By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) There has been a certain reluctance on the part of classical scholars when it comes to defining love (mahabbah). It is not...
By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) This is a short piece translated from Ibn Qudamah’s Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin. It distills a picture the Quran and ahadeeth build up of the...
This article was originally posted here. By: Abu Aaliyah (Surkheel Sharif) ‘There are times where my heart feels clouded (innahu la yughanu ‘ala qalbi); and I...
Original post can be found here. ‘Why is my supplication (du‘a) not being answered?’ is a common complaint that some Muslims make. If we put aside...
 Ramadan2013 Posts Original post found here. Some lovers of this fleeting life live their lives in the fast line; ever eager to keep their motor of materialism in...
As the month of Ramadan fast approaches, and as Muslims the world over await its arrival in joyous anticipation, here is a short piece by Ibn...
Question: Is marking out the 15th night of Sha‘ban (laylat al-nisf min sha‘ban) with extra prayers and devotion sanctioned by Islam, or is doing so judged to...
For the past four days I had been working on the following article, which I intended to post yesterday evening. However, I then heard about the...
Cross-posted from:  http://thehumblei.com/2013/02/04/ibn-al-qayyim-what-matters-at-heart/ ‘A servant is not afflicted with any chastisement greater than a hard heart and of being remote from God. Hardness of the heart...
Cross-posted from http://thehumblei.com/2013/02/23/the-big-freeze-are-you-enclosed-in-a-cage-of-ice/ A well-known hadith states: al-dunya sijn al-mu’min wa jannat al-kafir – ‘The world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever.’[1] Another...
