Umm Aban bint Utbah
 

She journeyed to Syria and witnessed its opening to Islam with her brother Abu Hashim and her husband Aban ibn Sa'id. She was widowed on the day of the Battle of Ajnadayn. It is said that they were together no more than two nights before she was widowed. Another ...

 {وَأُفَوِّضُ أَمْرِي إِلَى اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ بَصِيرٌ بِالْعِبَادِ} [غافر44]

(Interpretation of the Meaning): "And I entrust my affair to Allah . Indeed, Allah is Seeing of [His] servants."

[Surat Ghafir, Verse 44]

One of the ...

In 1988, I began to work on a Kingdom project with my father, who is a physician who was working in the Kingdom. He was in Kingdom and I was in the United States. That same year I came on a trip to the Kingdom and stayed in Dhahran and visited Al Khobar to further that project. The world here ...

By: Muhammad Hussain Ya'qoub


Overall looks at celebrating the Christmas

All praise is due to Allah the Lord of the worlds. And prayers and peace of Allah be upon the Messenger of Allah, the last Prophet, and his family and companions and whoever followed them till the Day of Judgment.

Dear ...

The Right of Allah, the Almighty

The most essential right that man must fulfill, first: is the right of his creator, cherisher and care taker, Allah, the Almighty, who has the most important rights of all.

Allah, the Almighty, is the king of all kings, the Omnipotent, the just, the Only one, ...

In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful
Praise to Allah solely, and peace and blessings upon whom no prophet is beyond, our prophet Mohamed, and upon his relatives and apostles till the end of days

Dear brother:

Did you ever cry one day?
Did you ever ponder your huge crimes and ...

Often I find myself reflecting upon how blessed I am. The life that I lead now is a world away from the one I expected to lead just a year ago: my first thoughts upon waking in the morning, my imagined path in life, and especially my heart and soul. I would never have dreamt that in less than a ...

The Possessor of Two Lights



Uthman ibn Affan[1] was a man so loved by Prophet Muhammad, may the mercy and blessings of God be upon him, that he was called the possessor of two lights. Uthman was married to Prophet Muhammad's daughter Ruqiayah and when she died, he married Muhammad's other ...

Q: What is the meaning of belief in al-Qadar (the divine will and decree)?.

A: Praise be to Allaah.

Qadar means that Allaah has decreed everything that happens in the universe according to His prior knowledge and the dictates of His wisdom.

Belief in al-Qadar includes four things:

1 - The ...

Repeating the name of Allaah on its own, or the pronoun "Huwa" (He), is a Sufi bid'ah

Q: Is there any harm in repeating the names of Allah SWT?
As zikr, or anything else?
I understand saying "Astagh firullah" or "Subhan Allah" or "Alhamdo Lillah" are ok...

A: Praise be to Allaah.

There is ...