Travelling Du’a: Unveiling The Secret
سُبْحَانَ الَّذِي سَخَّرَ لَنَا هَذَا، وَمَا كُنَّا لَهُ مُقْرِنِينَ، وَإِنَّا إِلَى رَبِّنَا لَمُنْقَلِبُون “Glory be to the One Who has subjected this [transport], for we could never have accomplished this (by ourselves)], and indeed to Our Lord we will surely return” [Al-Zukhruf: 43:13-14]. This is a Du’a from the blessed Qur’an we say when we […]
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Aiming for the sky
Blue sky thinking says: ‘The sky is the limit’. As great and wonderful this saying is, it is still limiting. The Qur’an is a book which has been sent to free the mind and soul from our limiting constructs and conceptions to the expanse of the realm of the Infinite. ‘The sky is the limit’, they […]
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The Wise Qur’an
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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Who are you?
Imagine Imagine yourself in a quiet and serene location, with open skies, among nature away from people. Perhaps you are on an empty beach, with your feet resting on soft white sand with turquoise water, and the sound of the waves gently breaking upon the shore whilst you look out unto the horizon. Perhaps you […]
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A hidden universe: the secret of the dot of ب of Basmallah
“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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Unending source of knowledge
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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Awakened to the reality of returning
There is a time in a person’s life when the void of separation, the emptiness of lack of belonging and the longing for completeness awakens him to the reality of the Covenant he made with God. The realisation of the secret that lies within him and the unique relationship he has with God dawns upon […]
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Everything is on a journey
In this moment of stillness, right this very second, you and the ground beneath your feet hurtled through space by a distance of 19 miles (as the Earth orbited around the sun at 67,000 mph). From the sub-atomic world of atoms to the macroscopic world of the living creatures, everything is in a state of […]
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