The greatest gift a father can give his child is not wealth, status, education or even protection, but to help that child establish a direct and enduring relationship with God.
The Fable of the Good Father
Category: Short Reflections
Concise Islamic reflections on worship, character, family, freedom and the responsibilities of everyday life.
The Eternal Message and the Everlasting Life
This transient world is governed by age, decay, death and destruction, it is the limited domain, a cage and prison for the immortal soul, whereas the Heaven is under the Countenance of God, the Infinity and hence inexhaustible.
When will Allāh’s Justice Arrive?
There is no doubt that if the onerous trial that besets the believer is for a Divine Purpose incomprehensible to Him, the duration of that tribulation also serves a Divine Purpose beyond our understanding. It makes little sense to ask when 'when' our minds are too limited to even fathom 'why'.
The Complete Man
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.
Will the Heavens Cry Over Me?
Once, the dwellers of the heavens witnessed the ascent of the righteous person's good deeds to Allāh. They observed the sincerity of their prayers, the devotion in their prostrations, and the humility in their supplications. The celestial beings beheld their sincere, dedicated and continuous worship, witnessing the radiance of their faith illuminating the world.
Deliverance from Senility
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...
From the Womb of Affliction
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'.
Do Not Say ‘Uff’ to Them
If one is ready to dishonour their parents, who are the selfless providers, the care-takers, the protectors and the obeyed authority in one's life, he is correspondingly ready to dishonour the Creator, Who is the Ultimate Provider (al Razāq), the Ultimate Care-Taker (al Raqīb), the Ultimate Protector (al Muhaymin) and the Ultimate Authority (al Waliy).
How Can You Lose Your Way?
Just as Paradise is as wide as the heavens and the earth in a physical sense, the heavens above us and earth beneath us abound with signposts and markers to that very destination.
They Say: “Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is”
Sadaqa is arguably the promptest deed at the helm of a death that could prove one's sincerity if death were to give respite to its desperate victim...