Muslim educators who are looking for ways to encourage a love of Islam while teaching subjects like Geometry, Physics, History, Geography, Art, and more will cherish the resources offered by Pepper and Pine.
Educators encounter students daily from a diverse range of ethnicities, cultural backgrounds, academic abilities, learning styles, and socioeconomic situations. From the very first day of school, teachers often make initial observations of their students as they enter the classroom.
Whenever I felt that hardship in my life was taking a toll on me, leaving me spiritually bereft and hopeless, Yasmin Mogahed’s book Reclaim Your Heart was many times a companion that gave me the naseehah or spiritual advice, and encouragement to renew my hope and tawwakul
This past March, I celebrated the 23rd anniversary of taking my shahada or testimony of faith, Alhamdullilah (praise and thanks to God alone). Back in 2000, upon embracing Islam, I began a lifelong journey of striving for self-improvement and seeking knowledge.
The August 28, 1963, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom gathered more than a quarter of a million people to draw attention to and protest segregation, lack of voting rights, unemployment, institutionalized racism, and other civil inequities that African-Americans still faced 100 years after