SarimBlog aims to provide a fresh narrative on classical and contemporary issues, showing how Islam challenges and compels and is both obvious and remarkable.
Tragically, the modern individual ascribing intelligence to a device lacking inherent knowledge of Truth, or the capacity to discern between Truth and falsehood, exposes the stark truth that it is not the machine which has become intelligent, but rather the modern individual who is assimilating the traits of a mechanically thinking machine.
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'.
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.
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...
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...
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.
Atheism denies everything. It even denies the existence of any logical postulation, so it contradicts the postulations of Atheists themselves.
The firmer one's recollection and desire for sound accountability after death, the better is their behaviour prior to that accountability. In other words, cognisance (Īmān) of the Hereafter is inextricably linked to ethics (Akhlāq)...
The next time you throw down your carpet in a parking lot, remember that you, as person about to fall prostrate in Sujud are part of that universal, harmonious symphony of creation the Creator intended...
Leavers of Islām should know full well that they leave behind nothing but a purer base, a surer assembly, and a firmer, better bonded core, ready to weather whatever dreary day or turn of fortune awaits ahead...
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