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Featured: The Etiquette of Differing: twenty short passages from the scholars on how to disagree well, in Arabic with English beneath.
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Lessons from Sūrah 99 – Sūratuz Zalzalah
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم On the Day of Judgement, there will be a huge earthquake. Consequently, the earth will spill out all its treasures…
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Lessons from Sūrah 98 – Sūratul Bayyinah
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Every nation to which a messenger was sent, was commanded through him to worship Allāh alone. Those who disbelieved from…
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Lessons from Sūrah 97 – Sūratul Qadr
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The Qur’ān was revealed on the Night of Qadr (Power). The Night of Qadr is more virtuous than a thousand…
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Lessons from Sūrah 96 – Sūratul ‘Alaq
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم When reading, start with taking the name of Allāh. So too when doing anything else. The pen is one of…
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Lessons from Sūrah 95 – Sūratut Tīn
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The city of Makkah is divinely secure. The land of Palestine is blessed. The fig and the olive hold significance…
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Lessons from Sūrah 94 – Sūratush Sharḥ
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Allāh elevated the rank of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم to the extent that there is never a shortage…
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Lessons from Sūrah 93 – Sūratuḍ-Ḍuḥā
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Allāh never left the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم in the lurch at any time. The Hereafter is better for…
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Lessons from Sūrah 92 – Sūratul Layl
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The one who spends in the Path of Allāh, adopts taqwā and believes in the best religion will be guided…
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Lessons from Sūrah 91 – Sūratush Shams
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Succeeded has the one who purified his/her soul The one who has polluted his/her soul is truly a loser. The…
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Lessons from Sūrah 90 – Sūratul Balad
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم had the privilege of having the restrictions of the Ḥaram exclusively lifted for him…
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Prolonged Suffering? Help is Near!
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم For those Muslims going through a period of prolonged suffering in the world, I’d like to draw their attention to…
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Lessons from Sūrah 89 – Sūratul Fajr
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The first ten nights of Dhul Ḥijjah hold great virtue. The people of ‘Ād were created by Allāh unparalleled and…