SarimBlog aims to provide a fresh narrative on classical and contemporary issues, showing how Islam challenges and compels and is both obvious and remarkable.
Materialism may furnish transient and fleeting pleasure, but much like a child who quickly tires of a new toy, human infatuation with material goods is ephemeral, leaving a lingering sense of unfulfillment.
During this period, God sent his final messenger, Muhammad sala Allahu ‘alayhi wasalam to renew his covenant, revive what had been lost and salvage humanity as a whole from the calamitous decay of Christian (and Jewish) theology. The Qur’an would serve as God’s Final Testament to clarify and to preside over all that had been revealed before, while confirming the fragmentary truths that continued to exist.
Emperor Constantine's participation, a pagan politician at the time provided a ‘political middle-ground’ between his Christian and Pagan subjects by effectively clothing Greco-Roman mythology with Semitic Christian names. The expression ‘Son of God’ replaced the mythological demigod or God-Emperor. The ‘Church’ became the vehicle of the state to preside over religion and faith and secular rulers began exerting extraordinary influence over ecclesiastical affairs.
By the revocation of Mosaic ‘customs’, Paul’s inordinate influence above those who had met, lived and were chosen by Christ paved the way for ‘Christianity’ to become a completely distinct religion, not only severed from customs, as was Paul’s purported intention, but from the Judaic creedal texts and immutable realties that stressed the Oneness of God.
Abu Bakr's life serves as a radiant beacon for all of humanity, illustrating how a soul can ascend to such exalted status in the eyes of its Creator. His unwavering devotion and selfless actions epitomized Islām in every aspect of his existence... Abu Bakr - the Sidīq - finds mention throughout the entirety of the Qur'ān.
The fear of aging is rooted in the irreversible loss of cognitive and physical abilities when one is, as the Qur’ān says, “left to reach the feeblest stage of life” and begins to “know nothing after having known much”. Old age overtly proclaims the nearing of man's departure that he spent much of his life trying to subdue...
When one reflects upon the life of Ibrahīm, one witnesses the essence of submission. He submitted to Allāh by turning away from his pagan people, by leaving his son in the desert, and by obeying the command to sacrifice his son. Therefore, it is only fitting that prophet Ibrahīm is the one who bestowed upon believers the name "the ones who submit" (Muslims)...
With contentment, the shackles meticulously wrought by society to chain one down with pleasure are effortlessly taken off, allowing its wielders to free themselves from the tomb of this world, and allows them to appreciate the things that transcend it...
There arises an urgent need to elucidate the true essence of God, the Almighty. This narrative must cater to minds burdened by naturalistic philosophies that have hindered mankind's understanding of their Creator in various ways. It must address distorted narratives and resonate with the modern individual trapped in the shackles of materialistic pursuits...
The question, 'why does God take away everything' comes from the questioner's hugely flawed paradigm. It admits that this depleting, material world, that tends towards nothing, less than a drop in the ocean to the hereafter, limited and inherently cursed, "except whatever seeks the countenance of Allāh Almighty", can be 'everything'.
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