The Missing Ingredients: Compassion and Gentleness
By any means Islam is about compulsion. Be a Muslim. Be the embodiment of compassion and mercy. Learn the message…
Read More »Remember Allah and Get It All
Want to overcome heart aches, release your pain, master your fears and worries? Who doesn't? What have you tried to manage such feelings and problems?
Read More »Islam’s Care for People with Special Needs
Caring for the disabled is a collective obligation; if done by some is dropped from others, and if no member of the society does it, then the whole society is sinned.
Read More »The Greatest Bounty of God: For Whom?
Form all God’s servants, there’re chosen ones, and from those chosen there’re those who deserve the greatest favors of God. Who might they be and what are they granted and why?
Read More »Niqab: A Barrier to Integration?
Integration is a two-way process, while assimilation is a one-way process. What is regrettable is that it is the voices within the Muslim community that are the most vocal advocates of assimilation.
Read More »Kindness to People
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “Allah has decreed kindness in all things.” (Muslim) So, one should extend kindness to all people, even non-Muslims.
Read More »Islam and the Pursuit of Worldly Knowledge
Why should I pursue worldly knowledge if it does not benefit me in the Hereafter? If such studies stand in the way of getting closer to God, then why does Islam back and call for pursing them?
Read More »The Fitrah We All Are Born in
How come if the child were left alone, it would grow up a Muslim by nature? What does this state of fitrah mean?
Read More »True Purity of the Heart
Do you have a sound heart and what does it truly mean to have that heart? Just ponder on what the Qur’an reveals about people’s hearts…
Read More »Don’t Belittle sins
If we say that sins are dangerous, then belittling sins and taking them lightly is more dangerous than sinning itself. The Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) warned us against taking sins lightly because, doing so, sins will become an inherent habit in us and we will have no problem insisting on them. This […]
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