This article addresses some fundamental questions, misconceptions, and “truths” about this often misunderstood and controversial issue of Taqlid, including: The etymology, literal and religious meaning of...
“Manners maketh man,” insisted William of Wykeham, the fourteenth century English churchman and Chancellor of England to Richard II. So significant is this wisdom that it...
“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self,” wrote Aldous Huxley, the English novelist best known...
Previous: Dhahabi’s Gifts of Gold – 1 Imam al-Dhahabi’s gifts of gold, Part 2, providing answers to ever-important questions and thoughts: What of taking knowledge from...
Imam al-Dhahabi’s gifts of gold providing answers to ever-important questions and thoughts: What is preferred: seeking knowledge or engaging in acts of devotion? Remembrance of people...
by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah As people are content with the world, so you should be content with Allah. As they are delighted by the world, so...
by Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah Come! Let us enter the presence of Allah and draw closer to the Abode of Peace; without fatigue, exhaustion, or toil: but...
Gems from Ibn al-Qayyim [1] (Reposted due to some errors, comments lost, sorry) From the signs of bliss and success is that a person,whenever he grows...
When we compare our lifespans wherein our endeavors unfold to the age of the earth, or to that of the universe which we are told is...
Previous: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 The Earth’s Complaint (Final) 4. SANCTITY Another tenet in Islam’s weltanschauung or worldview concerns sanctity of life: both human...
