Sometimes we are stuck on quantifying our faith and assuming that more is better. This mindset omits the basic fact that Islam is meant to make its practitioners happy. One of the main principles of Islam is that harm is to be removed at every step. This facilitates an easy practice of Islam, rather than a difficult one. This, ultimatley, is our goal.

Here I share three rules I learned to help me filter the type of information I receive in the name of Islam. These are very useful to help parse the many, many voices out there (including mine!)and place them in their right category.

Dostoyevsky once asked an interesting question, how would the Catholic Church act if Christ appeared right now?! His answer was not pleasing to many! However, this is a great question for us to ask as a means of reflecting on how we would measure up if the Prophet walked in right now. Are we serious in our faith, or just pretending?