Imagine This

Close your eyes and imagine this
Eternal bliss,
Your every wish, at your finger tips
and more…
 
Perched on a throne, near a stream
So serene and exquisite a scene
You’ve never seen
Yet you still dream
of more…
 
Gone is grief, gone is fear
Gone is pain, gone are tears
Idle speech you shall never hear
And the Prophets make up your social sphere
and more…
 
The [...]

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Keeping it Real in the Prayer

It’s probably one of our most common and indeed biggest individual problems that we face in our salah/namaz/prayer every day and that is to actually know what you’re doing, where you are, what you’re saying, what’s going on, feeling the presence and making it a real act of worship.
And by keeping it real, I mean [...]

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On the Eve of Her Marriage

One of the most famous and most beautiful of these texts was recorded by `Abd al-Malik ibn `Umayr al-Qurashi, who was one of the outstanding scholars of the second century AH. He quotes the words of advice given by Umamah bint al-Harith, one of the most eloquent and learned women, who was possessed of wisdom [...]

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“The Qur’an does not discuss essentially related matters in separate chapters like what one finds in science or philosophy books but everything is tied together and presented as one unified, related whole.”
[Qutb, Sayyid. Qtd in Zarabozo, How to Approach and Understand the Qur'an, p. 130]

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“Women are in the shade of Islam… and men are in the sunshine.”

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The Door

وعن عُمَرَ بْنَ الْخَطَّابِ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ سَمِعْتُ رَسُولَ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ يَقُولُ :
” إِنَّمَا الْأَعْمَالُ بِالنِّيَّاتِ وَإِنَّمَا لِكُلِّ امْرِئٍ مَا نَوَى فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى دُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا أَوْ إِلَى امْرَأَةٍ يَنْكِحُهَا فَهِجْرَتُهُ إِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ إِلَيْهِ“
رواه البخاري

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It was narrated that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allaah be pleased [...]

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