Category: Etiquette


  • What Would You Do?

    Three everyday situations, each with a choice of responses. Pick one, then read what the scholars said about it, in Arabic and English.

  • The Balance

    Ten scholars, one scale. Set each scholar’s virtues against his slips, then read the verdict of the scholar who judged him, in Arabic and English.

  • The Conversation

    The Etiquette of Differing Scroll to read the conversation, line by line. العربية English Both RomansSindhIndiaTurksRegions are approximate, drawn on a modern coastline. وَقَالَ سُفْيَانُ بْنُ حُسَيْنٍ: Sufyān ibn Ḥusayn mentions, ذَكَرْتُ رَجُلًا بِسُوءٍ عِنْدَ إِيَاسِ بْنِ مُعَاوِيَةَ فَنَظَرَ فِي وَجْهِي وَقَالَ: I mentioned a man negatively in the presence of Iyās ibn Muʿāwiyah. He…

  • A Scathing Critique

    Allah does not create a human isolated from others; He expects them to live with and among others. This means that a human will give and take, love and hate, be happy and angered, be kind and recompense, buy and sell, gift and be gifted, reject and be rejected. All this is intrinsic to human…