Pearls

Growing up, my sister, Abidah, and I called our mother “Omi;” a Trinidadian version of أُمِّي, meaning “my mother.” This word for mother, umm (أمّ), is fascinating, so let’s take a deeper dive into this … Read More

I was looking up the word زحف (z-H-f) in the dictionary, for a class with Shaykh Faisal Matadar, and noticed something interesting. A lot of the words that are formed with ز as the first … Read More