The blind man won’t see your frown, but you are to still smile at him. This is how the Qurʾān instils manners in us. 🙂…
The twelve months of the year are like the twelve sons of Prophet Yaʿqūb. And just as Prophet Yūsuf was the most beloved to Yaʿqūb, the month of Ramaḍān is the most beloved to Allāh. And just as Allāh forgave the eleven brothers by the duʿāʾ of one; Yūsuf, He can forgive your eleven months of sins by your duʿāʾ in Ramaḍān. — Imām Ibn Jawzī, in: بستان الواعظين ورياض السامعين، مجلس ١٣…
This Ramaḍān when you call out to Allāh, do so with the proper etiquettes. Some of these etiquettes are evident in the āyāt of the Qurʾān, specially in the supplications of the Prophets and Messengers. (And when I am ill, it is He who cures me.) ash-Shuʿarāʾ:80 ﴾And [mention] Ayūb, when he called to his Lord, “Indeed, adversity has touched me, and you are the Most Merciful of the merciful.”﴿ al-Anbiyāʾ:83 Notice the previous two āyāt, is there something…
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…