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Written by Farah Amir
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Thursday, 09 May 2013 21:06 |
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 Our religion teaches us to engage enthusiastically in society, from letting our neighbours --regardless of faith -- know we are there for them, to smiling as a charity, to greeting others with good words.
However, today I gave up on being enthusiastic.
It’s kind of hard to be enthusiastic and friendly when people around you are aloof and you have to remind yourself of the reward for reaching out to them with kindness.
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Written by Sakina bint Erik
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Friday, 12 April 2013 08:15 |
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I like to tell people that I am still in the process of converting; that it is a lifelong process to really submit to the will of Allah, and to practice Islam properly. There are many changes that we must make as new Muslims, and this installment of this column focuses on how local converts have faced and embraced those changes beyond diet and dress.
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Written by Sakina bint Erik
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Tuesday, 19 March 2013 21:40 |
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While it is admirable to for one to try and reform another Muslim who is in error -- and gently correcting others is in fact an important part of the religion – there’s is etiquette for this from the sunnah (Prophetic tradition) that makes the correction more blessed.
Because Islam is a way of life, those who convert to Islam are most often under the microscope. We have a lot to learn; many small and large things we must try to fix in our lives, our worship and in our personal habits as we journey towards being practicing Muslims. We are helped along by well-meaning Muslims who seek to show us the correct way of doing things, but often we are the target of the “Haram Police” – those brothers and sisters who are little over-zealous in pointing out the Islamic impermissibility of our actions. Here is what our convert panel had to say about their experiences.
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Written by Massey Hoveyda
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Monday, 18 February 2013 22:23 |
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Carleton University’s Centre for the Study of Islam hosted a free public lecture on Feb. 4th entitled Wisdom of Islam for Non-Muslims.
The lecture was delivered by William A MacDonald, an Ottawa scholar and instructor, who recently completed his PhD in Political Science at Carleton University, during which he intensively studied the theology of Swiss scholar and philosopher Tariq Ramadan.
Dr. MacDonald began his lecture saying he wanted to speak not about religion, “but about wisdom – about Islam – and what wisdom even non-Muslims may glean from Islam.”
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Written by Chelby Daigle
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Tuesday, 22 January 2013 00:59 |
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Berak Hussain discovered her passion for counselling back when she was a student at Gloucester High School.
“I was always listening to my friends’ challenges and problems and doing my best to offer them support,” she says.
But like many second-generation immigrant students, she decided to study what was expected, not what interested her.
“It was either I be a doctor or I be an engineer.”
So when Berak started studying Psychology at the University of Ottawa, it wasn’t because she was planning a career in counselling.
“I was told that it was a good undergraduate degree to have if I wanted to get accepted into med school,” she says.
But when the young woman discovered that people could actually get jobs listening to people and helping them with their problems, she decided to do the unexpected and pursue the University of Ottawa’s Masters of Education in Counselling instead of medicine in order "to help people through the soul rather than the cell".
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