4 Aug 2026, 13:04 UTC217 views16 reactionsread 6 August 2026 To remember, or to be reminded? That is the question…
For simplicity, take the sentence, “The training of the driver was expensive.” Depending on what was intended, it could mean that training the driver himself was expensive, or that the training service provided by the driver was expensive. In the first instance, the driver is the object in meaning; in the second, he is the subject.
In Arabic grammar, the first i…
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31 Jul 2026, 10:08 UTC410 views32 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Last post for the week, if you would lend an ear ... a quote I wish to share.
But brief word before the quote:
Imām al-Rāzī (r) is not saying that every theological position held by Muslims is equally sound. He says plainly & clearly that some were mistaken and others were right.
He is asking us to notice something else though, which is: even when Muslim scholars went wrong, they were often trying to defend what t…
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29 Jul 2026, 18:43 UTC473 views20 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Often, we forget duʿāʾs we once had a special bond with at particular phases of our lives… duʿāʾs we have since abandoned.
Then, in one of those quiet ways, you are reminded to return to them.
A few days ago I just happened to be reflecting on the āyah:
هو الذي أنزل عليك الكتاب منه آيات محكمات هن أم الكتاب وأخر متشابهات فأما الذين في قلوبهم زيغ فيتبعون ما تشابه منه … الآية
As my thoughts passed over the word زيغ,…
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29 Jul 2026, 12:30 UTC≈1,090 views16 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Imām al-Dhahabī (r) said,
❝It is Allah’s way that whoever demeans the scholars is left low & insignificant.❞
Tārīkh al-Islām wa Wafayāt al-Mashāhīr wa al-Aʿlām, vol. 13, p. 256
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26 Jul 2026, 19:50 UTC611 views15 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Another subtle point in Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ:
Why is the Divine Name “Allah” repeated in the first two verses?
Allah says:
قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
Then He says:
اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ
When you pause over it, the verses could have simply been:
“Allah is Aḥad. He is al-Ṣamad.”
But instead, the Divine Name is repeated:
“Allah is Aḥad. Allah is al-Ṣamad.”
Abū al-Suʿūd (r) explains that this repetition of the Divine Name…
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24 Jul 2026, 11:38 UTC580 views31 reactionsread 6 August 2026 A subtle point in Sūrat al-Ikhlāṣ:
Allah says قُلْ هُوَ اللَّهُ أَحَدٌ
The word أحد comes without ال
Then Allah says اللَّهُ الصَّمَدُ
The word الصمد comes with ال
Why?
Abū al-Suʿūd (r) explains that الصمد comes definite because they already knew Allah’s ṣamadiyyah, unlike His aḥadiyyah.
Meaning: they had some recognition that Allah is the One ultimately turned to in need. Their error was not that they denied …
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23 Jul 2026, 11:25 UTC604 views31 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Reading is a process of slowing down. Your mind is moving too fast.
Think of it as resistance training. Not everything is about speed. One phrase at a time, one sentence at a time, one paragraph at a time, one page at a time.
Slow down.
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8 Jul 2026, 07:52 UTC872 views17 reactionsread 6 August 2026 ❝I've been reflecting on why I believe in the Qur’an and this is the best I've come up with so far. When is it that you learn to trust a friend or a loved one? I don't believe one is able to point to an instance or some fact that establishes it with the certainty one has in the love and honesty of a close friend or relation. For me, belief, which is trust in the truthfulness of the Qur’an, emerges from the totality o…
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2 Jul 2026, 10:38 UTC≈1,530 views27 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Reading a book is like having a conversation.
The author is the speaker, and you are the listener. If, in a real conversation, you are absent-minded, or your thoughts are constantly being pulled elsewhere, you will find yourself having to politely ask the person to repeat himself again and again, because you keep zoning out.
Reading is no different.
If you are reading a book and you cannot understand a particular …
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26 Jun 2026, 21:38 UTC≈2,320 views38 reactionsread 6 August 2026 One of the ugliest things I have seen online Muslim personalities adopt is this… when they are discussing or refuting someone they have fallen out with, they depict the other person with the ugliest possible face as the thumbnail.
They make the eyes look sinister, add an evil smile, or edit the face so realistically that you would think it was real.
This is not befitting even against a disbeliever, let alone a fell…
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26 Jun 2026, 10:15 UTC≈2,240 views34 reactionsread 6 August 2026 A word of advice to those who hope to teach one day
Shaykh Dr. al-Bashīr ʿIṣām al-Murrākushī (ḥ) says:
❝One of the mistakes made by some who step forward to teach the Islamic sciences is this:
A person studies a text, masters it, and then assumes that he is able to teach it.
The correct approach is that you cannot teach a text unless you have mastered what lies above it, even if only by one level.
For example, i…
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25 Jun 2026, 17:01 UTC702 views18 reactionsread 6 August 2026 Its not "how are you doing?" ... its "how are you handling it?"
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