Lesson from sūrat Nūḥ: Istighfār makes a way out from difficulties, opens closed doors, resolves problems and increases in rizq.…
Despite the worsened situation that we (the Ummah) are in, we still need to be very optimistic that relief will come to us very soon. The Qurʾān is filled with examples of those before us and the hardships and calamities they bore. These stories are for us to learn from and they’re to encourage us to have a positive and hopeful outlook no matter what we’re faced with. Take the story of the Youth of the Cave for example. Allāh…
If every time Allāh gave you what you ask Him for immediately then your heart wouldn’t be desperately dependent on Him. Your īmān wouldn’t grow, and neither will your relationship with Allāh. Look at the Youth of the Cave. They got what they wanted but not before they became utterly in need of Allāh.…
[and do not display yourselves as was the display of the former times of ignorance.] al-Aḥzāb:33 This āyah specifically addresses our role models, the noble women we strive to emulate; the mothers of the believers (the wives of our Rasūl Allāh ﷺ). But in general, as scholars have stated, it addresses all believing women. The commands in it are for all Muʾmināt to follow. In the āyah, the pre-Islāmic era of ignorance, where display of women’s beauty was rampant, is…
Trustworthiness is remembering the past in order to benefit the present and future. When we were in poverty, Allah gave us riches. And when we were sick, Allah gave us health. (And when we were lost, He guided us). We will not be acting justly if we detach today from yesterday, and in doing so claim that we were never poor nor sick…. nor lost. …