Let's bring ourselves to account before we are brought to account as Prophet Muhamamd peace be upon him said. Let's work hard and do good so as our good deeds scale overweights our bad deeds.
Bring Yourself to Account
Has any of us ever thought of recording the good and the bad things we...
Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him said: "The two feet of a slave will not move on the Day of Resurrection until he is asked about his lifetime where did he spend it? His knowledge what did he do with it? His wealth from where did he earn it and on what did he spend it? And his body how...
Let's not waste our time with doing nothing. Let's seize every breath in doing something good that will benefit us and benefit others.
Your Time is Your Asset
Work is the vocation of the living; idleness is death.
Time idly wasted, according to Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim, is even more severe...
One of the basics of Islam is to believe in the destiny and what Allah has decreed for us whether it's good or bad. Allah is our Creator and He is the best one to decide for us since He knows what's good for us and what's bad for us.
Nothing Will Happen Unless Decreed by Allah
The feeling...
Let's change what is within so that it reflects without. Let's think positive in order to lead a healthy and good life.
Your Life Is the Product of Your Thoughts
Happiness or misery, peace or anxiety springs from within.
You alone color your life bright or dark, the same way as a glass takes...
Let's make use of the present day in doing what will return with benefit to us tomorrow.
Live Within the Limits of Your Day
It is wrong to burden your day with worries of tomorrow.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand. ...
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Muslims believe the Torah is the book of God revealed to Prophet Moses peace be upon him. However we believe that Torah that exists today is not the same as the original one that was revealed to Prophet Moses pbuh.
Life is so short, so why wasting our present by dwelling in sorrow? May our dear Allah grant us happiness in this life and the hereafter. And may He take sorrow away from everyone's heart.
Get Rid of Sorrow
Why do you look so sad? What is the point of sorrow in your life? Are you living...
The mercy of Allah encompasses everything and His mercy towards His creation is infinite. We need just to make a step forward and towards Him so as to gain His endless and everlasting blessings.
The True Rebirth
Curious why people do not soar towards their Lord, on the wings of longing...
Renew Your Life is an interesting and inspiring book written by the eminent scholar Sheikh Mohammed Al-Ghazali which I would like to share with you here..
Renew Your Life
Often, when we want to start a new page in our life, we tie such a wish to some favorable circumstances in the unknown...
The Sunnah is very important in a Muslim's life. And the Sunnah goes hand in hand with the Quran, for the Sunnah is also a revelation. The Sunnah is there to teach us the rituals and gives all the details needed to practice Islam well and as prescribed by God.
Here is an article about the...
Dhikr Purifies the Hearts
The importance of dhikr then is not difficult to understand. It is dhikr that purifies your qalb or heart and makes it sound. And you can only attain salvation and true success by having a pure and sound heart.
The qalb or heart referred to here is not the pump in...
A Life of Remembrance (Part 1)
by Khurram Murad
A Muslim Scholar & Writer
In a verse of the Quran that I love very much, Allah, Most Gracious and Loving, commends:
{Remember Me and I shall remember you. Be grateful unto Me and deny Me not.} (Al-Baqarah 2:152.)
Can you imagine a more...
Ascending in Certainty
As for being secure from trouble and deviation and gaining peace, these are the fruits that God causes certainty to yield.
As referred to in some verses of the Quran, Sufis classify certainty in three categories:
- Certainty coming from knowledge: having a strong, firm...
How to reach the level of al yaqin (certainty) in one's faith? this is what will see in this article by the great Turkish Muslim intellectual, Fethullah Gulen.
How to Reach the Level of Certainty in Faith
By Fethullah Gülen
Yaqin (certainty) means having no doubt about the truth of a...
Hardship: An Open Book Test (Part 2)
When a professor gives you an exam, he hands you the exam and then he steps back and watches. He steps back to see are you going to fail, are you going to pass, and maybe he even wants you to fail.
Now let me ask you this, when youre in an examination...
I want to post in this thread stories and articles about how to strenghten one's faith. In this first post I am sharing the story of a reverter who has been striving to increase and grow in faith.
The Story of My Struggle to Win Back My Faith
by Raya Shokatfard
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Hardships: Path to The Most Merciful (Part 1)
The topic today is about Hardship and the Path to the Most Merciful.
And the reason why I like that topic title is because a lot of times we connect hardship to punishment, we connect hardship to a wrathful or punishing type person or thing.
We...