Spirituality

“I am skydiving for Medical Aid for Palestinians; please donate generously for a truly worthy cause,” is a request that was retweeted to me some months ago. Naturally, any attempt to raise money for a people who are suffering under ...

Many people complain that their iman is low and the sweetness of actions that they once tasted as they did when they first started their journey upon the Deen, is no longer there. The prayer has decreased to obligatory ones ...

Enveloped by the hustle and bustle of 21st Century life and a culture where inactivity is akin to sloth and idleness and contrary to the notion of productiveness, it can seem somewhat alien a concept to many of us to ...

The best form of worship is when the act is performed with Allah in mind from the beginning until the end. All praise belongs to Him, and may the choicest benedictions and salutations be upon His Prophets. Some say that ...

Incredibly, in our current times, we’ve come to almost abandon this virtue of constant istighfar and only seem to associate it with the major sins and when we fall into grave matters! When reading through the books, in particular the ...

The best form of worship is when the act is performed with Allah in mind from the beginning until the end. Whilst special attention is given to how actions are performed from an outward perspective, what is often neglected is ...

After Ramadan do you breathe a sigh of relief? Do you easily fall back into the same habits of your pre-Ramadan self or do you try to uphold some of practices of Ramadan? Do you stop fasting for the whole ...

Outwardly speaking, we can at times engage in identical actions to one another yet our inner motives can be dramatically different. The more one analyses the behaviour of human beings and ponders over their varying activities in life, the more ...

Ibn al-Jawzi stated regarding ‘ishq echoing many that came before him, ‘Ishq is the operation of an empty heart or un-preoccupied heart (qalb faarigh); it is madness; and it leads to anguish or death. Some claim that it is a ...

Ibn al-Qayyim in his book Rawdatul Muhibbeen (The garden of Lovers) dedicates the first part of the book defining the word love (hubb) as well as all other words that have similar meanings. There were approximately 50 words in the ...