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The ‘Cold Shoulder’
“Excuse me! May I have your attention please!” Yet, despite the repeated requests, the plea fell on deaf ears and was totally ignored.
The above scenario plays out in many spheres of life. Sometimes, it’s an obstinate member of the staff that ‘plays dumb’ and chooses to ignore their employer. At times, it can be a friend that chooses to ignore us. At other times, it can even be our own near and dear ones that give us the ‘cold shoulder’, …
The Aid for Acceptance
Sayyiduna Sa’d (radhiyallahu ‘anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said, “The du‘aa of Zun-Noon (Nabi Yunus [‘alaihis salaam]), which he made while in the belly of the whale, is:
لَا إِلَهَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ سُبْحَانَكَ إِنِّيْ كُنْتُ مِنَ الظَّالِمِيْنَ
There is none worthy or worship but You. You are pure. Indeed, I was from among the wrongdoers.
No Muslim will ever make du‘aa through reciting these words, except that Allah Ta‘ala …
Driven by Devotion
The ‘Abbaasi Khaleefah, Ma-moon, once mentioned, “I never saw a person who was more obedient to his father and treated him in a more excellent manner than Fadhl bin Yahya Barmaki.”
The following incident highlights the extreme lengths which Fadhl went to in order to see to his father’s comfort:
Yahya Barmaki would only make wudhu with warm water. On a particularly cold night, during the period when he and his son, Fadhl, were unjustly imprisoned together, the warden did …
