QURʾĀNIC REFLECTIONS

Browsing Tag

Qurʾānic Reflections

Qurʾānic Reflections

Empathy

October 11, 2014

Sometimes remembering other people’s afflictions eases your own ordeals. In the Qurʾān, Allāh consoles Rasūl Allāh ﷺ by reminding him that if he is being challenged and refuted, a prophet before him had to go through worse:…

Continue Reading

Personal Reflections

Turn to the Qurʾān when Faced with Calamities

September 24, 2014

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…

Continue Reading

Qurʾānic Reflections

What Hope Looks Like

September 11, 2014

Do you know what hope in Allāh looks like? Do you know what hope that Allāh will give you the very best of His bounties which your heart pines for, even though realistically and rationally speaking the mere thought, let alone an actual possibility, is too far-fetched, looks like? This:…

Continue Reading

Personal Reflections

Remembering Dunyā

August 20, 2014

The Dwellers of Jannah will remember their time in Dunyā and the Qurʾān relates to us snippets of these memories that trickle back to them. And of all the memories the Qurʾān could have mentioned, it mentions their memories with their friends. Not property, not wealth, not the thrills and adventures of this world, but their friends. Friends that become family, and the friends that are lost.. Now do you see the importance of loving, and of loving the right…

Continue Reading