الحمدلله الذي بنعمته تتم الصالحات By the grace and favour of Allāh upon me, I’ve successfully completed my Master’s Degree in ʿUlūm al-Qurʾān and Tafsīr. My thesis was titled, ‘أثر تكرار الألفاظ والآيات في بيان مقاصد سور القرآن الكريم دراسة تحليلية من سورة الرعد إلى سورة الحج أنموذجًا’ ‘A Study of the Repetition of Words and Verses in Determining the Objectives of the Chapters of the Qurʾān: from al-Raʿd to al-Ḥajj.’. Allāh is Kind and Generous when He permits His…
“The treadmill is, in fact, an appropriate metaphor. By some estimates, about 40 percent of people who buy home exercise equipment later say they ended up using it less than they’d expected. How hard we push ourselves in a given workout matters, of course, but I think the bigger impediment to progress is that sometimes we stop working it altogether. As any coach or athlete will tell you, consistency of effort over the long run is everything. How often do…
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…
