Shaykh-ul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullaah) was asked: Regarding the Prophet’s statement: “Anyone who possesses a speck of pride (kibr) in his heart will not enter Paradise” – Is this hadeeth specific only to the believers or (is it specific only to the) unbelievers? If we were to say that it is …
Read More »In Islam, the way to salvation (being saved from the Hellfire and admitted into Jannah (Paradise)) is believing with full conviction that there is NO GOD/DEITY worthy of (your) worship except Allah subhanahu wa ta`ala (exalted is He). It’s as simple as that. In Islam, Jannah is not something you attain based on your ethnicity, creed, or …
Read More »In Sahih Muslim (Book #001, Hadith #0361), Ibn Masood narrates from RasulAllah sal Allaahu alayhi wa sallam the warming story of the last man to escape Hellfire: “His crawl away from Hellfire is filled with his face sliping into the dirt, a tremoring walk, and a fire that licks him …
Read More »A moving story that I’ve heard once and that I always remember and cherish for its meanings. It’s the story of one of the great imams of this Ummah, Imam Ahmad bin Hanbal. His son, Abdullah, once asked his father one day, “Abbu when will we ever relax?” His father, …
Read More »Every country has its particular financial currency. Indian rupees cannot function in America, where the currency is the dollar, and whoever has more dollars will live that much more comfortably. Likewise, the currency of Saudi Arabia is the riyal, and whoever has more riyals will be that much richer than …
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