...performing the Hajj, and striving to profess the faith. This means that they set sail on the sea of safety and security by obeying the command: Enter safety (Islam) whole-heartedly...
...going to have this honor? Most of the Companions wanted to attain this honor. One of them was Hz. Umar. He said, “I had never wanted to be the commander...
...before killed the others.” Thereupon, the Companion said, “The Messenger of Allah told the truth.” One of the Companions who protected the Prophet with their bodies in the Battle of...
...him was his uncle Khattab. He provoked young people and sent them to Zayd to beat him. He did not allow Zayd to enter Makkah. He would enter Makkah secretly...
...to enter Madinah without a flag.” Then he removed his turban and tied it to the end of his spear. He walked carrying it beside the Prophet until he entered...
...maintenance works himself. Muadh and his friends believed that they should first alienate him from idols in order to encourage Amr bin Jumuh to enter Islam and decided to implement...
...received the honor of being one of the first Muslims. When the pressure of the polytheists increased in Makkah, the Companions came together and started complaining that they could not...
...minor evil deeds and make you enter by a noble entrance (to an abode of glory). (An-Nisā’ 4:31) The Qur’anic commentaries that are usually based on the narrations from the...
...example, the attributes of God, Judgment Day, life after death, the rewards of Heaven, and the hardships of Hell are metaphysical matters which the human intellect cannot fully comprehend. The...
If God Almighty had not introduced Himself to us with His All-Beautiful Names, we would never be able to comprehend the truth concerning these Names in what is going on...
...trenches was completed after six days. Thus, the Muslims secured themselves. They started to wait for the polytheists to come. They arrived soon. They hurried in order to eliminate the...
...in both these practices, we can clearly see compassion for children, both in the religious guidelines and in the example of the Prophet’s life. While performing daily prayers has the...
...concerning all creation.” As was illustrated in the third comparison in the Ninth Truth of the Tenth Word, some personage may one day summon together before your eyes a great...
...and concerns are very important in order to identify their economic and financial structures and to enter into relations with them. Therefore, it was by means of their commercial relations...
...came to be adopted by the community. Then, they grew and embraced almost all people, like buds that open and young shoots that grow into stalks of grain when their...
...a general judgement in a supreme tribunal set up to mete out permanent reward and punishment. That comprehensive and precise recording and preservation would otherwise be completely meaningless and purposeless,...
...a golden age for every language. For instance, the Elizabethan era or the present age can be considered to be the golden age of English. They did not commit the...
...can these poor wings of ours be capable of reaching the horizon of Your pleasure? How can this poor heart open up to the secrets of the treasury of the...
...the repentance of those who commit evil (for a lifetime) until, when one of them is visited by death, he says, “Indeed now I repent.” Nor (likewise does the repentance...
...daughter of the Prophet is fashioning a loop of hellfire around her wrist?” Having heard this, Fatima, so sensitively compassionate, hurriedly sold the bracelet and freed a slave with its...
...open spaces and exhibitions we see. But they all differ with respect to art and to form. Note well, however, what order betokening manifest wisdom, what indications ïf evident compassion,...
...Egypt (as places of refuge and coming together in God’s cause), and (as a whole community) make your homes places to turn to God, and establish the Prescribed Prayer in...
...communication. According to the majority of scholars, the angels of Revelation do not come and bring messages to people other than the Prophets. Both Revelation and inspiration are special favors...
...the earth were torn apart, or the dead were made to speak, (all would be only through this Qur’ān). No, but to God belongs the whole command (to decide what...
...Islam: What is your relationship with your family? What is their religious commitment, or lack of one? What degree of commitment did you have to any prior religions? How open...
...Allah.” When he found out why the commander of Ghatafans had come, he addressed the Prophet respectfully, “O Messenger of Allah! If this is an order from Allah Almighty, fulfill...
...worshipping. He commanded us to be honest, to return the things entrusted to us, to get along well with neighbors, to avoid committing sins and shedding blood. He prohibited us...
...Paradise and avoid those paths that lead to Hellfire. Teaching them by precept and example, he can do so by acting on obeying Allah’s commands and avoiding things He has...
...end. All things in the universe, regardless of distance, help each other. This mutual helping is so comprehensive that, for example, almost all things, among them air and water, fire...
...gave himself up to prayer, only occasionally coming home for provisions. This might indicate that we can reach some degree of knowledge and so worship God. Zayd ibn ‘Amr, ‘Umar...
...this group. When the group approached Madinah, the Prophet (pbuh) was talking to his Companions. At one point, he said, a Yemeni will come from that door soon. There is...
...free from sins like the day his mother gave birth to him.” (Saheeh Al-Bukhaaree: 1449; Saheeh Muslim: 1350) 3) It provides a great opportunity to be saved from the hellfire....
...modern psychology. In our community everyone supports each other and builds up on one another’s knowledge and skills. The Revert is a family, centered around understanding, tolerance and compassion and...
...and speak with our mouth, whereas God does not need any such organs to see, hear, or speak. He is absolutely free and exempt from anything implying personification or comparison....
...Existence both individually and collectively. All consciences that are open to the life lived at the level of the heart and spirit always speak of Him and proclaim His Existence...
...Taqwā (reverent piety and righteousness) means observing the Divine ordinances in every walk of life. Taqwā, therefore, requires obeying both the religious rules and commands and the laws of God’s...
...and be free of the fear of loneliness in either world. Only those who do not use their reason or who have succumbed to plain stupidity and desires of the...
...ever religion of pragmatic, applicable, and comprehensive solutions, resorted to combating this problem gradually, imposing at every chance the very principles which would bestow the first inner, then outer, freedom...
...to any favor whoever it comes from. As we are reminded by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi in The First Word, in his collection of the Risale-i Nur, we, as human beings,...
...him on the Day of Resurrection a book which he will see spread open. (Al-Isrā’ 17:13) This verse calls to mind the cards hanged around the necks of those who...
