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Prayer and Supplication
When the slave comes face to face with Allah’s greatness and majesty, he must admit to his own weakness. He then seeks H...
Night Worship
It is an indescribable source of pleasure for the servant to be together with Almighty Allah in the depths of the night....
Praying in Congregation
Social training is one of the most important principles of Islam. And the first lesson for the Muslim starts with prayin...
Supererogatory [optional] worship
Supererogatory worship reinforces the obligatory and is a means for the servant to approach Allah. As part of the nature...
Fastidiousness in worship
This universe is like an eternal handiwork of The Divine in which He has embroidered His Greatness and Power. At the cen...
Obedience to the commands of Allah and His Messenger
The spiritual degree of a believer is in accordance with the degree to which they obey the commands of Allah and His Mes...
Tawba and Istigfar
The human being has a tendency to incline towards sin when it is defeated by the desires of its nafs and when it loses t...
Taqwa (Piety and God-consciousness)
Taqwa means protecting the heart from anything other than Allah or anything that distances one from Allah so that the he...
Sincerity
The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) said: “Actions are according to their intentions” (Bukhari, Faith, 41; Muslim, Imare, 155)...
Prayer and Supplication
When the slave comes face to face with Allah’s greatness and majesty, he must admit to his own weakness. He then seeks H...
To Live one’s faith with a passion
Faith is the light of the intellect, the polish of the consciousness and the harmony of the emotions in the heart. Passi...
THE BEWILDERMENT OF PRIDE
A tiny mouse caught the bridle of an enormous camel, and taking up the reins of the camel he proudly walked in front of...
THE EVILNESS ARROGANCE (KIBR) IN THE MATHNAWI
The Mathnawi: “The earth has surrendered to the skies and it says: I am your slave, bring down what you will!”(vol.3: 45...
NEITHER OFFENDING NOR BEING OFFENDED II.
‘Abdullah Ibn Umm-i Maktûm (r.a), a man blind from birth, was one of the first muezzins of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)....
NEITHER OFFENDING NOR BEING OFFENDED I.
The Mathnawi: “If you know who is within this heart, what is this rude behavior at the front door of the Owner of the he...