I spent my life running after the creation. I have always been what you might call ‘needy’. I needed friends, I needed people. All the time. And I couldn’t handle… Read More
Emotional bullying and being a ‘loser’ in marriage By: Yasmin Mogahed A few weeks ago, an article was widely circulated about a woman whose husband told her he was… Read More
Picking up the Wrong Ball By: Yasmin Mogahed Everyone has problems. At least that’s what my 7th grade teacher told us. He asked us to imagine rolling up all… Read More
I have spent a lot of my life trying to reconcile between hardship and ease. On the one hand, we are told again and again that the straight path is… Read More
Allah tell us in the Quran that for all things He has created an “appointed term’. This includes our hardships and struggles. They all have a birth and a death…. Read More
A photo of me when I was a little girl. My dad won a photography contest for it and appropriately called the piece “A Little Angry”. (I didn’t like my hairstyle–always had an opinion!)
Today, I’m going to talk about poverty. Yet, the poverty I speak about today isn’t the apparent kind. You see, before we can begin to speak about a concept, we… Read More
This was the hardest talk I’ve ever had to give… Leaving Mecca By: Yasmin Mogahed When I was 17 years old, I had a dream. I dreamt that I was… Read More
One Jewish Woman’s Fight for Palestine By: Yasmin Mogahed For Jennifer Loewenstein, April 19, 2002 was a “waking nightmare”. She stood silent at the edge of the camp, in disbelief–and… Read More
