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Everyone loves food, but it is said: على المرء أن يأكل ليحيا، لا أن يحيا ليأكل 'One should eat to live, and not live to eat.' It is reported : وقيل لشريح القاضي أيهما أطيب اللوز ينق أم الجوز ينق؟! فقال: لا أحكم على غائب!!. The judge Shuraih Al-Qadhi...

Hadith: "My Lord commanded me to grow my beard" This narration is weak: ضعيف It is narrated by Ibn Bushran: وقال ابن بشران في " أماليه " (128) : أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ اللَّهِ مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ يَزِيدَ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ مَرْوَانَ الْأَنْصَارِيُّ الْ...

‘The life span of an individual is sixty or seventy years; but a century is for the nation a single breath… The individual is kept alive by the concomitance of soul and flesh, ...

The scholars say: ‎العقل الصحيح ‎لا يخالف النقل الصحيح ‘A correct intellect (‘aql), does not clash with a correct Islamic text (naql).’ When there is a clash, it usually means that...

Caliph Mamoon recited one of his poems in the presence of the poet Abu Nuwas. The Caliph asked him to judge the quality of his poem… Abu Nuwas replied: ‘This poem contains not even a trace of eloquence.’ He was locked up in the stable with the donkey...

‘Oh gardens of Andalusia….. do you remember those days, ‎‏when our nest was on your branches?’ ‎اے گلِستانِ اندلس! وہ دن ہیں یاد تجھ کو ‎‏تھا تیری ڈالیوں پر جب آشیاں ہمارا ‎‏— Allama Iqbal...

The true meaning of ‘manhood’ - الرجوله It is said: كل رجل ذكر، وليس كل ذكر رجل ما أكثر الذكور لكن الرجال منهم قليل ‎ فكلمة الطيور تجمع بين الصقور والدجاج ‘Every man is a male, but not every male is a man. M...

It is said: ‎كل ممنوع مرغوب ‘All forbidden things are desired.’ Parents who are too strict with their children, end up with children who are too liberal. If you constantly warn children against something, it increa...

A fly sat on the horn of a bull which was ploughing the fields. When the fly went home, it was asked by other flies: ‘where have you been?’ The fly replied: ‘WE have been ploughing the fields…...’ People who take credit for other people’s hard work ...

A king once did an experiment on human happiness. He placed a jar containing 99 golden coins in front of a man’s house and wrote on it: “𝗔 𝗴𝗶𝗳𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗴𝗼𝗹𝗱𝗲𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀.” The man opened it, and counted only 99 - not 100 as it said on the lid of the jar. H...