Taken from Marc Manley: http://www.marcmanley.com/tag/aphorisms/ ———————————————– I have been taking the time to re-read al-Ghazzali’s Ihya’ ‘Ulum al-Din again (as I do from time to time) and always enjoy the anecdotes and aphorisms he sprinkles throughout his prose. One in particular is from Yahya bin Mu’adh al-Razi: جاهد نفسك بأسياف الرياضة – والرياضة على أربعة أوجه: القوت من…
Absolute essential watch for any student of knowledge. May Allah bless Ustadh AbdelRahman for such great advice! [youtube:=http://youtu.be/k_o232GSda0]
There is a deeply flawed definition which causes devastation in one’s path to Allah. That is to believe that: being “good” = being “perfect“ and being “imperfect” = being “bad“ The result of this flawed notion is either self-hatred or arrogance. If a person believes that having flaws means they are “bad”, seeing their own…
“How strange and foolish is man. He loses his health in gaining wealth. Then, to regain health he wastes his wealth. He ruins his present while worrying about his future, but weeps in the future by recalling his past. He lives as though death shall never come to him, but dies in a way as…
This was literally the thing I needed to read at this moment… the hard thing now is trying to internalise it – Ya Allah! ‘As I look back on my life, I realise that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good; I was actually being re-directed to something better. You must…
This is an issue that affects so many of us – the balance between focusing on society and focusing on oneself. Here is a remarkable hadith on the balance between the two issues: Anas relates that, “We asked the Prophet ﷺ, ‘O Messenger of Allah ﷺ, shouldn’t we refrain from calling others to goodness if we…
Indeed, I hold that most Christians of the present time, whether Europeans (Al-Rum) or Central Asians (Al-Turk), are included in the divine mercy, Allah Most High willing, meaning those in the far lands of Europe and Asia who have not been reached by the prophetic message. For they fall into three categories: 1) One group…
“[When preaching about religion], many of us try and tell people about the nuts and bolts of the car without telling them why they should buy this car in the first place. We’re selling features instead of benefits…” — Bishop Harry Jackson
Were his miracles to be as mighty as his rank, (35) just the sound of his name will bring dead bones to life (36) (Chapter 3, Qasida Burda, Imam Busairi) ﷺ
“Truthfulness is to speak the truth when you think the only way out is to lie.” — Imam al-Junaid
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