Sūrah al-ʿAlaq ends with the command, ﴾prostrate and draw near﴿. The next sūrah hints at the best time to do so.…
Mūsā, one of the greatest prophets, had a speech impediment. And he was conscious of this. Thus, he makes the duʿāʾ, which Allāh relates to us in the Qurʾān, [(Mūsā) said, “My Lord, expand for me my chest (with assurance) And ease for me my task. And untie the knot from my tongue That they may understand my speech.] Ṭāhā:25-28 Firʿawn, on the other hand, was an eloquent and effective speaker. Allāh tells us about his eloquence and speaking skills…
Here I grew up thinking that cotton candy was a close substitute to clouds. The other day I read that my childish assumption was just that. And clouds are in fact heavy. Very heavy. Read this: ❝Cloud weighs about as much as 100 elephants. If you’re a Democrat and you’re feeling partisan you could substitute 2500 donkeys. If you care more for dinosaurs than politics, you could also say the cloud weighs about as much as 33 apatosauruses.❞ After the…
We’ve all attempted to define our criteria for happiness, but what is the Qurʾānic criteria of happiness set by the Almighty? [Say, ‘In the bounty of Allāh and in His Mercy – in that let them rejoice; it is better than what they accumulate.] Yūnus:58 The bounties of Allāh upon us and His Mercy are the true wealth in the form of Guidance to the Straight Patg, tawfīq to all those acts of worship that please Him, and protection from…
It is narrated that our Prophet ﷺ said, ❝The Qurʾān will come on the Day of Judgement in the form of a pale man to the one [who read it]. So he [the reader] will ask, “Who are you?” It will reply, “I am the one that caused you to be thirsty during your days, and [that caused you] to stay up your nights.”❞ In: Akhlāq Ḥamlat al-Qurʾān, by al-Ājurry. The Qurʾān will testify on the Day of Judgement —…
﴾O you who have believed, eat from the good things [Ṭayyibāt] which We have provided for you and be grateful to Allāh if it is [indeed] Him that you worship.﴿ al-Baqarah:172 Just as a person accumulates sins by doing that which Allāh has prohibited, he or she accumulates rewards by doing that which Allāh has made Ḥalāl (permissible), and that which He has lauded. Follow qr_blog on Instagram for more juice-piration, and the occasional silliness. (Since it is a personal…