Year: 2022
Misinterpreting People’s Words
Ibn Taymiyah said: ليس لأحد أن يحمل كلام أحد من الناس إلا على ما عُرف أنه أراده 'It is inappropriate to interpret the words of a person to mean something other than what that person intended.' ['Majmu al-Fatawa', 7/36]....
View DetailsSaving Money
This is good financial advice: ادخر لوقت للشدة (احفظ قرشك الأبیض لیومك الأسود) 'Keep something for a rainy day...' If you lose your job today - you should have enough emergency savings that will keep you going for the next 3-6 mont...
View DetailsWhy People Lock Up Birds
If some women are locked up at home by their husbands, let them find solace in the statement of the poet: سجن العصفور في القفص لجماله 'The birds get locked up in cages, only because of their beauty....' Consider it...
View DetailsWomen Going Out
Does the Qur'an command women to stay home? وقرن في بيوتكن This verse [33:33] can be read in two different ways: ‘And remain [وَقَرْنَ] in your homes.' & ‘And remain dignified [وَقِرْنَ] in your homes.' 1- Imam Ibn Jarir Tabari explains: وَقَر...
View DetailsTalk As You Dress
A man was dressed posh, but talked nonsense. A Bedouin said to him: يا هذا تكلم على قدر ثيابك أو الْبَس على قدر كلامك ‘Hey you, either talk as you dress, or dress as you talk.’...
View DetailsQur’an Gathering Dust
Imam Dhahaak said: يأتي على الناس زمان يعلّقون المصحف حتى يعشش فيه العنكبوت لا يُنتفع بما فيه ‘A time will come when people will store the Qur’an on a shelf until a spider nests on it, without them benefitting from it.’ [‘Jami Ba...
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“I’m the one whose art is seen by the blind, and whose words are heard by the deaf.” أنَا الذي نَظَرَ الأعْمَى إلى أدَبي وَأسْمَعَتْ كَلِماتي مَنْ بهِ صَمَمُ - Al-Mutanabi...
View DetailsEliminate Weaknesses
Do not allow external people to create rifts within your family... your strength lies in unity. It is said: قوة السلسلة تقاس بقوة اضعف حلقاتها 'A chain is as strong as its weakest link.' It means that no matter how strong all the i...
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