‘O Allaah, keep me alive so long as life is good for me, and cause me to die when death is good for me.’
the Pocket Sejadah™
by T A K V A
The Evil Eye in Us
“What’s the evil eye? Isn’t it superstition! You actually believe that there’s such a thing?” “Wait…. did you just say someone can actually harm you with their envious looks?” “It sounds just like black magic! You actually believe in that?” “Uh… okay.” – silence – It’s difficult trying to explain the concept of the evil…
How Islam Changed My View on Friendship
I was never really quite the extrovert. My shyness as a kid somewhat morphed into forced extroverted-ness when I became older, the kind where you find yourself alone in a social situation and have to force a smile and stick out your hand to people you don’t know… and then wonder why you’re making so…
A Chinese Muslim Convert’s Budget Wedding
Being of Chinese descent, weddings are tricky business for me, a Muslim convert. From the sending of roast pig from the groom’s family to the bride’s family during Guo Da Li 过大礼 (the sending of betrothal gifts); the display of dragons and phoenixes on the bride’s Qun Kua 裙裤 (traditional Chinese dress), both mythical and…
Solat Flashcards
by T A K V A
When Falsehood Seems like Truth
The Group that Lured Under the Pretext of Empathy and Superiority A few weeks after my conversion, I was invited to join a Facebook group, a page termed as a ‘support group for Muslim converts’, which I enthusiastically plunged into (yay, an entire community who understands me!). As a new convert, there were so many…
Death, is a Blessing
I have been blessed with the privilege of not knowing what it was like to lose a loved one in my 27 years of living till now. Just before I became Muslim 3 years ago, I remember my aunt asking me what I’d do if I were to die tomorrow, and I said that I’d…
The Secret Sabr
This reflection is by far the longest one I’ve taken to write (It’s been sitting in my draft folder for a few years, and I wrote and re-wrote it over and over again, deleted and written again and again). It’s not because it’s about sabr and I wanted to write it with sabr (haha, bad joke),…
The Pen is Mightier than the Sword
Learning from my Pen, and from Others’ Pens Sometime last year when I was still penning my learnings and notes on my blog Between Faith (before I started The New Muslim Co.), someone told me that it was very unusual for Muslims/ reverts like myself to publish about their journey, about Islam, because they would…
The New Muslim Co. 