To teach us, to purify us, to raise our ranks and for many other reasons that our minds cannot fathom, Allāh ﷻ sends us tests that often shock us. Allāh tests us to see how we think, how we react, how we behave and how we interact with what is happening. For the reasons listed above and the many more reasons that are beyond us, these tests are a blessing. Often people do not see them as a blessing. Often…
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…
Our faith in Allāh dictates that we believe in His planning—from the major events to the minor details, we believe that they come to be as a result of a Divine decree and not by mere coincidence. As our īmān builds, we learn to switch our focus from the big events and the small details to the One behind these big events and small details. When a person makes us smile, we learn that they were only a means and…
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…
