Category: Longer Reads
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One of my favourite ḥadīths is reported by Al-Bukhārī on the authority of Anas ibn Mālik, who narrates that he along with a group of Companions, accompanied the Prophet ﷺ in visiting his young son (Ibrāhīm), who was in the final stages of his life. Tears began to flow from the Prophet’s ﷺ eyes. ʿAbdur…
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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…
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The family system is a phenomenon inherent to our very being. No human is born without a mother (with the exception of Ādam and Ḥawwāʾ (Adam and Eve)), or a father (with the exception of ʿĪsā (Jesus)). By extension then, we would all naturally have relatives too: children, grandparents, aunts and uncles, both maternal and…
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It had been a childhood desire of mine, from the time my father informed me regarding it, to visit a land which was under Muslim rule for approximately eight hundred years, Spain. Alḥamdulillāh, Allāh fulfilled this yearning of mine recently, and I am writing to share a few points. Allāh says in the Qur’ān, “Say…
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Here in the UK, we have been experiencing strong winds over the past few weeks, and I felt the need to write a post based on how the wind has been mentioned in the Qur’ān and the aḥādīth. This was so that I myself and the readers could gain a better…
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Ibn Hishām, a famous scholar of sīrah, narrates from Ḥalīmah As-Sa‘dīyyah رضي الله عنها that she, together with her husband and baby son – whom she was breast-feeding, left with a few women of the Banū Sa‘d tribe in search of children to be suckled. She says: “It had been a year of severe drought,…
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The month of Ramaḍān is a blessed month full of virtue from beginning to end. However, the last 10 days of the month of Ramaḍān hold greater virtue than the rest of the days of the blessed month.This can be deduced from the fact that the Prophet ﷺ would make a…
