“I don’t think we were shown the right Islam,” she says.
She used to sneak to Madrasa (Islamic School), holding onto her faith in silence, until her family found out.
They told her to leave.
At just 17 years old, Claire had nowhere to go.
She remembers her first Ramadan clearly. “I remember breaking my fast with almost nothing,” she said. “Sitting there thinking… is this what it’s meant to be like?”
Today, Claire’s story is not just one of struggle, it’s one of resilience. And there are many women like her, still breaking their fasts alone, still choosing faith despite the cost.
This Ramadan, many revert women are facing it alone, with no family to spend it with. You can be their family.
What if the key to getting through your hardest times isn't pretending everything is okay and isn't despair either?
In this session from AlMaghrib's Ramadan webinar, Ustadha Yasmin Mogahed breaks down the dua of Prophet Ayyub ﷺ and what it teaches us about real resilience. Not toxic positivity. Not hopelessness. But the believer's formula: honest acknowledgment of your pain and unshakeable certainty that Allah will bring the light again.
She also draws on the Stockdale Paradox — a remarkable story from psychology about how people survive the unthinkable — and shows how it maps almost exactly onto what Ayyub ﷺ demonstrated thousands of years ago.
If you've been masking, suppressing, or just telling yourself you're fine when you're not — this one's for you.
Two men beneath the ground. One Sultan 800 miles away. And a secret mission that saved the most sacred resting place in Islam.
In 1164 CE, the city of Medina slept in peace, unaware that a plan was in motion to shatter the heart of the Muslim world. Two men, posing as pious travelers, had spent six months digging a tunnel toward the blessed grave of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ. While the community loved and trusted them for their charity and devotion, they were secretly cutting into the very foundation of the sanctuary.
In this episode of his Ramadan series, Yasir Qadhi explores one of the earliest encounters between the Muslim world and the Indian subcontinent: the campaign that brought Islam to Sind.
Long before the arrival of Muslim armies, the region was home to ancient civilizations, powerful dynasties, thriving Buddhist centers, fortified river cities, and maritime trade networks that connected India to the wider world. Into this complex landscape entered a young general whose name would become inseparable from the history of the region: Muhammad ibn al-Qasim.
Under the Umayyad Caliphate, and with the backing of the powerful governor al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, the campaign into Sind was launched with multiple objectives. It sought to address piracy along the Makran coast, secure trade routes, and expand the political authority of the Umayyad state.
The episode traces the political context of the time, from the rule of ʿAbd al-Malik and al-Walid, to the wider expansion of the Muslim world across Central Asia and beyond. It also examines the role of other figures such as Qutaybah ibn Muslim, whose campaigns opened the eastern frontiers of the Muslim world.
Beyond military history, the episode explores how early Muslim rule interacted with the existing religious communities of the region. Hindus and Buddhists were largely allowed to maintain their traditions while participating in the new political order through the system of jizya, reflecting a broader pattern of governance in early Islamic expansion.
Throughout the lecture, Shaykh Yasir reflects on the deeper lessons of history: the rise and fall of kingdoms, the role of youth in leadership, and the Qur’anic reminder that true authority belongs to Allah alone.
This episode also reflects on prophetic traditions about the conquest of India and places them within the broader historical context of the early Muslim world.
From the Makran coast to the cities of Sind, this is the story of how Islam first entered the Indian subcontinent and how those events shaped centuries of history that followed.
“Whoever fasts one day in the path of Allah, Allah will distance his face from the Fire by seventy years.”
In this khutbah, we reflect on the deeper meaning of this powerful hadith. We explore what it means to build distance from the Fire, why a believer should never feel secure from it, and why no act of fasting is ever small in the sight of Allah.
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