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Only Allah

When you’re troubled and don’t know how to act, where do you turn? To Allah for comfort. If you can’t make a difficult decision, whom do you ask? Ask Allah to show you the right path. When your life is a mess and you need to make changes, how do you start? With Allah’s help. …

Protect Your Faith

If a Muslim continues abandoning the Quran in his life, the faith in his heart begins to weaken, he becomes accustomed to disregarding Allah’s commands, and he begins to forget about Allah’s promise in the Hereafter, and instead, desires the pleasures of this life. The connection with Allah سبحانه و تعالى, that gives true life …

Can You Spare 7.5 Minutes?

If you’ve come across this post scrolling down then read this: We spend many hours daily staring at our screens, talking to people, reading and going through words that neither benefit nor serve us. How about we consciously make an effort to take just 7.5 minutes out of our time daily and devote it to …

Do Not Rush to Respond

When you hear hurtful words from those closest to you, remain silent and don’t rush to respond, perhaps great khayr may come about later on. Yusuf a.s. dealt with a similar situation and Allah recorded his story.. “And Yusuf kept it within himself..”

When You Start Reciting

When you start reciting Quran: • Don’t stop until you’ve mastered the letters (proper pronunciation- تجويد) and can connect them easily. • Having mastered the letters now focus on reciting the words comfortably. A fluent reciter can recite an entire page of the Quran in 1.5~ minute. • Increase your portion of Quran slowly if …

On Haram Relationships

Energy draining and barakah killing. Making someone the centre of your world, attention and purpose all for nothing. Loss of self-respect. Sheer frustration. Islam came to free us from slavery, yet some of us literally worship another person. One or the other gets taken for granted and that leads to loss of confidence, waste of …

Surah an Naas

Surah Al Naas – سورة الناس – starts off with a command of seeking refuge in Allah who is our Lord, King, and Master. These three names and attributes are mentioned to teach us about an Adab related to Duaa where we call upon Allah using different names. There is one evil mentioned in this …

A Cultural Practice

Some people associate the recitation of Quran culturally with death, and assume that Quran is a source of sad reminders and punishments alone. The reason behind this flawed perception is a blind cultural practice, that somehow became the norm among our people. Allah revealed the Quran to provide us with a guiding light, and heal …