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A poet saw an attractive woman, but he did not lower his gaze as prescribed, so the woman looked away - to safe him from the fitnah. The poet said: السيف في الغمد لا تخشى مضاربه وسيف عينيك في حالين بتار “One does not fear a sheathed sword,...

A fair judge & the sneeze of the Caliph ... تاريخ بغداد A group of people wanted to get rid of a fair judge, so they complained to Caliph Harun al-Rashid and falsely accused him of being too lenient in his rulings - being soft on crime. The Cal...

A tyrant king ordered the execution of a woman’s male relatives: brother, husband, and son. She pleaded for mercy, so the king allowed one of them to be spared, and gave her the choice to choose one of them. She thought deeply and then said: ‎الزوج...

Darwin was not an Atheist… He affirmed the existence of a Creator. Later in life, he rejected religions, but he still remained agnostic. He did not reject the existence of a Creator until he died. The type of Creator he seemed to believe in was one...

The poet says: ألَمْ تَرَ أنَّ السَّيْفَ يَنقصُ قدْرُهُ إذا قيل إنَّ السيفَ أمضى من العصا "Do you not see that it is degrading for the sword, when you say: “the sword is sharper than a stick?" This poem is usually ...

Kindness does not require you to validate people’s mistakes, false practices and corrupt beliefs. If your child says: “1+1=3”, you don’t say: that’s fine, because I love you! Validating mistakes is not kindness, its cruel… The Persian poet, Sa’di ...

A forgotten Sunnah … Do you know why the Imam sometimes holds his hands facing down when making Du'a (supplication)? It is reported in Sahih Muslim: أَنَّ النَّبِيَّ صلى الله عليه وسلم اسْتَسْقَى فَأَشَارَ بِظَهْرِ كَفَّيْهِ إِلَى السَّمَاءِ “Anas ...

A man saw some stoned people (using intoxicants). He said to them: Haram ‘alaikum They replied: wa ‘alaikum Haram ‎مر رجل على مجموعة من المساطيل وهو يحششون فقال لهم : حرام عليكم . ردوا عليه : وعليك...

A man saw a girl at a well. He asked: “Can you tell me how clever women are?” She started shouting for help!! The man said: “I have no bad intentions...” She then poured the bucket of water on herself! When a crowd gathered, the girl said: “I fell in...

An elderly man in China was using this object as a hammer to break walnuts for 25 years, until someone noticed that it was an unexploded grenade! ‏ ‎وَمَا كَانَ لِنَفْسٍ أَن تَمُوتَ إِلَّا بِإِذْنِ اللَّهِ كِتَابًا مُّؤَجَّلًا "No soul can d...