Year: 2020

Destiny - هل الإنسان مسيًّر أم مخيًّر؟ A student asked a wise man if humans have FREE WILL or if things are FORCED upon us? The wise man said: "ارفع قدمك - lift your foot." He did - so the wise man said: "This is free will." The wise man asked hi...

Fatwa Shopping - تتبع الرخص What is meant by 'تتبع الرخص' is that a person seeks the easiest and most lenient verdicts of jurists. This issue is not as black/white as some people want you to believe - it is disputed: 1- The Hanafi giant, Ibn Humam...

Arabic Proverb: الْجَارُ قَبْلَ الدَّارِ وَالرَّفِيقُ قَبْلَ الطَّرِيقِ "[Choose] your neighbour (JAAR), before your home (DAAR), And your companion/friend (RAFEEQ), before ...

Giving Fatawa should not be taken lightly by the Muftis. Abu Husain, the great Tabi'ie, said about some Muftis of his time: إنَّ أحدهم ليفتي في المسألة، ولو وردت على عمر لجمع لها أهل بدر “Some of them pass verdicts on an issue, the like of...

Imam Abu Hanifah - رحمه الله تعالى - saw a boy playing in the mud. The Imam told him to be careful, so he doesn't slip in the mud. The boy replied: ‏ احذر أنت السقوط، فإن في سقوط العالم سقوط العالم "You should be careful of slipping, because the ...

A caravan was robbed. The owner of the caravan complained to the king. The king asked: "Why were you sleeping?!" The man replied: "Because I thought that you were awake…" یو کاروان ...

The people of Noah mocked him - تفسير ابن كثير Ibn Kathir narrates in his Tafsir (2/463): ويسخرون منه ويقولون : تعمل سفينة في البر ، فكيف تجري ؟ قال : سوف تعلمون "The [disbelievers] used to mock [Noah], saying: ...

Aisha - رضي اللَّه عنها - said that they slaughtered a sheep. Most of it was given away to feed poor people. The Prophet asked: "What remains of it?" Aisha said: مَا بَقِي...

How Sahaba accepted Destiny & Plagues - معاذ بن جبل The plague of Amwas (طاعون عمواس‎), was a Bubonic Plague epidemic that afflicted Syria-Palestine in 638–639 and some Sahaba were present. It is reported in “Siyar A'lam al-Nubala", (1/458): و...

An extremely Long Beard is Foolishness - اللحية An extremely long beard, was considered a sign of negligence (غفلة) and foolishness (حمق) by the Salaf. For this reason, some scholars of Hadith would weaken/criticise (جرح) someone for having a massi...