Raise your words
Raise your words, not your voice. It’s rain which grows flowers, not thunder! Maulana Jalaluddin Rumi
Read moreImagine
Imagine yourself after you pass awayImagine your grave through night and through dayWishing that you did not do as they sayWishing that you had got up and had prayed. Imagine, my friends, the day that you diedImagine all of the tears that they criedRemember how it felt when your body was tiedRemember how it felt in the grave which you lied. Imagine the day you’ll be called to accountImagine the sum to which your life will amountThink for a moment
Read moreAllah’s Mercy
Imam Raazi rahmatullahi alayhi has written a story narrated by a pious person. The person narrated, “One evening I was walking along the riverbank, suddenly my eyes fell upon a scorpion walking in front of me. A thought occurred to me that this is also the Creation of Allah Ta’ala and Allah Ta’ala has created it out of some wisdom and reason. I did not know where it was coming from and where it was going to, or where it’s
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Don’t spoil what you have
Do not spoil what you already have, by desiring that which you do not. Remember what you have now was once among the things you only hoped for. Be grateful to Allah for all you have!
Read moreLife is a Garden
Life is a garden,Good friends are the flowers,And times spent together,Life’s happiest hours;And friendship, like flowers,Blooms ever more fairWhen carefully tendedBy dear friends who care;And life’s lovely gardenWould be sweeter by farIf all who passed through itWere as nice as you are.
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Hour of Accepted Dua on Jumuah
Rasulullah (Allah bless him & give him peace) said: “There is such an hour on Friday that if any Muslim makes dua in it, his dua will definitely be accepted. ” [Bukhari, Muslim] The ulama have differed in specifying that hour which has been mentioned in the Hadith. Shaykh Abdul Haq Muhaddith Dehlawi rahmatullahialayh has mentioned 40 different opinions in his book Sharh Sifrus Sa’aadah. However, from among all these opinions he has given preference to two opinions: (1) That
Read moreBusiness with Allah
Money has very little to do with it, otherwise all the rich would be blissfully happy and the poor totally miserable. Money can buy medicines but not health, acquaintances but not friends, servants but not faithfulness, food but not appetite. Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (SAW) has very aptly said that : “Riches are not from an abundance of worldly goods, but from a contented mind.” With all the scientific and technological advancement, man is still living a life of continued misery
Read moreWhen entering someone’s home
When entering somebody’s home look after your eyes and tongue.
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Zubaydah, the Empress
Umm Ja’far, Zubaydah was the darling queen of fifth Abbasid Caliph Harun ar-Rashid (170H, 786 A.D to 193H, 809 A.D). Her name was Amatul Aziz but she came to be known as Zubaydah. Her grandfather Abu Ja’far Mansur who had endearly named her Zubaydah, made very special arrangements for her education. Very competent and highly qualified teachers and scholars were hired. Zubaydah, herself was very intelligent and right-minded. She obtained education with great interest and developed an attachment with the
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