Ibn Abbas once said “ the one I respect the most is the one sitting before me- he who stepped over people’s necks until he sat before me. If I were capable of preventing a single fly from landing on his face, I would have done so” The greatest practitioners…
It’s 4:30 in the afternoon and the adhan on your phone goes off. Collecting your books and laptop you make your way to the washroom where you will perform a quick absent-minded wudu, forgetting mid-way if you washed your arm 3 times or was it twice? You pull your sleeves over your damp arms,…
“The Prophet used to sit with his companions as one of them. A stranger would come in but he would not know which of them was the Prophet until he asked and was told.” (Abu Dawood) While discussing the ideal qualities of a leader Umar (r.a) once said. The…
One thing I have realized, as I get older is that increasing in age does not automatically make one wiser. Wisdom is gained by intentional participation in our trials, and a willingness to confront our wounds. The work is very difficult and hats off to all those who are active…
It was shortly after the commandment to ‘Read in the name of thy Lord,’ that the Prophetﷺ distressingly asked her to cover him up and upon doing so, Allah allowed us to glance an intimate glimpse at their extraordinary partnership. Many of us know her as the powerful matriarch of Islam’s early…
We relate to you, (O Muhammad), the best of stories in what We have revealed to you of this Quran, although you were, before it, among the unaware. Joseph 12:3 Stories are a way to disquiet the minds of listeners, and focus their attention on the connections between events, and…
