Tag: ADAB
Mother’s Day – innovation or Islamic obligation?
For Muslims, every single day is Mother's Day, argues Dr. Izzadeen Chowdhury, in this eye-opening piece that is sure to change the way you look at this festive occasion.
Unscripted #44 | How to act like a Muslim | Ustadh Majed Mahmoud
Ustadh (and Godfather) Majed Mahmoud becomes the latest AlMaghrib Institute instructor to join us on the Unscripted Podcast #44 by Islam21c.
Love for your Brother
Do you truly love for your brother what you love for yourself?
Inverse Dogma
A unique malaise appears to be taking over Muslim twitter; an acceptable form of prejudice against more orthodox factions of the Muslim community...
“You have two qualities beloved to Allāh….”
Sūrat al-Hujurāt | Verse by Verse Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 “As for those” bedouins, coarse by nature and loud by habit “who call out to you” simultaneously raising their voices to the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) and speaking loudly to him as they would to each…
Showing due respect for Allah’s Messenger ﷺ
"Those who subdue their voices when they are with the Messenger of Allāh are people whose hearts Allāh has tested for mindfulness..."
Raise not your voices above the voice of the Prophet ﷺ
"You who have faith! Do not raise your voices above the voice of the Prophet and do not speak loudly to him as you do to one another lest your actions come to nothing without your realising it..."
“I have pardoned every Muslim who has harmed me.”
When the life of Shaykh al-Islām Ibnu Taymiyyah is discussed the focus, many a time, is on the dimensions of his knowledge, his flawless memory, his Jihād, his enjoining of good and forbidding of evil, his trials, his ʿIbādah, his fearlessness and bravery, and his eloquence. But, such discussions often…
The Woman with the Shy Walk
Hot, hungry, thirsty, and fearing for his safety, the Prophet of Allāh Mūsa (ʿalayhi al-Salām) arrives to the city of Madyan. Chased by the Pharonic police of the time, following the innocent killing of a member of the elite Coptic community, Mūsa (ʿalayhi al-Salām) has fled from Egypt enveloped in a state of fear. Gone are the…
A guide to talking about others
"He's a really nice guy": A guide to making compliments in the 21st century ʿUmar (raḍiy Allāhu ʿanhu) once asked about a man who had given testimony, wanting to find out whether anyone could vouch for him. A man said to him: "I will vouch for him, O' Commander of…