QURʾĀNIC REFLECTIONS

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Personal Reflections

A Void for Him

April 4, 2020

There is a concept that one of my teachers iterates again and again in her lessons. The past weeks, it has been on my mind more than ever. It is: كل فراغ فراغ لله Every free time you have is time that Allāh has freed for Himself. If your friends have moved away from you, if you are done with your studies, if you have not found a job, if you have been let go from a job, if are…

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Ḥadīth

An Hour On Wednesday

November 6, 2019

On a day like this, a Wednesday, from the most radiant of cities, from Masjid Al-Fatḥ, between Ḏhuhr and ʿAṣr, the most noble of Prophets ﷺ supplicated Allāh and Allāh responded. Jābir b. ʿAbdullāh said, “Thereafter, whenever a weighty and trying matter would burden me, I would pursue that hour to supplicate [Allāh] and I would always find an answer.” [Graded Ḥasan by Imām Al-Albānī, in: Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb.]…

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Ḥadīth

The Best Thing I’ve Read Today

November 5, 2019

Um Sulaym came to the Prophet ﷺ and said, “O Rasūl Allāh, teach me words through which I may beseech Allāh.” The Prophet ﷺ replied, “You glorify Allāh (subḥān Allāh) ten times, you praise Him (Al ḥamdu lillāh) ten times, and you exalt Him (Allāh Akbar) ten times. Then you ask Him for whatever you need, for He responds, ‘I have fulfilled it, I have fulfilled it.’” [Ṣaḥīḥ at-Targhīb, Imām Al-Albānī]…

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Ḥifḏh Tips

The Best Thing I’ve Read Today

November 5, 2019

“I did not find sweetness in my Ḥifḏh until I perfected it. I did not perfect it until I reached an unparalleled level of exhaustion, which I forgot the moment I tasted the sweetness of reciting the Qurʾān whenever I pleased—standing, sitting, lying down [and in between].”…

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Personal Reflections

November 5, 2019

We worry about the things to come but Allāh has already planned them in the best of ways that will allow our īmān to flourish should we abide by His teachings. ‎اللهم حسن التوكل…

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Soul Cleansing

What’s in your Heart? — I

March 8, 2019

When you are trying to understand an āyah and you know that there is a treasure trove right at your finger tips, yet you cannot seem to access it. When you are frustrated, you are upset, you have done all that you can, yet you end up at a closed gate–a figurative one, but one that keeps you from getting to that treasure. That block that you experience is the darkness of the heart that prevents you from understanding the āyāt…

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