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A king was once asked: "If you were dying out of thirst, what would you give in exchange for a glass of water?" The king said: "My entire kingdom!" The man said: مُلْكٌ عَظِيمٌ لَا يُسَاوِي شَرْبَةَ مَاءٍ!! "So a glass of water is worth more than a...

Importance of reading texts properly: A guy read this: المؤمن كَيِّسٌ فَطِن (a believer is "intelligent" and "clever") As: المؤمن كِيْسٌ قُطْن (a believer is "a bag" and "cotton") A difference of a simple dot and a punctuation mark, can make a hug...

A wise man once said: الحديد بالطن ، والذهب بالجرام ، والألماس بالقيراط ، والفاكهة بالكيلو ، أمّا أعمال الآخرة فهي .. بالذرّة "IRON is measured per TON; GOLD per GRAM; DIAMONDS per CARAT; F...

In life, comfort makes us lazy and hardships make us stronger. Difficulties are opportunities for growth. Syed Sadiq Husain said in a poem: تندئ بادِ مخالف سے نہ گھبرا اے عقاب یہ تو چلتی ہے تجھے اونچا اڑانے کے لیے "Don’t fear the intensity of oppos...

al-Qur'an: وَالَّذِي نَزَّلَ مِنَ السَّمَاءِ مَاءً بِقَدَرٍ فَأَنشَرْنَا بِهِ بَلْدَةً مَّيْتًا كَذَٰلِكَ تُخْرَجُون "It is [God] who sends down rain from the sky in measured portions; We resurrect with it dead land back to life. Similarly, y...

A fake-saint was selling Paradise land. He was charging people 100 Dinar, for a plot of land in Paradise. Ignorant people believed in him, thinking he is a saint, so it must be some kind of miracle. So one scholar went to him and said: "I want to buy...

A man was a linguist. His horse stumbled, and he fell off his horse. People gathered around him. He said, using posh Arabic language: "Why have you all gathered around me, as if I'm a madman? Go away form me!" They were Arabs, but didn't understand h...

A woman asked for divorce. The judge asked: "What is the reason?" She said: "My husband is a Hayawaan (animal)." The judge asked: "If he is an animal, why did you marry him in the first place?" She replied: "I did not know that he was an animal." Her...

Two men came to a court. One of them said: "This person was carrying heavy items, he fell over. He asked for my help and I asked what he would give me in return, he said: "NOTHING." I still helped him, and he did not give me anything in return! The J...

Ibn al-Jawzi said: العالم عند العوام من صعد المنبر "A scholar - according to the general public - is the one who has climbed the pulpit (mimbar)." ["Al-Qusaas wal-Mudhakirin", p. 318]. This is a big mistake, because anyone can tie...