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461 articles — page 15 of 20
Wisdoms & Insights
155 articlesQur'anic, educational reflections carrying the verse to the heart.
Where Is the Flaw? When Trial Comes with No Apparent Cause
A youth who had been expelled from his home sat with him and asked: where is the flaw? The answer was a method of looking at affliction: search for causes so long as the frame is human, and submission to Allah's wisdom when the matter goes beyond causes, with the story of Yūsuf, peace be upon him, as witness. Then a reminder that man's first function is being Allah's servant, and that work done with the intention of servitude is recorded as good deeds.
The Companion Abdullah ibn Umar
Scenes from the life of Abdullah ibn Umar, may God be pleased with them both: his dream and the Prophet's testimony about him, his generosity, spending and freeing of slaves, with pauses on dream interpretation, hospitality and the meaning of charity.
Shaping the Future
How did the Companions shape their future? Through Muṣʿab ibn ʿUmayr, Abū Ayyūb, ʿUtba ibn Ghazwān and Saʿīd ibn ʿĀmir, two questions for each of us: do we want to shape the future, and are we ready to give?
Trial Itself Is a Provision: Allah Is Subtle with His Servants
He begins with two incidents of afflicted children, then recalls ʿUmar's saying on being thankful for affliction, and gives examples of hidden mercy within trials: an illness that protects from immorality, and scarcity of money that protects a child from drugs. He concludes with Allah's words ﴿اللَّهُ لَطِيفٌ بِعِبَادِهِ يَرْزُقُ مَن يَشَاءُ﴾ ("Allah is Subtle with His servants; He provides for whom He wills"), drawing that affliction is in itself provision.
Repentance Before Ḥajj: Even Those Not Written to Perform It Can Take Part
Repentance is the first thing asked of the pilgrim before his journey, and one kept back by an excuse shares it with him. Then the movement from individual repentance to the repentance of the family and society.
The Last Ten Nights: The Deal of a Lifetime
On the threshold of the last ten nights of Ramadan, the khutbah weighs what we lose and gain by withdrawing from the world, and finds the Prophet's two efforts in these nights: iʿtikāf and generosity. It ends with zakāt al-fiṭr.
The First Moments in Paradise and What We Have Prepared for Them
The first moments in Paradise: meeting loved ones, angels, and Companions, and the two questions "why do you live, and with whom." Then what we have prepared for it in Ramadan.
A Khatira from “The Character of the Muslim”: The Chapter on Moderation and Chastity
A reading and commentary on the chapter «Moderation and Chastity» from al-Ghazālī's «The Character of the Muslim» ahead of Ramadan: joining the needs of the spirit, the self and the body, and how the believer's view of this world and the next differs from the disbeliever's; it ends with the traits of a Muslim who is slave neither to his stomach, nor to his desire, nor to the dirham.
Three Men in the Cave
The story of the three men trapped in a cave, each freed by calling on Allah through a sincere deed: dutifulness to parents, restraint from sin, and honesty in what is owed. The speaker draws lessons about friends, generations working together, and raising children in the masjid.
Hurricanes in America
How should a Muslim read the hurricanes that strike the country he lives in? The verses of warning, the difference between discipline, punishment and revenge, the Prophet's ﷺ address to his people with mercy rather than gloating, and a call to bring our children to the Friday prayer.
Harmony of Hearts and the Security of Society
The hadith qudsi on those who love one another for God's sake, and that the first benefit of harmony is the security of society and the tranquility of the soul, illustrated by the example of a contented farmer.
The Harmony of Hearts: Kinship and Brotherhood
The lecture moves from the meaning of kinship to the brotherhood of Medina, the generosity of the Ansar and the self-sufficiency of the Muhajirun, then the devil's stirring of discord, with which he is content in place of worship.
The World Is Left Suddenly: What We Send Ahead Before the Step
This world is like vegetation that flourishes and is suddenly harvested, and death comes without warning so that we wish for a respite we did not seize; the story of the man with Sulaymān, peace be upon him; and it closes with the proverb «Measure where your foot will land before you step» and the weighing of deeds in Allah's balance.
Gratitude in Islam Is a Way of Life
Thanksgiving and Black Friday as a way into the meaning of gratitude in Islam: courtesy toward the Giver, the stages of gratitude and a practical step toward the house of Allah, followed by a second sermon on the law of mutual repelling, taking the means, and a warning against waste.
Benefits of Hajj in Islam (1)
The yearning of hearts for the Sacred House, the variety of acts of worship as a mercy from God, placing God's will before the self's, the condition of ability, and the reward of the one held back by an excuse.
What After Ramadan? (1)
Death is nearer than a sandal strap, and this world is the shade of a tree under which a rider rests and moves on; what remains of Ramadan is a servitude we cannot do without, the six days of Shawwāl, and the balance of body and soul.
Imamship & Leadership
30 articlesCrafting the imam and the caller, the daʿwah household, and the fiqh of reform and steadfastness.
Issues of the Imam
Children of the Imams: Between Grace and Trial
In the imam's house there are two worlds: one people see, and one only the family knows. His children are the bridge between two realms — carrying, while still small, what grown men do not, living the paradox of the "impoverished eminence," the trial of identity, and the inheritance of mistakes… yet emerging from this school with fruits no one else can pluck.
The House of Daʿwah: Between the Inherited Image and the Human Reality
In the imagination of the community, the daʿwah household is inhabited by a flat, inherited image that cannot bear humanity. Yet the Qurʾān itself opened the windows of the Prophetic household onto hunger, jealousy, separation, and slander — treating each pressure with a different mode. This second episode of 'Issues of the Imam' unpacks three 'confiscations' the contemporary imam's home labors under, devotes a section to his wife's inner life, and redefines exemplarity from 'a home without tension' to 'a home that manages its tension with wisdom'.
Your Sermon: An Essay or a Stance?
The gap is vast between a preacher who searches each week for a "topic" to fill the sermon's minutes, and a preacher who carries a "project" — one in which every sermon is a brick in a building. The first asks: What do I say? The second asks: What do I build? This third episode of "Issues of the Imam" exposes the pulpit's crisis of purpose, maps three degrees of the project for building the human (the trait, the identity, the conduct), draws on the Prophetic model, and offers five practical steps for turning the pulpit from a platform of delivery into a workshop of building.
The Imam in the West — A School in Crafting the Leader
The Imam in the West: From Leading the Prayer to Leading the Community
The Imam's day in the West begins before sunrise across seven interlocking circles: ritual, fatwa, family, education, institutional, civic, and psycho-spiritual. How did prayer leadership separate from community leadership — and why does American reality demand their reunification?
Crafting the Modern Imam: Knowledge, Management, and Pastoral Containment
Imamship in the West cannot be built on Sharia knowledge alone, nor on rhetorical skill. The contemporary imam needs three interlocking pillars: Azhari knowledge anchored in the fiqh of minorities, institutional management with operational tools, and pastoral containment for others and the self. Episode Two of the series presents the formation model.
Why Western Mosques Need an Institutional Mind
A mosque without institutional memory is a tree without roots: complete in appearance, fragile at the first gust. Five diseases plague Western mosques, and five remedial pillars transform them from service desks into institutions that bequeath. A foundation drawn from the fiqh of awqāf and Ibn Khaldūn's warning about the three generations.
The Imam Between Individual Fatwa and Collective Voice
A single Muslim consults four sources — a YouTube shaykh, a local imam, an Instagram preacher, and an AI model — and receives four contradictory fatwas. This is the crisis of issuing religious rulings in the West. The fourth and final episode of the series presents the classical conditions of fatwa, diagnoses the collapse of religious authority, and proposes a 'collective voice' alternative — drawing on Dr. Ahmed's 2025 paper for Dar al-Iftaa on fatwa in the age of artificial intelligence.