We want to do our best in Ramaḍān. We don’t want to spend a month forgoing food and drink. We want excellence in Ramaḍān. We have a general idea; fasting, praying, reciting Qurʾān. But how can you do this better? Allow me to suggest the following: Be mindful of three golden hours every day. If you guard these, then you’ll come out of the month having spent a solid 90 hours doing what pleases Allāh. The First: Finish prepare fuṭūr…
Ever had that ‘gut feeling’ to do something right or to stop you from doing something wrong? Ever found yourself an audience to an internal debate when deciding between a wrong and a right; one pushing you towards wrong and the other pushing you towards right? In a Ḥadīth narrated in at-Tirmidhī: ❝The Shayṭān has some influence over the son of Ādam and the angel has some influence over the son of Ādam. The influence of Shayṭān is to remind…
Our faith in Allāh dictates that we believe in His planning—from the major events to the minor details, we believe that they come to be as a result of a Divine decree and not by mere coincidence. As our īmān builds, we learn to switch our focus from the big events and the small details to the One behind these big events and small details. When a person makes us smile, we learn that they were only a means and…
As responsibilities, hopes, dreams and plans weigh heavy upon your shoulders and anxiety hits you like a sack of bricks, you worry about provision and wealth. You worry about health. You worry about the coming days and the coming years. You worry about rejection. You worry about the zero resources you have to fuel your life-sized projects. You worry about marriage—will you find the one; will you be happy, will he be loving and kind and caring? Will she be…
You can attend Islāmic seminars, talks and conferences regularly but none of it combined will have the same effect as attending a circle of knowledge at the feet of scholars in a house from the houses of Allāh, where the focus is on conveying ʿilm (rather than jokes and light humour with a copious amount of free-mixing *ducks*). You can attend circles of knowledge at the feet of scholars regularly but none of it will have the effect that attending…