The Prophet welcomed Al-Shaima warmly, taking off his upper garment and putting it on the ground for her to sit on. She was so delighted, as she saw Prophet Muhammad’s companions looking at her with veneration. She stayed with the Prophet for a while, receiving a most kindly treatment.
In this life, your capital is not the gold and silver you have. Your true capital, your real wealth, is the faculties that God has given you, such as intellect, ability, freedom, and the highest of these gifts – good health. “Would you sell both your eyes for a billion…
Life is so beautiful, meaningful and consequential for the former scenario to be the case. Only such as have lost clarity and a sense of purpose and direction, and have allowed their pride and self-centredness to take over instead, can entertain such an incongruous proposition.
Life is a test. We live and we learn through the pain and the joy. We cannot criticize the injustice of suffering in the world if we don’t recognize the lessons it has for us. Only our wilful blindness to those lessons makes us too proud to take them on and change ourselves.
It’s important for us to never give up. You don’t know how close you are to the end. Imagine a person digging a tunnel for example and right when they are near the end, they suddenly give up thinking that, “I don’t know how long this is going to carry on for.” Had they carried on for a minute longer, they would have broken through.
There are many different reasons why we struggle in this life. Here are 8 reasons why we have to go through hardship. A beautiful video. 3 Reasons For Hardships
It is when our inner faculties are aware and are met with these distractions and temporary nature of this world that something great can happen. These distractions can become an insight into our reality. Realizing that we will all leave this world and return to God allows us the opportunity to break free.
Allah loves those who do this until the end of their life. It is so important that we all do this one thing, change our life for Allah, seek forgiveness. 8 Benefits of Istighfar From the Quran
I have met some Muslims who were too forceful in explaining Islam, not realizing that not everyone who asks about Islam is ready to be a Muslim, and that sometimes gaining the respect of non-Muslims is just as precious as gaining a new Muslim…
We should all try to leave the world a better place than we found it. This is another one of the beauties of life – that we can use the time that we have to improve the world for other people and to make life even more beautiful in the process. We can all agree…
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