Tag: Allah


  • 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…

  • Allah’s Sustaining of His Creation

    Allāh’s sustaining of His creation is of two types: (Paraphrased from the tafsīr of Shaykh ‘Abdur Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir As-Saʿdī رحمه الله)

  • Reaping the Virtues of Adhkār

    Whilst commenting on the final ḥadīth in Ṣaḥīḥ Al-Bukhārī, Al-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Ḥajar has quoted Ibn Baṭṭāl رحمهما الله in his famed ‘Fatḥ-Al-Bārī’, as saying: ‘The virtues of dhikr (remembrance of Allāh) which appear in the aḥādīth are only for those who have a standing and are [somewhat] perfect in Dīn, like being free from ḥarām…