Month: October 2021
False Prophet
Ibn Kathir narrates: وقد قيل لابن عمر: إن المختار يزعم أن الوحي يأتيه. فقال: صدق، قال تعالى: { وَإِنَّ الشَّيَاطِينَ لَيُوحُونَ إِلَى أَوْلِيَائِهِمْ } [الأنعام: 121] . It was said to Ibn Omar: "Mukhtar al-Thaqafi claims that revelation ('w...
View DetailsBe A Good Example
Sh Muhammad Al-Ghazali [d.1996] said: إن انتشار الكفر في العالم يحمل نصف أوزاره متدينون بغضوا الله إلى خلقه بسوء صنيعهم وسوء كلامهم "As for the disbelief that exists in the world today, half of the blame (responsibility & sin) of that fa...
View DetailsSink-Hole In A Village
Once a sink-hole appeared in a village. A lot of people were falling into it, getting killed & injured. The village elders gathered to find a solution. Instead of filling up the hole, one of the elders suggested: أنا أرى انه نبني مستشفي بجانب...
View DetailsDouble Faced People
The Prophet said: تَجِدُ مِنْ شَرِّ النَّاسِ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ ذَا الْوَجْهَيْنِ، الَّذِي يَأْتِي هَؤُلاَءِ بِوَجْهٍ وَهَؤُلاَءِ بِوَجْهٍ "The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the double f...
View DetailsDog’s Party
A man came out of the butchery carrying lots of bones. Someone tried to make fun of him, saying: "Are you organising a party for dogs?" The man replied: "Yes … you did not get invited?" رأى رجل فضولي رجلا يحمل عظاما من عند القصاب،فسأله الفضولي: هل...
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The scholars say: احذر ان تكون ثناء منشورا وعيبا مستورا "Avoid being: a public praise, and a secret disgrace." ["Hilyatul-Awliya", 10/119]....
View DetailsPerennialism Is False
Our paths are different... our destinations are different. A man was riding his camel in the opposite direction of the Ka'bah and he wanted to go Hajj... the poet says: ترسم نرسی به گعبه ای اعرابی این ره که تو میروی به ترکستان است "I fear that you w...
View DetailsSyrian Donkey
Protecting the Reputation of your Country - قصة الحمار الشامي In 1898, the German Kaiser Wilhelm II and his wife, Empress Augusta Victoria, visited Damascus. While traveling there, the Empress was impressed with a white donkey that caught her eye a...
View DetailsAssociate With Smart People
Associate with intelligent people. Ignorant people will harm you more than they will benefit you, even if they're your friends. Omar Khayyam says in a poem: اشرب نقيع السم من عاقل واسكب على الأرض دواء الجهول "Drink the Infusion of a Sane p...
View DetailsMisinterpreting People’s Words
Ibn Taymiyah said: من كان في قلبه مرض يأخذ من كل كلام ما يناسب مرضه "People who have a sickness in their hearts will take from every speech whatever suits their sickness." ["Jaami' al-Masail", 7/191]. We may say something positive...
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