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Remove Him from this Land

In the book, Muslim Judges of Andalus, Abu Al-Hasan Ibn Abdullaah Al-Maaliqee recounts a story about a great scholar of our Ummah : Muhammad ibn At-Tayyib Abu Bakr Al-Baaqillaanee (d. 1013). Let’s spend a moment in his sandals, so that we may feel the power that Islam had in the …

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Goodbye My Beloved

Goodbye My Beloved – Extracted from a Khutbah by Muhammad Alshareef Usama ibn Zaid radi Allahu anhu narrated in a hadith that: “We were with the Prophet when suddenly there came to him a messenger from one of his daughters who was asking him to come and see her son …

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“My Mercy Prevails Over My Wrath”

“My Mercy Prevails Over My Wrath” – By Hala Salah “The willingness to forgive and not to punish” is a definition frequently used for the word mercy, but what is mercy in Islam? With Islam, mercy was given a deeper meaning that created a vital aspect in the life of …

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Respect your Elders

Allah says in the Holy Quran: “Thy Lord hath decreed that ye worship none but Him, and that ye be kind to parents. Whether one or both of them attain old age in thy life, say not to them a word of contempt, nor repel them, but address them in …

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Quotes : Muhammad, the man in a cloak of his own clouting

Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish historian wrote about the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh). Excerpt from “Lectures on Heroes”, p. 66. “They called him Prophet, you say? Why, he stood there face to face with them; bare, not enshrined in any mystery, visibly clouting his own cloak, cobbling his own shoes, fighting, counselling, …

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