Self-imposed isolation This past week has been strange, to say the least. We are living in unprecedented times. My family and I spent a week apart (some 200miles away) so I have been living in a kind of ‘self-imposed’ isolation for a week. Second, I missed (deliberately) my first Jumu’ah since I could remember and […]
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The universe of man Man is the meeting point between the celestial and the earthly realms. He has a unique position in this world that is not given to any other species. When he looks towards the horizon, he sees with two eyes: the eye of sight and the eye of insight, the eye of […]
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يس – وَالْقُرْءَانِ الْحَكِيمِ Ya Sin. By the Qur’an, full of wisdom [Ya-Sin: 36:2]. Allah takes an oath in the Qur’an which is full of wisdom, for it is the uncreated speech of the All-wise. Indeed, the Qur’an is alive with a soul of its own. It enlivens the hearts and minds of the people […]
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“Each Ayah of the Qur’an is not just a verse but a universe. A universe of unending knowledge, learning and meaning.” بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَـنِ الرَّحِيمِ In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Al-Suhrawardi [1] captures with great eloquence and insight when he said: “All of the knowledge of previous scriptures are […]
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The Qur’an is an unending source of knowledge to derive learning and seek its counsel, Divine Speech says: – “If all the trees on Earth were pens, and the ocean were ink, replenished by seven more oceans, the words of Allah could not be exhausted” [Luqman: 31:27]. This Qur’an, the beginningless eternal Speech of Allah, […]
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