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…
The ‘Akhlāq Ṭālib al-Qurʾān’ is a series we began over a year ago. Under this series we did independent lectures every other month on topics related to Akhlāq. This series was meant to offer supplementary lessons to students of the Qurʾān to facilitate their study. This talk will be the last in the series. The previous talks are all recorded and available to the students who sign up inshāʾAllāh.…
As a follow up to our previous live talk on humbleness (khushūʾ) in prayer, in this talk we will briefly discuss the tafsīr of sūrat al-Fātiḥah and share reflections with a special focus on this sūrah’s relation to ṣalāh (more specifically: how to understand this sūrah in order to attain khushūʾ in prayer).…
Please note: This talk is for sisters only. In our upcoming talk in the series ‘Akhlāq Ṭālib al-Qurʾān’, we will discuss the very important trait of khushūʿ. Khushūʿ is a ‘ibādah qalbiya—it is an act of worship performed by the heart; it nurtures the heart, which then propels a slave of Allāh towards His obedience until the slave of Allāh embodies khushūʿ. Without khushūʿ, worship becomes a series of actions void of meaning. A routine that a child can imitate.…