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The evil, reprehensible quality of miserliness stems from excessive love for wealth. When a person is overpowered by miserliness, he will behave in the most foolish manner. Though he may have much wealth, due to this terrible quality he will even be miserly towards his own near and dear ones. Below are two incidents of misers:
There was once an extremely miserly man who instructed his children to buy him some meat. After they bought and prepared the meat, he …
Raise not the Niqaab
(Hafsah bintu Seereen [rahimahallah] – Part Two)
‘Aasim Al-Ahwal (rahimahullah), a renowned narrator of hadeeth, mentions the following:
Whenever we would go to Hafsah bintu Seereen (rahimahallah) (to learn hadeeth), she would use her jilbaab to cover her face as a niqaab. We once said to her, “May Allah Ta‘ala have mercy on you! Allah Ta‘ala has mentioned in the Quraan Majeed:
وَالْقَوَاعِدُ مِنَ النِّسَاءِ اللَّاتِي لَا يَرْجُونَ نِكَاحًا فَلَيْسَ …
Save the Low Pan!
For centuries and centuries, since the beginning of time, the natural position that people globally adopted for relieving themselves was that of squatting. Indeed, this position is so natural that a child instinctively adopts it when he needs to relieve himself.
It was only around the seventeenth century that Lord John Harington invented the high-pan toilet. Despite the years that have passed since its inception, and its popularity among certain classes of society, more than half the population of the world …
