By JasmineI attended this year’s fifth annual American Muslim Consumer Conference, which aims to bring various business owners together to discuss the global outlook and rising influence of Islamic capital. This year, AMCC published a study on the American Muslim Market, which provided rich fact-based statistics needed to govern and firmly establish a Muslim business. The speaker…
By JasmineAt a point in every person’s life, they are faced with constant coaxing — The Nafs vs. Faith. It is a battle from the moment you mature, until the moment you die. It’s the real essence of Jihad. Nafs consists of negative human nature, namely: Pride, greed, envy, lust, stinginess, backbiting, and malice. Imam Ja’far…
By JasmineBeing born and brought up in Bangkok, Thailand with an Indian root was a quaint and quirky thing to me. I always had this thing of informing people of my family history — leading all the way back to my ancestors’ lives at times — and how I came to be, well, me: A mixture…
