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...
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...
