"O Kumayl, do not take knowledge from anyone but us, and you will be of us" — Amirul Mu'minin a.s
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Few Islamic terms are used as often as taqiyah with as little examination. It is thrown as an accusation, returned as a defence, and hardly ever opened up as a subject. Yet it is a Qur’anic term, and it is worked out in…
Karbala is usually remembered as a battle. Yet most of what the earliest historical sources record is not the battle — it is the negotiation that failed before it. The fighting itself lasted a single day. What led up to…
Among the property obligations in Islam, khums is the one most often misunderstood from outside and least often argued from within. Those who pay it frequently cannot say exactly where its evidence lies; those who…
Every Muslim is commanded by Allah SWT to honour, exalt, love and hold in high regard the Messenger of Allah SAAW. These matters are found in the Qur’an, among them 1. Al-Araf (QS 7:157) “... So those who believe in…
Sayyidah Fathimah az-Zahra as. once asked her father, the Messenger of Allah SAAW, “Father, what befalls one who takes the prayer lightly, whether man or woman?” The Messenger of Allah SAAW said, “O Fathimah, whoever…
The occasion for the revelation of surah Abasa (QS:80) lies in a historical event. The Prophet SAAW was once sitting with a number of wealthy Quraysh of the Umayyad clan. While the Messenger of Allah SAAW was teaching…
Clear water cannot come from a filthy spring — would you not agree? For the Muslims, the soul and person of the Messenger of Allah SAWW are a soul and person that are exalted, clean, pure and beloved. That is…
For several decades now, the theories that explain human behaviour have been dominated by Western thinkers. The paradigm of the human being has shifted too, from the study of the human soul to a recognition of the human…