A high īmān gets you through the small every day as much as it gets you through the bigger and unexpected circumstances. It is usually the small every day that is a good gauge of where your īmān is. If you find yourself easily frustrated and quick to anger, chances are whatever aroused it was not warranted, rather it is a low īmān that is the culprit. Consider a person driving home from work, for example. When a person who…
To teach us, to purify us, to raise our ranks and for many other reasons that our minds cannot fathom, Allāh ﷻ sends us tests that often shock us. Allāh tests us to see how we think, how we react, how we behave and how we interact with what is happening. For the reasons listed above and the many more reasons that are beyond us, these tests are a blessing. Often people do not see them as a blessing. Often…
Um Sulaym came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “O Rasūl Allāh, teach me words through which I may beseech Allāh.” The Prophet ﷺ replied, “You glorify Allāh (subḥān Allāh) ten times, you praise Him (Al ḥamdu lillāh) ten times, and you exalt Him (Allāh Akbar) ten times. Then you ask Him for whatever you need, for He responds, ‘I have fulfilled it, I have fulfilled it.’” [Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb, Imām Al-Albānī]…
