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If you are young and think you know it all - remember the proverb: سترى إذ انجلى الغبار أفرس تحتك أم حمار "You will see, when the dust clears, whether beneath you was a horse or a donkey."...

It is said: اتباع التقاليد لا يعني أن الأموات أحياء، بل أن الأحياء أموات. "Blindly following ancient customs and traditions doesn’t mean that the dead are alive, but that the living are dead." ---------------------...

It is recommended to marry men/women of other nations: 1- Ibn Qudamah said: يختار الأجنبية , فإن ولدها أنجب , ولهذا يقال : اغتربوا لا تضووا يعني : انكحوا الغرائب كي لا تضعف أولادكم "He should choose a foreign woman (not a re...

A king was once asked: "If you were dying out of thirst, what would you give in exchange for a glass of water?" The king said: "My entire kingdom!" The man said: مُلْكٌ عَظِيمٌ لَا يُسَاوِي شَرْبَةَ مَاءٍ!! "So a glass of water is worth more than a...

Importance of reading texts properly: A guy read this: المؤمن كَيِّسٌ فَطِن (a believer is "intelligent" and "clever") As: المؤمن كِيْسٌ قُطْن (a believer is "a bag" and "cotton") A difference of a simple dot and a punctuation mark, can make a hug...

A wise man once said: الحديد بالطن ، والذهب بالجرام ، والألماس بالقيراط ، والفاكهة بالكيلو ، أمّا أعمال الآخرة فهي .. بالذرّة "IRON is measured per TON; GOLD per GRAM; DIAMONDS per CARAT; F...

In life, comfort makes us lazy and hardships make us stronger. Difficulties are opportunities for growth. Syed Sadiq Husain said in a poem: تندئ بادِ مخالف سے نہ گھبرا اے عقاب یہ تو چلتی ہے تجھے اونچا اڑانے کے لیے "Don’t fear the intensity of oppos...

al-Qur'an: وَالَّذِي نَزَّلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً بِقَدَرٍ فَأَنشَرْنَا بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَّيْتًا كَذَٰلِكَ تُخْرَجُون "It is [God] who sends down rain from the sky in measured portions; We resurrect with it dead land back to life. Similarly, y...

A fake-saint was selling Paradise land. He was charging people 100 Dinar, for a plot of land in Paradise. Ignorant people believed in him, thinking he is a saint, so it must be some kind of miracle. So one scholar went to him and said: "I want to buy...

A man was a linguist. His horse stumbled, and he fell off his horse. People gathered around him. He said, using posh Arabic language: "Why have you all gathered around me, as if I'm a madman? Go away form me!" They were Arabs, but didn't understand h...