiling, and a Muslim whose giving stops ther...

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