QURʾĀNIC REFLECTIONS

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June 6, 2013

Indeed, [true] happiness is happiness with the Book of Allāh taʿālā. ʿOmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, raḍi Allāhu ʿanh.…

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What is a Qurʾānic Reflection?

June 4, 2013

Ideally this should have been the very first post on le blog. But it wasn’t. This was. Tadabbur is a term that often appears in the study of Qur`ānic sciences (it appears in the Qur`ān as well!). Tadabbur is a form of exegesis and in simpler terms it translates to ‘reflect’. Thus the name ‘Qur`ānic Reflections’. For a better idea on what Tadabbur means and entails, we look at the words of our scholars – Ibn al-Qayyim expounds the essence of…

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May 29, 2013

One of the signs that Allāh has turned away from a person is when he becomes increasingly involved in that which does not concern him. Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣrī, in: Muwaṭa` Mālik, chapter of Good Manners.…

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May 27, 2013

The Islāmic Affairs ministry of the Kingdom of Bahrain (Allāh preserve the people, the country and the leadership upon al-Ḥaqq), initiated a project to print and send a million Maṣāḥif to Africa. This gave rise to the ‘Muṣḥaf al-Bahrain’ project. Bifaḍl Allāh taʿālā, because of Whom all good comes to be, this project is in it’s final stages. In the pictures: hundreds and hundreds of ḥuffāḏh and ḥāffiḏhāt seated in Bahrain’s grand mosque, revising the copies of the Muṣḥaf – letter by letter, ḥarakah by ḥarakah. (To…

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Memorise Qur`ān in TWO months. (19 tips to get you there)

May 22, 2013

Note: This was originally posted on my other blog: A World with Strangers. Since then, I have put that blog to sleep. A sister recently requested for this post, so I decided to put up a slightly edited version here, the original title was:Memorise Qur`ān in TWO months. (18 tips to get you there.)  I hope everyone can benefit from it.   Sheikh Abdul-Qādir al-ʿĀmrī oversees a summer Qur`ān boot camp in Dubai, where children from the age of 13…

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