In the Name of Allaah, the Most Merciful, may His Salaah and Salaam Be upon His Messenger Muhammad, to proceed:

On the authority of Aboo Hurayrah (radhiyallaahu 'anhu), the Prophet (sallallaahu 'alayhe wa sallam) said:

" The strong believer is better and more beloved to Allaah than the weak ...

Compiled from the works of Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali, Ibn Al-Qayyim
al-Jawziyya, and Abu Hamid al-Ghazali.

SINCERITY


Sincerity is the freeing of one's intentions from all
impurities in order to come nearer to Allah. It is to
ensure that the intentions behind all acts of worship and
...

Imam Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah

Man always looks for what benefits him and what protects him from harm. However, to accomplish this, man must be able to realize what is harmful. He must then know whom he should need, trust, and love so that he can attain what is beneficial as well as to feel ...

Sheikh Salman al-Oadah

The individual is, without doubt, a part of society and an essential aspect of the Islamic way of life.

Allah says: "You began to say: Whence is this? Say: It is from yourselves." [Sûrah Âl `Imrân: 165]

Allah also tells us: "Truly, Allah does not change the ...

By Sheikh Salman al-Oadah

All of us have to wrestle with the emotion of anger, an emotion that flares up and tests a person's ability to control himself and keep himself from stooping to the level of the one who wronged him.

There are reasons why some people can keep their composure ...

Sheikh Salman al-Oadah

Young women have many hopes and dreams. Among the most important of these dreams focus upon their future husbands, the men who are going to be their partners through the long and arduous journey of life. Some girls want their husbands to be young and handsome. Others ...

Softly reading
Al Quran
Child rises
From his
slumber
To see
Mother
Sitting, reading
With
Beautiful voice.
Softly reading
While others
Sleep
Child rests
His head
On her.
She strokes
His hair
Softly gently
While reading
Al Quraan
With
Beautiful
Soft voice.

by
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I see a tear rolling down
my little sister's cheek
because she is in pain
and struggles every step she takes.
It is true that sometimes
people look twice at her
and she wants the ground to swallow her
because she feels ashamed
of not being able to run free
or to go about as we do.
She thinks ...

We all have something in our lives to overcome,
It doesn't have to stop us from having fun,
Whatever hurdle gets put in my path, it's Allah's Blessing.

For me, it's my body, which tends to go on strike,
The hurts, the aches, get to me most at night,
However strong the pain may be, it's ...

Open your eyes, 

See His Signs,

They are clear,

As clear as a sunset.

Don't be blind,

Open your eyes,

To what He has Created.

He is One,

Lord of all,

The Creator of this sunset. 

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Little boys and girls
Withering like flower petals
Parents look at them with tearless eyes
Slow creeping hunger and thirst crawls like a snake
Then came the news
The wall is down
thousands crossed into Rafah, the other Rafah
I see my mother opening a bag of flour
Perhaps our flowers will smile ...