It is Allāh Who favours us with guidance and then He says in sūrat Ar-Raḥmān, ﴾Is the reward for good anything but good?﴿, implying as if we did good, for which He then rewards us with iḥsān [goodness] — when in reality to Him belongs all that is good, firstly and lastly. Tafsīr Ibn al-ʿUthaymīn [رحمه الله]…
[And seek forgiveness of your Lord and turn to Him in repentance whereupon He will grant you a fair enjoyment of life until an appointed term.] Hūd:3 In sūrah Hūd Allāh commands us to do Istighfār (seek forgiveness) then He commands us to do Tawbah (turn to Him in repentance). Which raises an important question: what is the difference between the two? Their meanings are almost identical. Yet they are two completely different actions, and in order to fulfil…
A special blogpost dedicated to my precious mama and baba. In his Tafsīr, Ibn ʿAbbās narrates that there are three things which are often paired in the Qur`ān, this pairing indicates a necessary condition; for one act of worship to be sound it is absolutely necessary for the other to be performed. One such pairing is gratitude to Allāh first, and then to ones parents. If you are grateful to Allāh (a hefty task in itself!), this act is void…