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September 2013

September 04, 2013

Something Borrowed, Something Hot Pink

The first Muslim wedding I attended was my own. When I was twenty-seven and working...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Three’s Company

I must seem like good wife material to these brothas… Second wife material that is....

July 03, 2013

Aisha & The Dragon Slayer

Eds. note.: Happy 11th wedding anniversary to our columnist Aisha Saeed & her husband Kashif!...

June 2013

June 21, 2013

Friday Love: Of Love and Memes

This meme-based marriage proposal made made us teary-eyed. We never thought memes could mean...

June 20, 2013

Yes, this is about marriage

Tell us we're being picky. Tell us there is no perfect man. Tell us our...

June 06, 2013

Before the Wedding

My cell phone buzzes and when I look at the screen, it’s a text from...

May 2013

May 29, 2013

Me, Myself & I

Editor’s note: Writer Ihssan Tahir is coming on board as a www.patheos.com/blogs/loveinshallah monthly columnist! Look...

April 2013

April 18, 2013

Advice: Searching for a way forward

Ed. note: This column provides a safe space for readers to ask love and relationship...

March 2013

March 27, 2013

The Big M

Last year, while I was interning in New York City and commuting via public transit...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Why am I not married?

Last year, I was invited to an interfaith banquet to be recognized for my efforts...

January 2013

January 24, 2013

Advice: Cheated on by a pious Muslim man

Dear Love InshAllah: My husband is cheating on me. I found out because he wasn’t...

January 23, 2013

Couchsurfing to Love

Ed. note: The author of today's post won our Eid contest, "tweet us your love...

January 17, 2013

A Filmi Love Story

As I write this, my husband and I are hanging out over web cam in...

January 16, 2013

The Five Pillars of My Relationship

I'm a community organizer addressing men’s violence against women within the South Asian immigrant community....

January 10, 2013

Advice: Marriage Sucks

Dear Love InshAllah, My wife does not perform oral sex on me. It aggravates me....

January 03, 2013

Man of the House

I’ve had many humbling experiences in my life, including voluntarily going homeless for one week...

January 02, 2013

Old World Lessons on Love

Born in the 1970s at the tail-end of the women’s lib movement, I was a...

December 2012

December 19, 2012

That Bollywood Moment

Kuch Kuch Hota Hai “I hear he walks around high school with his shirt unbuttoned,...

December 13, 2012

How to get married in a month: Or, how I stopped worrying and loved Sarah Kureshi

For all those wondering about the “story” behind my “sudden” marriage to Sarah Kureshi, here’s...

December 12, 2012

From bizarre to bliss – my year on a Muslim matrimonial site

Two days had gone by since he had called. Well, two days and nine hours,...

December 06, 2012

The Greater Truth

(Ed. note: Today's guest post is by editor Ayesha Mattu's husband) Honesty is the best...

November 2012

November 02, 2012

Friday Love: Otis and Nitasha wedded bliss

Our contributor Asiila Imani shared this beautiful video of an interracial, interfaith, and multicultural wedding...

October 2012

October 31, 2012

Unexpected prayer

“Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, "You owe me."...

October 03, 2012

Delusions of Grandeur

Our wonderful contributor Huda Al-Marashi pens this hilarious piece for The Rumpus in which...

September 2012

September 26, 2012

30 Years Together

Unlike the movies, making a life with another person is rarely a happily ever after....

September 24, 2012

50 Romantic Photos

Check out more photos in Buzzfeed's collection entitled, The 50 Most Romantic Photos of All...

September 20, 2012

3 Beautiful Things Thursday: My wife laughs in her sleep edition

Cross-posted from hijabman, who is, coincidentally, the husband of Love InshAllah writer Aida Rahim! 1....

September 19, 2012

Chasing life

“You need to dress sexier,” a friend in New York says, "Show some skin, go...

September 17, 2012

For better, for worse, couples who endure

Thea & Ron A new NYT weekly feature profiles marriages, civil unions and partnerships that...

September 13, 2012

Leaving an abusive marriage

Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve had a few conversations with folks who, upon hearing...