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Hocus Pocus and Bogus!
I sat in the line of the waiting room, secretly examining those around me. To my left was a shabbily-dressed woman with bloodshot eyes who’d clearly spent the past few days crying. To the right I spotted a balding man who constantly fidgeted. He was trying to put on a calm demeanour and display a brave front, but the stains of sweat rapidly spreading on his shirt betrayed his nervousness. Everybody here, it seemed, had a problem “too huge to cope with” …
Apple Boy
Ask our children:
1. Who comes first, our parents or our friends?
2. How should we treat our parents?
3. What should we do when our parents get old?
Now tell them the story:
There was once a little boy named Hanzalah. His favourite friend was a big apple tree. Every day he would play around the tree, climb its high branches, eat its red apples and rest under its cool shade. He loved the tree and the …
Opening the Floodgates
Shaikh ‘Abdul Haq Muhaddith Dehlawi (rahimahullah) narrates the following incident:
Delhi was once struck by a very severe drought. Due to the prolonged lack of rain, farms produced no crops and trees bore no fruit. People were suffering to the extent that they longed for even basic bread. Every person made du‘aa for rain yet there was not even the slightest sign of a cloud in the sky.
The ‘Ulama of the city eventually decided that all the people …
