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Mughlai Vegetable Curry
This rich, slightly sweet, North Indian vegetable curry has its origins in Mughlai cooking, which is a blend of Indian and Persian styles where you find fruit added to curries, unlike in other styles around India.
Ingredients:
2 Tbsp vegetable oil
1 small cinnamon stick
½ tsp crushed black peppercorns
3 green elachi
2 onions, grated
2 Tbsp ginger-garlic paste
4 Tbsp tomato purée
3 fresh green chillies, slit lengthways
500g …
Plunging into Peril
Sayyiduna Abu Hurairah (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “My example and the example of the people is like that of a man who lit a fire. When the fire illuminated its surroundings, then the moths, and other creatures that have the tendency to enter the fire, began to plunge into it. The man began trying to prevent them from doing so, but they (resisted his efforts and) continued plunging into the fire. (That is my example and …
Relinquishing the Loan
Qaasim bin Muhammad (rahimahullah) was the grandson of Sayyiduna Abu Bakr (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) and an outstanding scholar of Madeenah Munawwarah. He mentions that when his wife passed away, Muhammad bin Ka’b Qurazi (rahimahullah) came to console him and narrated the following incident to him:
Among the Banu Israa-eel, there was a man who was blessed with the knowledge of Deen and who would exert himself in the worship of Allah Ta‘ala. He had a wife whom he loved very deeply. …
