Are You on The Straight?
“Guide us on the straight path.” [Al-Fatiha: 1:6] Clarity is a priority in any endeavour Clarity is a fundamental feature on this path, as the lack of it leads to confusion and stagnation. Every day we ask Allah at least seventeen times in our Salah to “guide us on the straight path” [Al-Fatiha: 1:6]. The straight path […]
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You’re As Good As The Company You Keep
“A person is measured by the company he keeps, like one pair of shoes placed next to another.” [Imam Ali] Choosing good companions Companionship is of great importance, we are social creatures and cannot do without the interaction with people. Companionship is essential for us, and we have a good example in the relationship between the Messenger […]
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Who is an Authentic Shaykh?
“Indeed, this knowledge is the basis of the Religion! So look carefully towards whom you take your Religion from.” [Umar Ibn Al-Khattab] Knowledge is taken from people Knowledge is a profession, and every profession has its experts. Islamic knowledge is taken from a Shuyukh – from the chest of people who received it, who were enlightened […]
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The Circle of Love – Divine Love
“My servant does not draw near to Me with anything more loved to Me than the obligation I have enjoined upon him. And My servant continues to draw near to me with Nafil (supererogatory) deeds until I Love him. When I Love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, and his sight with […]
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Love on the 14th of February
February has traditionally been a month of romance where couples declare their ‘undying’ love for one another with perhaps a dozen red roses, confectionery gifts and romantic gestures on Valentine’s Day. The origins Legend has it that the origin of this lover’s day (on the 14th of February) goes back as early as 270 A.D. and […]
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Salah – Our Ascent to Allah
The excellence of Salah Abu Hurairah narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: “Do you think that if there was a river by the gate of one of you, and he bathed in it five times each day that there would remain any filth on him?” They said: “No filth would stay on him.” He […]
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Bound by Love
Enslaved by love “Love can make a freed man a slave, shacked and bound. Love can make an intelligent man appear as a fool, irrational and reckless.” When true love (Ishq) takes hold of a person, the lover becomes blind and deaf to the world except to his beloved to such an extent, even the […]
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Provision and Service
“You are a combination of limitedness, weakness, need and poverty. With the eye of limitedness you look at His perfection, with your eye of poverty you witness His Richness and Mercy, with your weakness you acknowledge His Power and Might and through your needs you realise His variant blessings and bounties. Thus servant-hood is your […]
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Our Greatest Honour
“Amongst the attributes of your human nature, draw away from everything that is incompatible with your servanthood, so that you may be responsive to the call of Allah and near His Presence.” [Hikam|34] The honour of servanthood Allah has ennobled the children of Adam with honour to be the best amongst His creation. And amongst the […]
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Who is Allah?
Allah, there is no God but Allah. He is the First without a beginning and Eternal without an End. Allah, there is non like Him Allah is known by His beautiful Names and Attributes with which He has described Himself, besides this, His Nature is beyond our comprehension for no one truly knows Allah other […]
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