So it’s that time of year again. When the days are short, the nights long and you have large amounts of time off from your school/...
By: Ammar AlShukry [youtube 2K0dJ8UiKfs] Transcript: You’re the best person I’ve ever known, the best friend I’ve never met Your sincerity to me is blinding enough...
The Quran is not a storybook of wondrous tales and ancient fables, isolated from the realities and complexities of real life. Each verse, in fact, each...
What is the meaning of the statement by the four Imams: Abu Hanifah, Malik, al-Shafiโi, and Ahmad Ibn Hanbal, that โwhen a hadith is found to...
The Dilemma โYou need to be open minded,โ we are both told and tell others. This has become the common line to say to anyone who...
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...
We watched an episode ofย Anthony Bourdain: No Reservationsย on โฤชd day, it was playing in the background at my in-laws’ place, after the presents had been opened...
There is no place on Earth as venerated, as central or as holy to as many people as Makkah. By any objective standard, this valley in...
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...
57.ย ย Abu Thabit from Sahl bin Hunaif said: The Prophet said:ย “He who truthfully asks Allฤh for martyrdom (Shahadah), Allฤh will raise him to the high status of...
