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: ย http://thehumblei.com/2013/02/04/ibn-al-qayyim-what-matters-at-heart/ โA servant is not afflicted with any chastisement greater than a hard heart and of being remote from God. Hardness of the heart...
Cross-posted fromย http://thehumblei.com/2013/02/23/the-big-freeze-are-you-enclosed-in-a-cage-of-ice/ A well-known hadith states:ย al-dunya sijn al-muโmin wa jannat al-kafirย โ โThe world is a prison for the believer and a paradise for the disbeliever.โ[1] Another...
Many passages in the Qurสพฤn extol the significance of the soul orย nafs.ย In one celebrated passage, it says: By the soul and Him that formed it, then...
It is said: โWhoever acts by what he knows, God will bequeath to him knowledge that he does not know.โ1ย Thus, as a person practices what they...
Cross-posted from: ย http://thehumblei.com/2012/08/20/ibn-juzayy-on-remembrance-of-god/ Masters of the inward life tell us that remembrance of God, orย dhikr,ย is the cornerstone of the spiritual path, the key to sanctification (wilayah)...
Cross-posted from:ย http://thehumblei.com/2012/11/30/breaking-bread-as-brothers/ God insists in the Qurโan:ย And hold fast, all together, to the rope of God, andย do not become divided.ย [3:103] The Qurโan further insists:ย The believers are...
Crossposted from:ย http://thehumblei.com/2012/09/29/have-we-weaned-ourselves-from-the-dunya/ The idea of weaning the soul away from the world, even as a child is weaned off the breast, is a cornerstone of Islamโs...
โA still tongue makes a wise headโ, says one proverb. It has also been said: โThe wounds of a sword may heal one day; the wounds...
“We were making the future, and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!” MM Treasures are posts...
