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Dying Of Joy
A Bedouin was asked: قيل لأعرابي : أتحب أن تموت امرأتك ؟ قال : لا قيل : ولم ؟ قال : أخاف أن أموت من الفرح "Don't you sometimes wish that your wife was dead?" The Bedouin replied: "No."...
View DetailsDomestic Violence
Domestic Violence ... سورة النساء In our day and age, many people quote Qur'an (4:34) as “justification” for domestic violence, after causing physical injury & harm to women. It goes without saying that Islam does not condone that. Good men do...
View DetailsMuslim Cinema
Once upon a time, some Muslims went to Hollywood with a script for a movie about the Life of Prophet Mohammad. Those directors said: "If the actors who play these roles are named Mohammed and Ahmed, and not Christian Bale or Tom Cruise - we will str...
View DetailsPalindromes
2 Interesting Palindromes in the Qur'an A palindrome is a 'word', 'number', 'phrase', which reads the same backward as forward. ----------------------------- 1- The Qur'an states: كل في فلك "Each gliding in an orbit." (21:33). These are the letters...
View DetailsRead The Title Properly
When buying books, make sure you read the title properly. A teacher once told a class to bring their favourite book to class, and to read a page from it to class. One student went out to the market, to buy Ibn Qudamah's Usul al-Fiqh manual, instead...
View DetailsThief
A man gathered some bricks to build a wall. Someone took them, saying: "I didn't realise that they were yours." The owner said: "Did you also not realise that they weren't yours??!" رأى رجل رجلاً يأخذ حجارة أعدّها لبنائه فاستحيا منه فقال الآخذ: لم...
View DetailsThe Ruling On Board Games
Board games with Dice/Backgammon - النرد Short Answer: 1- If these games involve gambling, it is forbidden by agreement of all scholars. 2- If they don't contain gambling, but keep a person away from God's remembrance (prayers etc), it is also for...
View DetailsThe Fear Factor
The Qur'an praises: مَّنْ خَشِيَ الرَّحْمَٰنَ "Those who FEAR the RAHMAAN (Merciful i.e. God)." [50:33]. Some people think that its a contradiction to "fear" a "merciful" God, but it is not. Al-Ghazali said in "Al-...
View DetailsDon’t Become Arrogant With Your Worship
Imam Al-Qurtubi mentions in his Tafsir (1/443): وقيل : إن إبليس عبد الله تعالى ثمانين ألف سنة "And it was said: Satan worshipped God for 80,000 years." He went from hero to zero ... So don't become arrogant with y...
View DetailsHardships
The Poet says: جَزَى اللهُ الشَّدَائِدَ كُلَّ خَيْرٍ وَإنْ كانت تُغصّصُنِي بِرِيقِي وَمَا شُكْرِي لهَا حمْداً وَلَكِن عرفتُ بها عدوّي من صديقي “May God reward hardships with...
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