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Timur & Inspiration from an Ant The legend has it that Timur, wounded by an enemy arrow, found shelter at the abandoned ruins of an old fortress in the desert. Lamenting his fate, Timur saw a little ant carrying a grain up the side of a collaps...

High Ambitions - علو الهمة A woman was told: "Rejoice! Your son became a governor!" She started crying. They asked why she was crying. She said: "I raised him to be a king, and he only became a governor." We should always have high ambitions in lif...

Qur'an (58:11): ‏‏يَرْفَعِ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَالَّذِينَ أُوتُوا الْعِلْمَ دَرَجَاتٍ‏ "God elevates those among you who believe, and those given knowledge in ranks."...

Hadith Scholars weakening their own FAMILY - الجرح والتعديل When it came to passing on knowledge to us, the Hadith scholars were brutally honest and they did not betray this trust. They even weakened their own family & friends - so that the tru...

"Who told you that your father was a wolf?" - فمن أنباك أن أباك ذئب Al-Bayhaqi narrated an interesting ancient story from Al-Asma'ii: دخلت البادية ، فإذا أنا بعجوز وبين يديها شاة مقتولة وجرو ذئب مقفى فنظرت إليها فقالت : أو يعجبك هذا ؟ قلت : بلى . و...

Grammatical Mistakes are no big deal - اللحن في اللغة There is no shame in making grammatical slips, here and there - it makes us human - major scholar of the past made such mistakes, it did not degrade them. Look at some examples below: 1- Imam A...

Qur'an [75:3-4]: أَيَحْسَبُ الْإِنسَانُ أَلَّن نَّجْمَعَ عِظَامَه بَلَىٰ قَادِرِينَ عَلَىٰ أَن نُّسَوِّيَ بَنَانَه "Do humans think that We cannot reassemble their bones? Yes indeed; We are...

3 Types of Soil Hadith - Why did Abu Hanifah narrate few Ahaadith? - أبو حنيفة The Prophet compared his TEACHINGS to RAIN-WATER, and he compared people with 3 types of SOIL: ‏ إِنَّ مَثَلَ مَا بَعَثَنِي اللَّهُ بِهِ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ مِنَ الْهُدَى وَال...

Ahl-al-Hadith praising the Fuqahaa -الفقهاء 1- Ibn Wahb said: كل صاحب حديث ليس له إمام في الفقه فهو ضال "Every person of Hadith that doesn't have an Imaam in Fiqh, he is lost." ["Al-Jaami", of Ibn Abi Zayd, 1/20]. And he said: لولا أنّ الله أنقذ...

Muhadith & Faqeeh - المحدثين والفقهاء 1- Imaam Al-Suyuti wrote: المحدث بلا فقه كعطار غير طبيب فالأدوية حاصلة في دكانه ولا يدري لماذا تصلح والفقيه بلا حديث كطبيب ليس بعطار يعرف ما تصلح له الأدوية إلا أنها ليست عنده “A Muhadith without Fiqh is lik...