Tag: MISGUIDANCE

The Disability of Misguidance

How would you picture the physical state of misguidance? Is it merely to embrace another opinion, a state within the spectrum of freedom of thought, or something without a picture? Whatever we imagine, it is limited by the degree of our own guidance. The extent of its severity can only

A Contract Every One of us Signed

Man oscillates between preoccupation, entertainment, beautification and competition, working harder in pursuit of comfort and growing older in pursuit of life. If without an ultimate purpose, man works in pursuit of continuity of life, then lives in pursuit of continuity of work. Without an ultimate purpose, he wanders in circles,

Are Non-Believers Truly Happy?

When is 'this' promise? they asked mockingly and in haste. If it erupted whilst they quibbled and scorned, how much laughter could they exhibit and how many tears will they shed? What are they really waiting for, is life just a game or will every spectacle of a deed or

Devil’s Drop Box

How long does it take for the first notions of paganism to spread and become manifest? Will we actually be able to recognise that they have spread? Have they already spread? It actually took five centuries for pure paganism to spread to all Arabia before the advent of Islām. Arabia

From Kufr to Īmān: Guidance and Honour of the Righteous

  Say, "To Allāh belongs the east and the west. He guides whom He wills to a straight path." 2:142 In Part 1, ‘From Īmān to Kufr: The Rise & Fall of the ‘Pious’’, I stated that there were not many examples of Muslims apostatising, be it historically or in

From Īmān to Kufr: Rise & Fall of the ‘Pious’

Part 1 | From Īmān to Kufr: The Rise & Fall of the 'Pious'  “So after the truth, what else can there be, save error? How then are you turned away?” Whilst the numbers of those apostatising from Islām are far less than in any other religion, it is nonetheless

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Strangeness

With the Name of Allāh, the All-Merciful, the Most Merciful My Lord, facilitate matters through Your mercy. On the authority of Ibn Masʿūd, the Messenger of Allāh (sall Allāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam) said, “Islām began as something strange and it will return to being something strange, so Tuba to the strangers.” It

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Justice (Inṣāf)

Allāh, Exalted is He, says, “You of faith! Be upholders of justice, bearing witness for Allāh Alone, even against yourselves or your parents and relatives. Whether they are rich or poor, Allāh is more worthy of both. Do not follow your own desires and deviate from the truth; if you