Remembering Allah The Prophet Muhammad (salallahu alaihi wasallam) narrated: “Allah says, ‘I am to my servant as he expects of Me, I am with him when he remembers Me. If he remembers Me in his heart, I remember him to Myself, and if he remembers me in an assembly I mention him in an assembly...
“Abdullah bin Umro bin Aas, may Allah be pleased with him, reports that the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, said: Those who have mercy will receive the mercy of the Most Merciful. Have mercy on those who are on earth, the One in heavens will have mercy on you.” (Tirmidhi ). The Prophet of Allah,...
The Prophet Muhammad said in a famous hadeeth, narrated by ‘Imraan bin Husayn : “Verily the best among you (to follow) is my generation (the Messenger Muhammad and his Companions , then those who follow, and then those who follow them…” (Saheeh Muslim, the Virtues of the Sahaabah, chapter 52 hadeeth no. 2535) From...
Note: Islam is criticized for allowing polygamy, for popular culture in the West views polygamy as relatively backward and impoverished. For many Christians, it is a license to promiscuity, and feminists consider it a violation of women’s rights and demeaning to women. A crucial point that needs to be understood is that for Muslims, standards...
Iyaad ibn Himaar al Mujaashi’ee (radiyallaahu ;anhu) said : Allaah’s Messenger (salallaahu ‘alaihi wa’sallam) said ( which means): Indeed my Lord ordered me to teach you that which you do not know, from that which He taught me this day, (instructing me): ‘The wealth which I confer upon a servant is all lawful for...
Allaah has described the Noble Qur’aan with a number of magnificient characteristics of which Ibn Qudaamah mentioned eight in points 27 – 30 of Lum‘atul-I‘tiqaad. They are as follows: 1. That it is clear (mubeen) and makes clear the laws and reports which it contains. 2. That it is Allaah’s firm rope (Hablullaah), that is, it is...
As mentioned towards the end of the last article, we will be discussing the various characteristics of the people of Jannah (Paradise) mentioned in the Qur’an, and we have particularly selected two passages from the Qur’an which give many of the important qualities of the people of Paradise. We will mainly be taking a...
By Ali Zohery, Ph.D. The Prophet was recognized, even by the Quraish of Mekkah, his worst enemies, who called him by the name of as-Sadiq (the truthful) and al-Amin (the trustworthy) long before his Prophet hood because of his honest and truthful dealings as a trader. But the titles al-Amin and as-Sadiq do not simply...
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How It All Began Nearly four thousand years ago, in the Sumerian town of Ur in the valley of the river Euphrates, lived a young man named Abraham. The people of Ur had once worshipped Allah but as time passed they forgot the true religion and started praying to idols, statues made of wood or...
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