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Muslims in the West face numerous challenges in that not only westerner assumptions including many different stereotypes and communal prejudices influence Muslims’ lives, but diaspora affects their identity as well. These challenges make Muslim identity unstable amid on one hand, a sense of belonging to the culture of origin and on the other hand, a sense of adaptation to the host culture. They are, consequently, trapped between two contrasting and conflicting cultures, constantly negotiation their cultural entities. This paper aims at analysing diaspora and its effects on Muslim youth's identity in Na'ima B. Robert's From Somalia with Love, and exploring the postcolonial key concepts of identity, diaspora and hybridity. Its purpose is to explore the challenges Muslim characters face and explicate how diaspora influences their religion and culture by mean of identifying the reasons and how identities are negotiated. To do so, this qualitative and non-empirical study is conducted in a descriptive-theoretical analysis. This paper finds that diaspora makes Muslim youths live in-between two cultures and that this third space has created a hybrid culture, affecting cultural uniqueness. This effect is reflected in the features of hybridization that appeared in a sense of alienation, lack of original cultural knowledge, practice of homeland and grandparents' customs and traditions and ancestors' history. The importance of this study lies in enabling the reader to understand the basic terms of the topic: diaspora, hybridity and hybrid culture. This is reinforced by the analysis of Homi Bhaba’s view of hybrid culture in his book ‘The Location of Culture’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some compilers of supplication materials made mistakes in their brochures with grammatical and stylistic errors. Some of them in authentic supplications and most of them in non-authentic supplications. From this standpoint, this paper seeks to highlight these linguistic and stylistic shortcomings, and by linguistic we mean grammatical, morphological and spelling issues. The research also aims to clarify the errors in those supplications and then correct them according to what is intended from the text. The research also aims to make people who pray to God to understand his words. Therefore, we see that one of the duties of a Muslim is to learn the Arabic language in order to understand the content of his prayers and to be aware of what he said and not merely repeating what he hears for by doing so he would be considered to be among those pray to God but their hearts are lame and heedless .The research uses the descriptive approach to describe the the linguistic and stylistic errors before analysing them, to explain the errors and correct them. Among the conclusions of the study, the most important of which are: it is indeed an obligation for Muslim to learn the Arabic language so that he knows the meanings of the supplications he utters whether he chooses authentic supplications or non-authentic supplications, so that his servitude to Allah the Almighty is sincere and he would be certain of the good he desires. Besides, the study indicates that the compilers of supplications do not actually care about knowing the meanings of the supplications and their correct language, grammatically and stylistically. This is the main reason why they commit such mistake while writing or compiling the supplications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]