Tag Archives: LIFE

Yā Sīn takes the believer on a voyage of endless lessons. It begins by confirming the veracity of the Messenger (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam), leaving no doubt, and outlines his purpose. It provides stories of those who passed and ...

Of the branding levelled at worshippers of the Al Mighty is that they are ‘backward’, incapable of intellectualising, ‘brought up to accept’ a Deity or forcefully separated from their own cognition. But in a world that demands a beginning to ...

Expelled, then washed off or thrown away. It is such a despised fluid, and yet it is the biological building block of the human. That same human will grow to contempt from where he emerged, almost instinctively belittling his own ...

Articulating a compassionate and intelligent case for Islam in a post-secular society is quite difficult. Due to an increase in materialism, the value of religion has diminished. One way of starting a conversation is to get people thinking about the ...

After declaring that had He wished He could blind and deform them, Abū Hayyan explains how Allāh turns their attention to a sign that points to the truth of this declaration. Growing into old age. For, every one of them, ...

  “Whoever kills a soul it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if he had saved mankind entirely.“[1] All three Abrahamic faiths share the idea that life is sacred and ...

  Having listed His blessings on land, sea and in the universe, one is left to wonder at the extent of heedlessness held by those who obstinately remain to surrender to other than Him given their dependence on Him from ...

The A to Z of Death Part 2 Click here for part 1 | Click here for part 3 Wanting to die Suicide is strictly prohibited in Islām and is unanimously counted amongst the mortal sins (kabāʾir). وَلَا تَقْتُلُوا أَنفُسَكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ ...

The A to Z of Death Part 1 Click here for part 2 | Click here for part 3 It is reported that one of the great scholars and ascetics of the past, Yazīd al-Riqāshī had a rhetorical conversation with himself, ‘Woe ...