How would you like your story to be and how would you like it to end? A common practice is to write your obituary. * Allah Most High tells us about the creation of human, which just a few years back was scientifically proven and in complete accuracy with the Quranic description of […]
‘I warn you against him and there was no prophet but warned his nation against him. No doubt, but I tell you something which no other prophet told his people. You should know that he is one-eyed.’ – Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) He will command the sky to rain and it […]
A man who preached about kindness towards animals, plants, earth and all living things can not be a man who spread Islam by the sword. He (peace be upon him) had mercy and compassion even unto his enemies, because as God tells us, as well as our tradition shows us, […]
Expressions of Divine Love through the language of poetry is a familiar concept in the religion of Islam. Stories of mystics whom spent their life adoring the Beloved are a few of my falling in love stories with Allah. To achieve love for God beyond hope and fear, a love […]
A short story on the Prophet Muhammad’s (pbuh) high character and thoughtfulness. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “[It happens that] I start the prayer intending to prolong it, but on hearing the cries of a child, I shorten the prayer because I know that the cries of the […]
Is our existence dependent on our visible body? A corpse possesses the same, but it does not have life. In fact, it doesn’t take long for the body to give signs of it decomposing. Looking at a dead person, you see that their soul has departed, it is lifeless. If […]
‘Life is a temporary loan, and this world is nothing but a sketchy imitation of Reality. Only children would mistake a toy for the real thing. And yet human beings either become infatuated with the toy or disrespectfully break it and throw it aside. In this life stay away from […]
2 of Allah’s name are ‘Al-Qabid’ (The Constrictor: Contracts) and ‘Al-Basit’ (The Munificent: Expands), and we can witness these 2 attributes in ourselves and in the manifest world. Islamic tradition states that everything is expanding and contracting: the heart, the lungs, the pupils, the universe, the corals, .. Under water, […]
Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem. The Arabic term ‘Islam’ means to submit or to surrender and the root meaning, salima is to be whole and it’s a cognate of the Hebrew word shalom, which is related to the same idea. Shalom in Hebrew means wholeness. The idea of peace is a wholeness […]
