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461 articles — page 9 of 20
Concepts of Faith
86 articlesA study of the major concepts of faith between their meaning in language and revelation and their application in life.
Wickedness: Transgressing All Limits Without Fear of Consequences
The Shaykh pauses at the word «الفجور» ("fujūr") in the saying of the Exalted ﴿بَلْ يُرِيدُ الْإِنسَانُ لِيَفْجُرَ أَمَامَهُ﴾ ("Rather, man desires to continue in wrongdoing"), taking it as transgressing all limits without fear of consequences, in great tyranny and in petty tyranny within households. He then reminds that the heart of the matter is their heedlessness of the Hereafter.
Acknowledging the Blessing of Provision
When Allah gives, He asks for acknowledgment of His giving: from the story of Qārūn to forms of gratitude through praise, good conduct, and spending.
Landmarks from Sūrat al-ʿAnkabūt: Trial, Toil, and Patience with Parents
Landmarks from Surat al-ʿAnkabūt: trial is a law of life from which people are not left alone, and a question about the ruling on one who commits suicide is referred to Allah's knowledge and to specialists. Then patience with parents as among the hardest trials, the verse set between two verses promising expiation of sins and the best reward.
The Address to the Children of Israel in Sūrat al-Baqarah: Fulfilling the Covenant and Not Being the First to Disbelieve
A faithful transcription of a post-Fajr reflection on the exegesis of al-Baqarah 40–59: the address to the Children of Israel, fulfillment of the covenant, not being the first to disbelieve, and reminding them of Allah's favors and their denial.
Man's Purpose and Station from the Story of Adam in al-Baqarah
From al-Baqarah 26–39: man's purpose is to set the earth right and revive its dead land, his highest station is through faith and knowledge, Satan's snares are set to the measure of that station, and Adam's Garden was a temporary training.
Wisdoms & Insights
155 articlesQur'anic, educational reflections carrying the verse to the heart.
Wisdoms & Insights
Wisdom is the Lost Property of the Believer
A cherished maxim circulates: "Wisdom is the lost property of the believer; wherever he finds it, he is most worthy of it." This foundational reading clarifies the scholarly status of this meaning and opens, on its basis, a deep civilizational equation that the contemporary Muslim — especially in the West — must navigate: How do we open to humanity's heritage without dissolving into it? How do we receive from others without losing ourselves? With careful authentication of every prophetic tradition and saying cited, three vivid examples from our American reality, and a civilizational conclusion: the crisis of today's world is not a crisis of information, but a crisis of wisdom.
Our Servitude — Between Deed and Word
The classical rhetoricians measured eloquence by "For every situation, a fitting speech." But in religion there is a deeper question: that the believer find for every word he utters a station within him that confirms it. This second episode of the "Wisdoms & Insights" series extracts from the decisive Qur'anic scale ("Why do you say what you do not do?") three degrees of servitude, three examples from our communities in the West, three afflictions that tear station from speech, and a practical five-step map for bridging the gap between what we say and what we are.
The Best Nation for the Best Religion
Muslims recite the verse "You were the best nation produced for mankind" as if it were a gratuitous certificate of belonging. But the verse states a condition, not a free description — it lists three requirements. This third episode of "Wisdoms & Insights" unpacks the meaning of "bestness" in the Islamic scale, reveals where Muslims of the West stand in relation to this measure, diagnoses three afflictions that tear the community from its bestness, and charts four practical paths to recovering the meaning of "produced for mankind" in our time.
Awakened Consciences
What makes the heart yearn for a house in the desert, and the soul strip itself of titles to stand on a single ground? It is the secret of the awakened conscience. This fourth episode of "Wisdoms & Insights" traces the pulse of the conscience through the scenes of Ibrāhīm, Hājar, and Ismāʿīl, then reads Sūrat al-Qiyāmah as testimony to the human being's sure insight over himself, exposes Islam's devotional system as a regimen for awakening the conscience, defines four contemporary roles for it — in fatherhood, marriage, work, and message — and closes on the truth that whoever's conscience dies has died, with the body merely on suspended sentence.
Steadfastness Between the Indications of the Sacred Texts and the Response of the Human Soul
What comes after Ramadan is not emptiness, but extension. The sacred texts converge on the meaning of continuity, while souls differ in how they respond. This fourth episode of the Wisdoms & Insights series unpacks the convergence of the texts on continuity, maps ten behavioral patterns of people after seasons of worship, and offers eight practical steps for turning post-season listlessness into sustained steadfastness.
Where We Stand in the Sentence of History
Every word in an Arabic sentence has a grammatical station: if the station fails, meaning collapses. So too with the believer in events — he has a station he ought to know. This fifth episode of 'Wisdoms & Insights' reads Sūrat al-Rūm as a school in the 'station of insight' when the mill turns between powers that share with us only history, diagnoses the trial of schadenfreude toward a Muslim of a different school, charts the position of the Muslim in the West between embassy and critique, and grounds a discourse that engages patterns, not personalities.
Satan and Man: Goal and Means
A reflection on Satan's goal with the children of Adam — ﴿I will surely lead them astray﴾ — and the entry points by which he infiltrates the soul: greed (whose distribution varies between people), miserliness (with wealth, ideas, and feelings), and comparisons that take desire as their measure and so destroy. A distillation of a Friday sermon at the Mesquite Islamic Center (M.I.C.), Texas, delivered on October 12, 2018, with practical counsels to safeguard the believer from Satan's entry points and from bad company.
Remind Them of the Days of Allah
What are 'the Days of Allah'? They are not the calendrical days that orbit with the celestial bodies, but the days in which the hand of God is unveiled upon humanity. This seventh episode of 'Wisdoms & Insights' extracts from the COVID-19 pandemic six cosmic and psychological lessons: God's predominance over His affair, the armies none knows but He, the five psychological stages of crisis, the two states of solitude and gathering at home, the law of uniting in crisis and dividing in prosperity, and the security the lockdown created. It concludes with a return to the Prophet's guidance on hygiene and prevention, and that the pandemic was nothing but a reminder.
Then Let Them Complete Their Cleansing
A two-word verse in Sūrat al-Ḥajj opens a complete vision of the human journey to God. This eighth episode of 'Wisdoms & Insights' reads ﴾Then let them complete their cleansing﴿ in its place among the sūra's obligations (purification, then fulfillment, then nearness), shows why the sūra is named after the Hajj though it is a sūra of a journey rather than of rites, then reveals that the most dangerous tafath is the one no one sees: the dust of envy, arrogance, and hardness upon the soul. It closes with a question that lingers — what matters is not whether you reached the House, but with what heart you meet the Lord of the House.
The Appetite for Obedience
Just as disobedience has its appetite, obedience too may have one: a sincere surge that blazes and then fades. This ninth episode of 'Wisdoms & Insights' draws from the story of the three men, the Prophet's praise of ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿUmar, and his untying of Zaynab's rope a unifying principle — that the Prophet ﷺ treats not the worship but the worshipper, kindling the languid and tempering the impulsive to return both to the balance whose axis is constancy, not quantity. An appetite that awakens, a love that nurtures, a covenant that steadies.
Straightening the Hearts Before the Rows
We align our rows by finger-widths — but do we align our hearts? This tenth episode of 'Wisdoms & Insights' begins from the Prophet's words 'do not differ, lest your hearts differ' to reveal that the straight row is a training in the nearness of souls, then extracts 'the law of the breach': a small gap left neglected, through which the devil slips and which then widens — its cure the very Prophetic command, 'close the breach' before it widens. It raises the idea from individual cultivation to the reformist concern: a nation that cannot unite in one mosque, how will it carry a message?
A Kaaba or a Qiblah?
Millions reach the Kaaba — but how many does the Kaaba reach in the heart? This eleventh episode of 'Wisdoms & Insights' distinguishes being at the House from the House being within you: the qiblah is turned toward by all and dwells in the heart until death, while the secret of the Kaaba unveils only to a present, reverent heart. From the hypocrites who 'stand lazily' to ʿUmar at the Black Stone — 'you are but a stone that neither harms nor benefits' — it rests on a single scale: 'but what reaches Him is the piety from you.' Not everyone who arrived has truly arrived; truly arrived is he whom the Kaaba returned to God.
The Scene of Paradise and Worldly Distinction in Sūrat al-Zumar
From Surat al-Zumar: the scene of Paradise in which Allah sets us so that our longing for it endures, and the passing distinctions of this world, whose savor fades like that of a new car.
Whoever Relies on God, He Is Sufficient for Him
In an age of anxiety over the world and over our children, the khatib walks through the contexts of reliance on God in the lives of the prophets, from Nūḥ to Yaʿqūb, showing that tawakkul is a heart in God’s hand and a body and mind in the field.
The Men in the Cave: What Have We Stored Up for the Hard Moment?
The hadith of the three men trapped in the cave, read as a question: what sincere deed have we stored up for our own hard moment, and what do the three generations in it teach us?
‹Is it for Our punishment that they are impatient?›: Do Not Hasten Allah's Punishment
Some people hasten Allah's punishment with their own hands: the steady one goes astray, one whose provision suffices him smokes or drinks, and righteousness slips away from his children. So let us weigh our deeds by the balance of the Qur'an, and not hasten the punishment but hasten toward Allah's mercy.
This World Is a Workplace, and Brotherhood for Allah's Sake Prepares Us to Meet Him
The world as a workplace and a place we only pass through, the Prophet as a passing traveler, and the brotherhood for God's sake as preparation for the meeting with Him.
Jāmiʿ al-ʿUlūm wa'l-Ḥikam 20: Modesty, Shyness Before Falsehood and Boldness Toward the Truth
Modesty (haya') in the hadith "If you have no modesty, do as you wish" is not passive shyness but boldness toward the truth and shame before falsehood, a safety valve that preserves dignity and guards against grounds for suspicion.