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September 2013

September 19, 2013

A Note To My Son

I never said thank you for that time you put your hand on my back...

September 12, 2013

Advice: Starting Over

Dear Love InshAllah, I was in a relationship for ten years, engaged for three and...

September 11, 2013

Poetics of Space

Alternatively titled: Selected Readings of a Southern Life. Let us start with a discussion about...

September 10, 2013

Embracing life after a suicide attempt

From the moment I was admitted to my first psychiatric ward, I was desperate to...

September 08, 2013

Beautiful

September 06, 2013

Recite, in the name of thy Lord

Bless the lips of women who recite the word of their Lord, and bless the...

September 05, 2013

Writing for Love

When The Love, Inshallah call for submissions found its way into my email inbox, I...

September 04, 2013

Something Borrowed, Something Hot Pink

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

August 2013

August 30, 2013

Poem About Love, OCD-Style

Love is poetic, rapturous, and inspiring. If you haven't seen this wonderful poem from spoken-word...

August 28, 2013

Step Baba

I was around three when my mother met him. He said I took one look...

August 26, 2013

Brown Skin Lady

Brown Skin Lady ...

August 22, 2013

Advice: Dating a woman with a past

Dear Love, InshAllah: I've met a girl I really like. We have been good friends...

August 21, 2013

Oh, The Places You’ll Go

Sometimes love is a place. But only if people you love defined that place for...

August 20, 2013

Corona — Not the Beer — But the Place in Queens

Love, InshAllah is proud to feature occasional author interview podcasts. This episode features Deonna Kelli...

August 16, 2013

Friday Love: Skateistan

This. Is. Awesome. Bring Skateistan to the US - would love to see more girls...

August 14, 2013

You Will Know Your Name

A few weeks shy of turning forty-years old, www.patheos.com/blogs/loveinshallah editor, writer Deonna Kelli Sayed, pens...

August 12, 2013

I Have Exchanged My Heart

I Have Exchanged My Heart I have exchanged my heart for a new heart so...

August 09, 2013

Friday Love: Happy Book Lover’s Day!

Jumma mubarak & Happy Book Lover's Day!

August 08, 2013

Eid Mubarak!

Eid mubarak from the Love InshAllah family to you & yours!

August 07, 2013

On the humbling nature of parenthood

I had always envisioned myself as a certain kind of parent. At five I imagined...

August 04, 2013

Ramadan, Motherhood, Spirituality

Ramadan is almost over. During this last week of reflection and worship, we thought this...

August 02, 2013

Friday Love: Show Your Love

The 10th annual Brass Crescent Awards are open for nominations for the best blogs in...

August 01, 2013

Advice: Unrequited Love

Dear Love Inshallah, At 20 years old, I have decided that I am ready to...

July 2013

July 24, 2013

Three’s Company

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

July 22, 2013

Letter to My Mother

Read poet, med student and Love InshAllah contributor Suzanne Syeda Shah's poem on love, estrangement...

July 18, 2013

[FATHER/HOOD] Inconvenient Truth

I think I scared my daughter. Hell, I think I terrified her. When I heard the...

July 17, 2013

Where Love Leads Us

I met my husband when I had already given up on love. Our first date...

July 15, 2013

1979: A Love Story Began

Ashoke Ganguli: There is something I always wanted to ask you, but never had the...

July 12, 2013

Friday Love: Happy Birthday, Malala!

Time after time, activist and leader Malala Yousufzai has refused to be silenced. Today, she...

July 10, 2013

I Shall Be Still

1. A Lesson on Repentance, Mercy, and Compassion I know a man who is a...