Month: December 2020

"The infant girl buried alive" - حديث There is a terrifying narration which states: الْوَائِدَةُ وَالْمَوْءُودَةُ فِي النَّارِ "The woman who buries alive her new-born girl, and the girl who is buried alive...

Atheistic Logical Fallacy: we know how the laws of nature work, so God does not exist It’s like saying: we know how Ford cars are made, so Henry Ford did not exist The question is: Who set these laws of nature in motion?...

The legendary poet, al-Mutanabbi: وَما التّيهُ طبّي فيهِمِ غَيرَ أنّني * بغيض إليَّ الجاهل المتعاقل "It’s not my habit to be arrogant, But I just can’t stand ignorant wannabe-intellectuals"...

Timur & Inspiration from an Ant The legend has it that Timur, wounded by an enemy arrow, found shelter at the abandoned ruins of an old fortress in the desert. Lamenting his fate, Timur saw a little ant carrying a grain up the side of a collaps...

High Ambitions - علو الهمة A woman was told: "Rejoice! Your son became a governor!" She started crying. They asked why she was crying. She said: "I raised him to be a king, and he only became a governor." We should always have high ambitions in lif...

Qur'an (58:11): ‏‏يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَاتٍ‏ "God elevates those among you who believe, and those given knowledge in ranks."...

Hadith Scholars weakening their own FAMILY - الجرح والتعديل When it came to passing on knowledge to us, the Hadith scholars were brutally honest and they did not betray this trust. They even weakened their own family & friends - so that the tru...

"Who told you that your father was a wolf?" - فمن أنباك أن أباك ذئب Al-Bayhaqi narrated an interesting ancient story from Al-Asma'ii: دخلت البادية ، فإذا أنا بعجوز وبين يديها شاة مقتولة وجرو ذئب مقفى فنظرت إليها فقالت : أو يعجبك هذا ؟ قلت : بلى . و...

Grammatical Mistakes are no big deal - اللحن في اللغة There is no shame in making grammatical slips, here and there - it makes us human - major scholar of the past made such mistakes, it did not degrade them. Look at some examples below: 1- Imam A...

Qur'an [75:3-4]: أَيَحْسَبُ الْإِنسَانُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَه بَلَىٰ قَادِرِينَ عَلَىٰ أَن نُّسَوِّيَ بَنَانَه "Do humans think that We cannot reassemble their bones? Yes indeed; We are...