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…
If you are memorising the Qurʾān, is there any sūrah that you especially love reciting? Perhaps sūrat ar-Raḥmān? That’s an ‘easy’ sūrah to recite, isn’t it? The key to what makes it especially easy is that you hear it and recite it so often that it’s well cemented in your memory. Now is there any sūrah that you find particularly difficult and that you don’t look forward to reciting? Maybe if your teacher was to test you, you would secretly…
Allāh is al-Mujīb: The Fullfiller of Prayers; The Responsive One; The One who responds to needs of the creation. We learn that Allāh is al-Mujīb from what He relates to us in the Qurʾān. We affirm and believe in whatever He tells us about Himself in the Qurʾān and sunnah. This form of knowledge is called ʿilm al-yaqīn (a knowledge we are certain of and believe in.) But Allāh wants good for us, He wants our īmān to thrive in our hearts;…
Knowing Allāh subḥānah is of two types: First, an awareness that leads to affirmation [of God’s existence], this [knowledge] is common amongst all people: the righteous, the evil; the obedient, the disobedient. Second, an awareness that necessitates shyness from Him, love for Him, attaching the heart to Him, yearning to meet Him, fearing Him, turning to Him and repenting to Him, finding solace in Him, and fleeing from the creation to Him. This is a special awareness that is known…