October 23, 2020

    HAJJ DIARIES PART 2

    Day of Arafat Before dawn on the day before Eid, all pilgrims were transported to the Mount Arafat to spend…
    August 27, 2020

    AISHA BINT ABU BAKR [RA]

    AISHA BINT ABU BAKR  [RA] Umm-Al-Mu’minin (Mother of Believers) Note: For ease of reading, we have not inserted “May Allah…
    October 26, 2020

    PART 7 – THE VALUE OF THE NAMES OF ALLAH

    Muslim dwellings are often decorated with beautiful calligraphy and Islamic art praising the attributes of Allah. When we admire these…
    September 3, 2020

    Exercising our choices

    It is normal for a Muslim in any Western society (by Western, I also mean any non-Muslim society) to feel…
    September 7, 2020

    WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE? PART 6

    Elevation through Difficulty The Messengers and Prophets all led difficult lives. Their calamities and hardships were actually a form of…
    September 1, 2020

    PART 35 – ONLY YOU WE RELY UPON

    Allah wants us to surrender with complete pleasure, and believe that embedded our lives is goodness which we cannot comprehend.…
    September 11, 2020

    YUSUF AS – PART 2

    The moment the wife of the minister saw him, she loved him and took him like the son she never…
    September 11, 2020

    NUH AS [ PART 1]

    THE BIRTH OF IDOLATORY Allah in His wisdom had deployed over 124,000 Messengers and Prophets to guide mankind towards the…
    September 7, 2020

    THE PHILOSOPHY OF DE-CLUTTERING – PART 4

    Eliminating the negative Marie Kondo, the Japanese tidiness guru, introduced the concept of eliminating things which do not “spark joy”…
    October 27, 2020

    PARTING ADVICE

    Marriage is the nucleus of the ummah. Islam would not have flourished
    September 7, 2020

    THE FAMILY UNIT – THE HEART OF THE UMMAH – PART 2

    What is wrong with our wedding celebrations? At the time of marriage, our Islamic values are undermined and even obliterated.…
    October 26, 2020

    PART 3 – CHARACTERISTICS OF A MUSLIM, MUHSIN AND MU’MIN

    Today, we read, listen and post links, argue and try to be superior in talking with “knowledge”, but we have…
    August 26, 2020

    GRAPES

    GRAPES Qur’anic Reference: Surah An-Nahl:With it He causes to grow for you the crops, the olives, the date-palms, the grapes,…
    September 7, 2020

    WHO AM I AND WHY AM I HERE? PART 5

    The Sunnah of Allah Allah’s method will never change. Allah has sunnan (precedent) or a fixed way of doing things:…
    October 23, 2020

    PART 4 – MUHAMMAD (PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE UPON HIM)

    The Reason for Revelations In the history of mankind, for every time a nation, a group of people, a family,…
    September 11, 2020

    SALEH AS

    HOMES IN THE MOUNTAINS The tribe of Thamud lived in the Arabian Peninsular, between Hijaz and Tabuk. They were of…
    September 7, 2020

    PART 3 – SWEETENING THE PAIN

    Most of us will tolerate our job conditions if we are well paid. Even if we tried to complain, others…
    September 3, 2020

    16. DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE ALLAH’S POWER

    Allah bestowed upon one of His prophets, Sulaiman AS, control over the elements and creation such as the wind, rain,…
    October 23, 2020

    WHY RAMADAN IS SPECIAL

    When Mohammad (SAW) saw the crescent, the new moon on the month of Rajab which is one month before Shaaban…
    September 7, 2020

    ENVY

    Envy Envy is the biggest cause of mankind’s downfall throughout history. When one nurtures discontentment, that feeling will eventually lead…
    September 14, 2020

    THE QUR’ANIC MAP [PART 2]

    A SUGGESTION: BEGIN WITH THE MECCA VERSES Part 2 The Mecca verses are described in Part 1 of these series.…
    September 7, 2020

    ISLAM IS FROM THE INSIDE OUT, NOT THE OUTSIDE IN

    As a child, and even into my adulthood, I was brought up to believe that all one needs to do…
    September 14, 2020

    THE QUR’ANIC MAP [PART 1]

    DEMYSTIFYING THE QUR’AN – A SIMPLIFIED GLIMPSE INTO UNDERSTANDING THE QUR’AN Part 1 What is the Qur’an? The Qur’an is…
    September 7, 2020

    BETWEEN ISLAM, CULTURE AND MATERIAL LIFE

    Divisions between us are growing on a daily basis, even between groups of supposedly pious Muslims. When infused with other…
    September 7, 2020

    VISITING THE ILL

    This is never a comfortable topic, because visiting and taking care of the ill is not something that is pleasant.…
    September 14, 2020

    DHUL-QARNAYN

    The final story in Surah Al Kahf is in relation to Dhul-Qarnayn. This story, including the story of the People of…
    September 7, 2020

    BUILDING BRIDGES WITH THE NON-MUSLIM COMMUNITIES -PART 3

    Step one – seek knowledge and supporting the truth Is our purpose in life to benefit each other or to…
    September 11, 2020

    YUNUS AS

    Seasons came and went, and again the memory of Allah faded from the hearts and minds of humankind. Communities lapsed…
    September 7, 2020

    HOW TO COPE WITH LIFE- PART 1

    “We live in interesting times” There is an ancient proverb which goes – “May you live in interesting times”. Although…
    September 14, 2020

    UZAIR (EZRA)

    Uzair was one of the pious men within Bani Israel, who lived after the time of Musa AS. He was…

    Daily Hadith

    Reported by Abu Hurairah (RA): The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “The upper hand is better than the lower one (i.e., the spending hand is better than the receiving hand); and begin (charity) with those who are under your care; and the best charity is that which given out of surplus; and he who asks (Allah) to help him abstain from the unlawful and the forbidden, Allah will fulfill his wish; and he who seeks self-sufficiency will be made self-sufficient by Allah”.
    [Al-Bukhari].

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