I was well into my life as a Muslim when I realized that growing in spirituality or strengthening my soul does not come with a simple statement of faith. It is a continuous spiritual exercise. Just like muscles don’t just appear because we have a gym membership, they must be worked for.
A great scholar, Imam Ibn Taimyah, said that the heart thirsts for Allah more than the stomach thirsts for drink and food. So some of us have come here with that thirst; how can we quench that thirst and then move forward?
The month of Ramadan is like the preseason camp for a football team or the prelaunch work for a new store or the development time for a new product. The football season only starts after the camp is over. The store opens after the prelaunch work and the product goes to market after the development time is over.
What is ultimate success? The Qur’an gives a succinct answer for this question: {Everyone shall taste death. And only on the Day of ...
Fasting is an effective lesson in moderation and willpower. It helps us to be adaptable to new situations. It enables us to overcome the unpredictable hardships of life. It generates in us the real spirit of social belonging, of unity and brotherhood, and of equality before Allah as well as before the law.
That method is important to understand, and it is captured in the first expression of the verse, (Fadallahuma Bighurur). The verb dalla is used when you draw a bucket, which is called dalw in Arabic. Another related verb is adla, which means to drop a bucket down and pull it right back up. You know in the old times there is a well and you kind of crank up the water? You know, and you pull the bucket back up, this is adla.
Sometimes it is difficult to truly understand how much you should love someone until you know how much they loved you first.When I hear the stories of Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) standing in the night, feet swollen...
Like millions of Muslims, you may be eager to visit the Holy Mosque in Makkah and join thousands of worshippers there during Ramadan ...
While the connection between the divine and the natural world was lost on me back in college, the kind of seeing I was made to do in art school did help open a door for me to accept the existence of a creator. As art students, my colleagues and I were taught...
The brain has roughly 86 billion brain cells and is estimated to generate 50,000 thoughts a day. A lot of noise exists in the mind before the call to prayer (adhan) is even made. The call to prayer begins with “Allahu Akbar” (Allah is greater) to help the mind cut...
I learned that God is not floating on a cloud far from our problems. But He is near. Even though He is above His throne, He is closer to us than even our own jugular vein for He knows what is in our very hearts. My image of God matured as my faith did.
I’m sure you have experienced it sometime in your life, when you just looked at a natural phenomena – it might have been looking at the vastness of a sea, or watching a sunset – and you were just mesmerized. Your eyes started watering from the sheer beauty of what you were beholding.
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