First Muslim Community in Madinah & the Groundwork for Hijrah

Twelve people from Yathrib pledging allegiance to the Prophet that they would worship only t ...

Sins like Mountains

We have been created with desires, but any desire we have been provided with can be lawful o ...

Qur’anic Definition of Mercy

Mercy as described in the Qur’an emerges as being quite distinct from other kinds of m ...

Save Yourself

If you figure out the reason you are created for, you do the right actions and if you do you ...

Telling People about Their Lord: 25th Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

Every speech comes out with a cover from the heart of the speaker. If God allows a speaker t ...

Keeping Priorities Straight: 24th Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

Based on this principle of priority, you have to perform the require obligations before the ...

Da`wah: Why Is the Prophet Our Best Example?

As the Prophet’s methods in dealing with people’s mistakes are wiser and more efficacious, u ...

Hamzah ibn `Abdul-Muttalib: The Lion of Allah & the Martyr of Martyrs (Part 2)

Allah supported Islam with Hamzah and his conversion. He was strong in defending the Prophet ...

Witnessing God’s Bounty and Your Shortcomings: 23rd Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

If you want the doors of hope opened, recall what He offers you, and if the doors of awe ope ...

Mercy with People’s Faults: Twenty Second Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

A person, who learns of people’s secrets and does not have Godly mercy on them, brings upon ...

Mistakes Stemming from Ijtihad and Mistakes Done Deliberately

We need to make a distinction between mistakes stemming from an honest effort to find out wh ...

Hamzah ibn `Abdul-Muttalib: The Lion of Allah & Martyr of Martyrs (Part 1)

There were people among the non-believers who yearned to declare their belief in Muhammad, b ...

Dealing with People’s Praise: Twenty First Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

While journeying to God we will be put to many tests. One of those tests pertains to people& ...

Certainty of Faith, Indifference about the World: Twentieth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

I cannot proceed in my journey to God while forgetting my journey to the Hereafter. One shou ...

Mu`adh Ibn Jabal: The Most Learned of Halal and Haram

Among the seventy-man delegation of the Ansar who took the oath of allegiance to the Prophet ...

Distress and Need of Him: Nineteenth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

The word of wisdom under discussion is about du`aa’ (supplication). It is not about the etiq ...

The Meaning and Virtues of Al-Fatihah (The Opening of the Book)

What do you know about surat #Al-Fatihah? Why is it such an importance chapter of the Qur’an ...

Erring out of Ignorance and Erring Despite One’s Knowledge

We have to make a distinction between one who errs out of ignorance and one who errs despite ...

Ascending in the Levels of Worship: Eighteenth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

People are different. Diversity is a universal law of God. He diversified the acts of worshi ...

Enjoying God’s Company and Praying to Him: Seventeenth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

If He takes you away from people, then know that He is opening to you the doors of His Compa ...