The tailbone, the last bone at the end of the backbone is the part of the human body that is never lost. As in, it does not decompose completely in the ground. Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) said: “All of sons of Adam (men) will decay except for the coccyx (tailbone). From […]
The tongue is very small and light but it can take you to the greatest heights and it can put you in the lowest depths. -Imam Al-Ghazali And as the saying goes: Watch your thoughts they become your words, watch your words they become your action and watch your action […]
Sh. Hamza Yusuf on Islam, The Road to Submission There is MY Islam, as an individual trying to implement in my life the ideals of Islam and using my life as an opportunity to improve my state of submission and that takes a lifetime of work. Each day of our […]
“You shall not accept information, unless you verify it for yourself. I have given you the hearing, the eyesight, and the brain, and you are responsible for using them.” [Quran 8:22] The idea that religion suppresses free thought and encourages blind belief certainly is by no means, representative of the […]
I fell in love with Islam in one morning, it was 6.00 am when instead of practicing meditation on my yoga mat I practiced on my prayer mat. It was an unusual and an unexpected behaviour. A behaviour that hasn’t visited in more than a decade. Praise be to The […]
1 of Allah’s 99 Most Beautiful Names is The Originator (The Absolute Cause). The One who originates, commences, invents and creates all that exists, without any model or material. “Originator of the heavens and the earth. When He decrees a matter, He only says to it, “Be”, and it is.” […]
Reflections from Imam Al Ghazali’s book – “Revival of Islamic Sciences’ Self-knowledge begins with the awareness/ recognition of one’s innate attributes: beastial, angelic, irrational & lustful to name a few. Al-Ghazali writes that knowledge can either be innate or acquired. He divides acquired #knowledge into phenomenal (material world) and #spiritual […]
HAHA • Cheese ! Alright so now I am a #Rumi Wannabe; striving for #Divine #Love The human #heart has the capacity to directly perceive the #spiritual #nature of reality, to witness the qualities and signs of #God in the theater of #manifest life, and yet too often we chase […]
By: Al-Ghazali, a Muslim theologian, jurist, philosopher, and mystic of Persian descent. Know that the #body is like a town and the intellect of the mature human being is like a king ruling that town. All the forces of the external and internal senses he can muster are like his […]
