Author Archives for Zaheer Razack

The Patience of My Son

Posted by Zaheer Razack on July 2nd, 2009

Some time back I was showing my three-year-old son a short video on Youtube. I don’t often do this, so needless to say he was excited. The internet connection was slow so the video paused and the white circle in the middle of the screen appeared, to show the video was buffering. He [...]

Showing off SunniPath

Posted by Zaheer Razack on June 30th, 2009

I remember a few years ago I was trying to show off SunniPath to my father.  I let him watch one of the live sessions with Shaykh Hamza Karamali on Shafi fiqh. It was the first class of the semester and he was teaching the various rulings of water. He explained that we could no [...]

Technology… in a mosque

Posted by Zaheer Razack on June 29th, 2009

SunniPath is the vanguard of combining religion and technology. A funny thing happened a few days ago. I was reading a dua at a remote mosque. I didn’t have it memorized so I was reading along with a recording on my iphone. A five to six year old Palestinian girl came up to me and [...]