al-miftah.com Some contemporaries, who degrade the Fiqh of the four Imams & their followers, actually do so because they view legitimate “difference of opinion” as evil. This is the reason for which they keep harping on the fact that we need to follow the Quran and Sunnah and not any …
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(Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam [radhiyallahu ‘anhu] –) Sayyiduna Hakeem bin Hizaam (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) is a Sahaabi of Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) who was blessed with an extraordinarily long life – he passed away at the age of one hundred and twenty! Another unique aspect of his life is that he …
Read More »Problems, Problems, Problems…
By Sister S Bemath eislam PROBLEMS. . . how we hate them! The time and energy we waste, stewing over problems instead of tackling them cheerfully and constructively, recognising them as the growth points of life and progress. Life can expose us to a series of problems. Problems evoke …
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم The Prophet (ﷺ) never saw his father, and still developed into the paragon of human excellence. How many Ṣaḥāba were orphans due to their fathers being martyred? Weren’t greats like al-Ḥasan al-Baṣri, Abu Yūsuf al-Qāḍi, Imam ash-Shāfi’i, Imam Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal, Imam al-Bukhāri, all …
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Sayyiduna Suhaib bin Sinaan (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) is commonly known with the title “Roomi”, although he was not from Rome. The reason for him being called this is that when he was young, the Romans had captured him during one of their attacks on the Persian territory and they had enslaved …
Read More »Every woman wants to be beautiful, really beautiful.
Umm Khalid Haqiqatjou muslimskeptic.com No amount of makeup or cosmetic procedures will make you as beautiful as haya’ will make you. Haya’ makes a woman stunningly beautiful. Haya’, الحياء: that elusive internal and external quality of modesty, humility, bashfulness, shyness. Refraining from indecency and immorality out of an instinctive self-preservation. …
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Every parent wants their child to prosper in life. Accordingly, every parent will try their level best to equip their child with the qualities that will assist him/her to thrive and be successful. The parents will try to feed them healthy foods, and if there is a nutrition deficiency, they will …
Read More »Digital Cocaine: 10 Reasons to Keep Your Children Away from Screens
By:Umm Khalid Haqiqatjou muslimskeptic.com I’m a firm believer in a strong no-screen policy for kids. No TV. No iPhone. No iPad. No laptop. No screens of any kind, especially before the age of 2. The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that parents “place a reasonable limit on entertainment media” and …
Read More »12 Reasons Why I Choose to Not be a Feminist
Written By Zakeeya Ali If you believe that feminists gave women their rights, you are sorely mistaken because Islam has always given females their rights. Even though feminists brought legal rights to women in misguided modern societies, over the years, it’s turned into male-bashing and women-need-to-act-like-men campaigns. Women are subtly convinced …
Read More »Three Levels of Evil
Moosa bin Abi ‘Isa (rahimahullah) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “What will be your condition (O Ummah!), when your youth will sin openly, and your womenfolk will transgress (the limits of the sharee‘ah)?” (Hearing this,) the Sahaabah (radhiyallahu ‘anhum) exclaimed, “O Rasul of Allah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam)! …
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