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What About Women?

May 8, 2018

Reading my notes on ʿulūm Al-Qurʾān, I came across the following under the study of reasons of revelation and it made me smile. Um Salamah said to the Messenger ﷺ: “O Rasūl Allāh, I have not heard Allāh mention anything about women and migration.”…

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July 28, 2016

The expected norm from courteous men is to treat women with kindness because of their sensitive nature, for this reason it is recommended when a man gives something to his children that he start with his daughters first. Al-Ālūsī, in his tafsīr ‘Rūḥ al-Mʿānī’.😊(A more literal translation: to treat them in a way that wouldn’t break their hearts.)…

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Qurʾānic Reflections

The Bigger Tragedy

June 11, 2016

Reading the story of the Youth of the Cave, one can’t help but be moved by the immense tragedy they endured. Persecuted for their faith, threatened with torture and death, abandoned by their family, and eventually forced to flee their home and city.…

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Enduring Value

August 31, 2012

Surah al Kahf highlights what we value in this world, but it makes a distinction between a value that remains and a value that is transient. [Wealth and children are but adornment of the worldly life. But the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord for reward and better to hope for] Kahf:46 The true value isn’t in wealth, prestige and worldly pleasures, though Islam does not forbid those, for there is nothing wrong in enjoying the good of…

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