QURʾĀNIC REFLECTIONS

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September 21, 2014

❝Don’t let this world bother you, I have reached 87 years of age and I have not seen from my Lord anything but good.❞ Sheikh Ibn Bāz r.a.…

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Qurʾānic Reflections

What Hope Looks Like

September 11, 2014

Do you know what hope in Allāh looks like? Do you know what hope that Allāh will give you the very best of His bounties which your heart pines for, even though realistically and rationally speaking the mere thought, let alone an actual possibility, is too far-fetched, looks like? This:…

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August 25, 2014

❝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.…

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Personal Reflections

Remembering Dunyā

August 20, 2014

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…

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August 18, 2014

❝Allāh did not mention the mistakes of past prophets to humiliate them but He mentioned these mistakes so that YOU do not lose hope in repentance.❞ al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, in: Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī 9/147…

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Qurʾānic Reflections

What makes a strong woman?

August 17, 2014

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…

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