Tag: life
Yusuf Estes
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Since 2012-12-22
Islam
Islam Is - A Complete and Total Way of Life ... more
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Since 2012-12-22
Are we “born to be free”? (part 1 of 2)
A look into how much freedom we really do and don’t have over ourselves and lives. ... more
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Since 2012-12-21
Hope, the lifeline
Sheikh/ Abu Ishaq Al-Heweny
Ibn al-Jawzi said: “Whenever your thirst for desires intensifies, just stretch your fingertips to He Who has all the irrigation. Say: should patience be overwhelmed in these dry years, I’d plead to You to hasten my rescue with water.”
Your lust & ...
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Since 2012-12-13
Poetic Justice: Ibn Taymiyyah's Poem
From it we derive the very methodology by which we live our lives and view this blessed religion of ours. ... more
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Since 2012-12-09
An Advice to University Freshers
...at university, we are caught in a constant struggle between that which our Islamic morals and values call us towards, and that which typical university life tends to promote. ... more
Haitham Al-Haddad
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Since 2012-12-07
The last five minutes of your life
Imagine that you are a passenger and the pilot informs you that you have five minutes before your plane will fatally crash, how would you spend your last 5 minutes?...
In October 1999, the co-pilot of Egyptian Airlines flight 990 said, in the few seconds before his plane crash ...
Continue ReadingImam ibn Qayyim al-Jawzeyya
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Since 2012-12-06
Dead Hearts
Many Muslims today have become so much attached to their life that their desire is to dwell among their family, house, money and commerce. They have forgotten that matters of the Hereafter should come before matters of this life... ... more
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Since 2012-12-06
Be in this life as if you were a stranger or a traveller on a path
Taken from Jami’ al-U’lum wal-Hikam [With the authentication of Salim al-Hilali.
Hadeeth #40:
Ibn Umar (Radhiallahu ‘Anhum) said: «Allaah’s Messenger (Sallallahu ‘Alaihi Wa Sallam) took me by my shoulder and said: “Be in this life as if you were a stranger or a traveller on a path.”
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Since 2012-12-05
Ten Lessons Ibn al-Mubarak Taught Us
‘Abdullah bin al-Mubarak was a scholar known for simultaneously combining numerous traits of virtue. In fact, his friends would sit and count all of the good things that were part of his character and personality. Adh-Dhahabi related that they said: “Let’s sit and count the good traits ...
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Since 2012-12-05
Eight Things to Learn
Shaqiq Al-Balkhi advice to Hatim [Al-Assam, his student]
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Azhari Ahmed Mahmoud
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Since 2012-11-27
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Since 2012-11-27
Your Provision for Leaving
My dear brother: we need so much to have a reflective pause about the fact of death; this bitter fact by which man leaves one life to another and departs from one home to another. ... more