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Say what Needs to be Said
Often children approach their parents to complain about their married life! “I am being treated terribly and spoken to harshly! I cannot take it anymore! I wish I could just end this marriage!” are some of the endless complaints we probably hear. When faced with these complaints, how do we respond and react?
In a situation where they are jumping at the first convenient opportunity to bail out of the marriage and have not already tried their best to make it work, …
Dead Body of a Donkey
Nabi (sallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam) said: “When any group of people rise from a gathering wherein they did not engage in the remembrance of Allah Ta‘ala, they stand up from the likeness of the carcass of a donkey, and it will be a source of remorse for them.” (Sunan Abi Dawood #4855)
The existence and continuity of this entire world depends on the name of Allah Ta‘ala. As long as there is a single Believer taking the name of Allah Ta‘ala, …
Identifying with Idols
(Sultaan Mahmood Ghaznawi – Part Two)
In the era of Sultaan Mahmood, Sawmnaat was the name of a large city and also the name of an idol which was housed within its temple.
Sawmnaat, the idol, was so revered by the disbelievers of India that it had a Ka’bah-like status in their eyes. On the occasion of a solar or lunar eclipse, up to 230 000 people would travel to Sawmnaat from distant lands in order to …
