❝If a door of goodness opens for any of you then hurry to it, because you do not know when it will close upon you.❞ Khālid b. Maʿdān, in: Siyar Aʿlām an-Nubalāʾ.…
The Dwellers of Jannah will remember their time in Dunyā and the Qurʾān relates to us snippets of these memories that trickle back to them. And of all the memories the Qurʾān could have mentioned, it mentions their memories with their friends. Not property, not wealth, not the thrills and adventures of this world, but their friends. Friends that become family, and the friends that are lost.. Now do you see the importance of loving, and of loving the right…
What makes a strong woman? The kind of woman who lives by principle, who is unfazed by weak morals of those around her. One who does not succumb and give in and thereby give up what the Almighty expects of her (and what does the Almighty expect of her? This, I’ll discuss later.) The kind of woman who does not need validation of her worth from anyone, least of all strangers, least of all creepy, strange men lurking on the…
Then is the one who laid the foundation of his building on taqwa of Allāh and [seeking] His Pleasure better or the one who laid the foundation of his building on the edge of a bank about to collapse, so it collapsed with him into the fire of Hell? And Allāh does not guide the wrongdoing people. – at-Tawbah:109 The context of this āyah is a mosque which the hypocrites during the time of our Prophet ﷺ adopted in order…