Patience and thankfulness are actually two sides of the same coin. Ibn Al Qayim states that patience makes up one half of iman (faith), while thankfulness makes up the other half. He cites several reasons for this, among which are...
Allah loves you just for trying. Allah loves you just for the effort. And if you think about how beautiful and profound that is, then it actually helps you to repent and helps you to make dua. So there is a very beautiful explanation for this verse from the spiritual...
Loving Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is not only a constituent of faith but a sign of true one. The ...
What is the least a person will have in Paradise? The answer is found in a hadith narrated by Al-Bukhari and Muslim. Prophet Moses ibn Imran (peace be upon him) asked Allah about who is the one who has the least in Paradise? He’s informed that he is a man who...
Until a year ago, I was living a worthless life that I am not proud of. I could walk around unmindful of other ...
Allah doesn’t just say, “Don’t be sad”, He actually went to the root cause; the root cause was some kind of failure, some kind of disappointment that kind of wore you down, and it started taking away your own confidence, your own belief that you can actually do better…
Whenever you commit a sin, don’t look at the size of the sin itself, but look at the One you have disobeyed, the Almighty. Meaning what? It might be a really small sin in its nature, but the attitude that you have with that sin makes it extremely great.
There are seven states of consciousness which you must try to develop by remembering certain things, absorbing them and by frequently reminding yourself ...
These are all parts of the test of Allah for us. Why? In order to see what do you do when you don’t have. What do you do when things don’t go according to your liking? Do you do that which is prohibited in order to earn or in order to benefit yourself? Or do you stick to the law of Allah?
Ramadan is now over. Our eyes shed tears and our hearts ache for the departure of the month of the Qur’an, the month ...
This is how we end the journey, by going back to the beginning of it and realizing that the journey is circular and intertwined; and every thing that we discussed is not actually layer, one step after the other, but all of these steps are interconnected...
When Allah blesses people’s lives, they achieve so much in such a little time because there is blessing in their times. If you look at the lives of the companions around the Prophet Muhammad and how much they achieve in twenty years, they changed the course of history and they built a civilization that is unique in human history.
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