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August 2012

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Won’t You Then Remember?

August 21, 2012

  [And We have certainly made the Qur`ān easy for remembrance, so is there any who will remember?] Qamar:40 Whenever people quote this ayah, they quote it in context of memorising the Qur`ān, and that Allah has made it easy for memorisation. And indeed He has. But what most people don’t realise is that Allah subḥaneh revealed it in a certain context, different than what we use it in. His context was the disbelieving nations who had belied the message…

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Thou Do We Worship, and Thine Aid We Seek

August 20, 2012

•[إياك نعبد وإياك نستعين]• [You Alone we worship, and You Alone we ask for help] Fātiha:6 Worship is for our Lord and it is His right. And seeking help is for His slaves. Thus worship precedes seeking help; it is only natural for us to precede a request to our Lord by acts that please Him. And standing before Him in worship guarantees His aid. Ibn Taymiyyah – may Allah have mercy on him – said, “I pondered on what…

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How It All Began

August 19, 2012

Most people will tell you that before they found the path of Allāh, there was a turning point. Perhaps it was a place that they went to which changed them, perhaps it was the people that they met who had an impact on them, or perhaps it was a situation that they were in which led them to re-prioritise their life. Whatever it was, it only happened because He destined you to it and then He guided you: [and He…

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