Instagramadan 16: The Appetite of Backbiting

Just like we have appetites for food and drink, our tradition teaches us that the soul actually has a bad appetite for backbiting other people - in part because it allows us to focus on problems other than our own. What's the Prophetic remedy for this problem?

Instagramadan 18: The Mid-Ramadan Slump

During these middle ten days of Ramadan, most of us are afflicted with the dreaded "mid-Ramadan slump"; skipping taraweeh, falling back into old sins, becoming lazy in devotion to Allah. How do we restore the spiritual excitement we had in the first ten days?