Test The One You Want To Befriend

Test The One You Want To Befriend

I had friends and close companions whose friendship I was proud of; after some time I noticed that they did not fulfil what friendship...
Humility of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA)

Humility of ‘Ali ibn Abi Talib (RA)

From the Qur'anic character which is embodied in the personality of Commander of the Faithfuls, 'Ali ibn Abi Taalib (ra), is the character of...
Cultural Islam And Islamic Civilization

Cultural Islam And Islamic Civilization

A though the West recognizes Islam as the only civilization capable of opposing its dominance, the Muslim world today is incapable of meeting the...
Breaking The Desire of the Stomach and the Private Parts

Breaking The Desire of the Stomach and the Private Parts

The desire of the stomach is of the greatest of the destructive vices, and it is what caused Adam (AS) to be expelled from...
The Sweetness of Good Deeds and the Warning of Bad Deeds

The Sweetness of Good Deeds and the Warning of Bad Deeds

All that Allah has created in this worldly life is just a model of what exists in the Hereafter. The process by which this...
Hadith and Sunnah by Muhammad Asad

Muhammad Asad’s View On The Hadith And Sunnah

Many reform proposals have been advanced during the last decades, and many spiritual doctors have tried to devise a patent medicine for the sick...
The Inward Rules Of The Zakah

The Inward Rules Of The Zakah

Know that he who seeks the road of the Afterlife through the zakah has certain duties to fulfil. These are as follows: THE FIRST DUTY...
Islam is One of Allah's Favours to Mankind

Islam is One of Allah’s Favours to Mankind

I contemplated the statement of Allah, يَمُنُّونَ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ أَسْلَمُوا۟ ۖ قُل لَّا تَمُنُّوا۟ عَلَىَّ إِسْلَـٰمَكُم ۖ بَلِ ٱللَّهُ يَمُنُّ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنْ هَدَىٰكُمْ لِلْإِيمَـٰنِ إِن...
Pleasures Of This World Are Connected With Calamities and Darkness

Pleasures Of This World Are Connected With Calamities and Darkness

I envisaged myself looking at the pleasures of men in the world and forgetting how they were acquired them, together with the calamities that...
The Status of the People of Badr

The Status of the People of Badr

The Prophet (peace be upon him) said to 'Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), "Who knows, perhaps Allah has looked at the warriors...