Month: March 2022
A Disappointed Poet
A disappointed, but truthful poet once said: إذَا نَشر الفَتى شِعرًا جميلًا فإنّ المُعجبينَ بهِ قَليلُ وَإن نشَرت الفتَاة أي شيءٍ فإعجابٌ وتَعليقٌ طَوِيلُ “When a boy shares a beautiful poem, its admirers will be few [qalee...
View DetailsOpening Schools
‘He who opens a school, closes a prison.’ هر ښوونځی مو چې پرانېست؛ د زندان يو ور مو وتاړه - Victor Hugo...
View DetailsAashiq Rasool
According to many scholars, it is inappropriate to use names like 'عاشق رسول' ['aashiqe-rasool] or 'عاشق الله' ['aashiq-allah], because the word 'ishq' [عشق] has sexual connotations in the Arabic language. 1- Imam Ibn al-Jawzi said: فإن العشق عند أه...
View DetailsGod Conceals Our Flaws
The Prophet ﷺ said: إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ سِتِّيرٌ “God is a Concealer.” [‘Nasai‘, 407 - صحيح]. https://sunnah.com/nasai:407 ‘Concealment’ [الستر] of Sins - is one of the most beautiful qualities of God. If God were to lift t...
View DetailsTragic Beauty
The sky is tragically beautiful… it’s a graveyard of stars. المأساويه في جمال السماء أنها مقبرة من النجوم The stars we see today have died millions of years ago - it’s their light that is still reaching us. And the most amazing thing is: when we l...
View DetailsKing’s Flatterers
Once a king shot an arrow at a deer, but he missed and the deer ran away. The king’s flatterers said: ‘Sire, this is the first time that we see a dead deer running!’ ذهب السلطان للصيد فأخطأ صيده فقال بعض حاشيته:هذه أول مره يا مولاي نرى غزالاً يركض ...
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Once upon a time it was said: خراسان كنانه الله إذا غضب على قوم رماهم بهم ‘The land of Khurasan is the quiver of God, when He gets angry at a nation, He hits them with it.’ [‘Mu’jam al-Buldan’, 2/351]....
View DetailsFunny Incident
A bald man had an argument with his wife. His wife said to him: تخاصمت امرأة مع زوجها، وكان أصلع، فقالت له: «لستُ أحسد شيئاً في هذه الحياة إلا شعر رأسك حيث فارقك واستراح منك 'I don't envy anything in this life, except your hair, which mana...
View DetailsGod Knows
We sometimes get disappointed when God doesn’t open a certain door for us, but sometimes those passages lead to nowhere or destroy us if opened. If we knew what was awaiting us behind some closed doors, we’d wish they never opened for us! When you ...
View DetailsHeal Your Wounds
‘𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼𝗻'𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝘂𝗿𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂, 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗱𝗶𝗱𝗻'𝘁 𝗰𝘂𝘁 𝘆𝗼𝘂.’ When we stress, we tend to take our anger out at those who didn’t cause us problems. Any little thing becomes an excuse to release our anger. اتقوا الظلم، إنه ظلمات يوم...
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