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Wish Well for Your Children!
16 800 – this is the approximate number of hours that a child will spend in school over the course of twelve years, from grade one to matric.
3000 – this is the approximate number of hours that a child will spend in the maktab madrasah, assuming that the child attends the maktab for six years, five days a week.
Ask almost any practising Muslim adult today as to how he/she learnt to perform wudhu and salaah and recite the …
Hayaa in Seclusion
Faatimah left home with her husband to visit her mother. Before leaving, Faatimah ensured that she was clad Islamically, by wearing a long, loose-fitting, flowing abaayah to cover her body, a burqa’ to cover her hair, head, shoulders and chest, and a niqaab to cover her face.
After visiting her mother, Faatimah returned home. Now that she was in the safety and seclusion of her home, among her husband and children, she removed the abaayah, niqaab and burqa’.
The …
Guided on an Island
On one occasion, the great saint, ‘Abdul Waahid bin Zaid (rahimahullah), was sailing in the ocean along with other people when a severe wind blew their boat to an island. On this island, they found a person who was worshipping an idol. They thus asked him, “Who are you worshipping?” He responded by indicating to his idol. They said to him, “We have with us on board someone who can create something just like this (idol). (Therefore,) this cannot be a …
