Allaah Subhanahu ta’ala says in the Quran: “And certainly, We shall test you with something of fear, hunger, loss of wealth, lives and fruits, but give glad tidings to As-Sabirin (the patient). Who, when afflicted with calamity, say: “Truly, to Allaah we belong and truly, to Him we shall return.” …
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Episode-3 from the amazing Inspiration Series by Mohamed Zeyara. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VliucYnbAT8] “Indeed, we offered the Trust (the trust or moral responsibility or honesty and all the duties which Allah has ordained) to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook …
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Al Hafidh al Mizzi states in Tahdeeb al Kamaal: 11/194: Yahya ibn Yayha an Naysaboori said: “I was with Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah when a man approached him and said: “O Abu Muhammad, I came to complain to you about my wife, I am the most lowly and disliked of things …
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Narrated Abu Huraira: that he heard Allah’s Apostle saying, “Allah willed to test three Israelis who were a Leper, a blind man and a bald-headed man. So, he sent them an angel who came to the leper and said, ‘What thing do you like most?’ He replied, “Good color and …
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from MuslimWritings Do men think that they will be left alone on saying, “We believe.”, and that they will not be tested? (Quran 29:2) Allah uses every aspect of our lives to test us–even down to the innate biological urges He instilled in us. We must eat to live, but …
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