For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives. People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate [...]
Imam Shafi’i said something to the effect of… “I would only enter a debate with someone if I was certain the truth would end up on their lips.” I’ve reached a point where I find no value in arguing with anyone about the deen, and I spend very little time with people who do. [...]
Sh Hamza Yusuf wrote a popular book, translating and explaining a classical Islamic spiritual text, called ‘Purification Of The Heart’. It’s an excellent book and there are very few like it available in English. It breaks down each of the psycho-spiritual diseases of the human heart and then goes into practical cures for each of [...]
This is a fascinating distinction made by the Shaykh. We are in the first 10 days of Dhul Hijjah, so… Now is a great time to focus more on dhikr, prayer, and fasting. Check it out…
There are like a million conversion stories on Youtube, but this one caught my eye because it was on my brother’s FaceBook page, and I was cracking up all the way through. What I really loved about it though, was the role the Quran played in the story – it inspired me to go pick [...]
“And nothing is equivalent to It” (112:4) Imagine ‘God’. Go ahead, close your eyes right now, and imagine “God” or “Allah” or whatever you’re used to calling It. What do you see? When you really concentrate, and attempt to visualise the One that created all that is, what do you see? A bright light? The [...]
So, why do most Quran-readers use the pronoun ‘He’ to describe the Almighty? Well, there are a few reasons I can think of – perhaps you can comment below to give me your take on this. The first reason we’ve made ‘Allah’ into a ‘He’ is that the earliest translations of the Quran into English had [...]
