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...
Many passages in the Qurʾān extol the significance of the soul or nafs. In one celebrated passage, it says: By the soul and Him that formed it, then...
It is said: “Whoever acts by what he knows, God will bequeath to him knowledge that he does not know.”1 Thus, as a person practices what they...
Cross-posted from: http://thehumblei.com/2012/08/20/ibn-juzayy-on-remembrance-of-god/ Masters of the inward life tell us that remembrance of God, or dhikr, is the cornerstone of the spiritual path, the key to sanctification (wilayah)...
Cross-posted from: http://thehumblei.com/2012/11/30/breaking-bread-as-brothers/ God insists in the Qur’an: And hold fast, all together, to the rope of God, and do not become divided. [3:103] The Qur’an further insists: The believers are...
Crossposted from: 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 Islam’s...
‘A still tongue makes a wise head’, says one proverb. It has also been said: ‘The 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...
The original piece can be found here. The duties instated by faith are a necessary measure in order to regulate human affairs, guide man, prevent him from...
