“Push” I yelled. My request was met with a stern glare. I needed a different tact. The Rocky theme tune started playing in my head, channeling the Italian Stallion with a dash of Mr Miyagi I took my wife’s hand ...
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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[1] “who call out to you” simultaneously raising their voices to the Prophet (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) ...
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"Those who subdue their voices when they are with the Messenger of Allāh are people whose hearts Allāh has tested for mindfulness..."
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"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..."
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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 ...
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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) ...
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“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 ...
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The Importance of Giving Sincere Advice in Islām Giving naṣīḥah (sincere advice) enjoys a sublime and exalted position in Islām, and how could this not be the case since it is a concept that is found many times in the ...
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Islam21c Articulating Islam in the 21st Century
