Month: July 2021
Romance
An Andalusian poet noticed the sun shining on his wife’s face, so he said the following lines of poetry: فَقُلْتُ يَا عَجَبًا الشَّمْسُ فِي القَمَرِ وَالشَّمْسُ لا يَنْبَغِي أنْ تُدْرِكَ القَمَرَا So I said: "How strange! the sun, on the m...
View DetailsIs Qur’an Qadeem?
Is the Qur'an Qadeem? القرآن قديم Ibn al-Jawzi narrated: سمع رجل في زماننا قوماً يتكلمون في القرآن ويقول بعضهم: ليس بقديم . .فقال: ما أبله هؤلاء قد تكلم الله بالقرآن منذ خمسمائة سنة فكيف لا يكون قديماً . A simple man heard some peop...
View DetailsLions
A proverb: د خپل کلي زمریان مه وژنی کنه د بل کلی ګیدړان به مو وخوري "Don't kill the lions of your village, otherwise even the jackals of other villages will eat you..." Arabic version: لا تقتلوا أسود بلادكم فتأك...
View DetailsIslam Is Outdated?
Atheist: Qur’an (600AD) is outdated! Yet, lives in a Democracy, which originated (500BC)! 🤦🏼♂️...
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Ibn al-Jawzi mentions: حدثنا عيسى بن عمر قال ولي إعرابي البحرين فجمع يهودها وقال ما تقولون في عيسى بن مريم قالوا نحن قتلناه وصلبناه قال فقال الإعرابي لا جرم فهل أديتم ديته فقالوا لا فقال والله لا تخرجون من عندي حتى تؤدوا إلي ديته فما خرجوا حتى دفعوه...
View DetailsPriorities
Wrong Priorities: A man was committing adultery with a woman, but he did not look at her face, while he was involved in the act. The woman asked: "Why don't you look at me?" The man said: "It is sinful to lo...
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The poet says: كبوتر با كبوتر، باز با باز *** كند هم جنس با هم جنس پرواز “Birds of the same feathers flock together, Pigeons with Pigeons, Eagles with Eagles.”...
View DetailsWho Is Your Lord?
A clever answer by a believer, in the presence of the Pharaoh - ربي ربهما Ibn al-Jawzi mentioned: روى أن رجلين من آل فرعون سعيا برجل مؤمن إلى فرعون فأحضره فرعون وأحضرهما وقال للساعيين من ربكما قالا أنت فقال للمؤمن من ربك قال ربي ربهما فقال فرعون سع...
View DetailsSweet Apples
A young man asked a wise man: why do good looking women always end up getting married to ugly men? The wise man replied: سیب شیرین همیشه کرم میخوره “Sweet apples always tend to get eaten by w...
View DetailsNative American Story
Native American Story ... الكلمة الحكمة ضالة المؤمن There is a story the Native Americans tell their children at campfire: An Eagle was soaring through the sky. Suddenly, it was hit by an arrow. Slowly, the bleeding eagle fluttered down to the earth...
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