Muslim

  • “…I never saw anybody or anything more handsome than him.”

    Below is a poem from my upcoming book, “Recognising the Beloved” – a set of poetry dedicated to specific ahadith telling descriptions of the Prophet (peace be upon him). One hadith acts as a chapter, under which is a poem exploring the hadith; the following chapter is a new hadith containing a different description and

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  • Sabr is truly the most beautiful and greatest quality. From it all else is born. I think people confuse Sabr with the English word and concept of waiting, but I find that to be a mistaken translation and understanding. While waiting is a part of it, I think Sabr, or patience as it is usually

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  • One thing I think we have come to underestimate today, for perhaps we have become a more dishonourable people, a more valueless people, is the mercy and blessing of honour and value, of position and rank in God’s court. We have forgotten the value of freedom and living by the values of truth and God

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  • Continuing the theme of Ashura being a mercy, though the tragedy of Karbala was heart-breaking, martyrdom at Karbala was a mercy for al-Hussain: God let His beloved ones escape from tyranny, just like Moses (peace be upon him) and his people did, but through the station of martyrdom. God didn’t allow the 72 martyrs of

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  • With the commencement of the month of Muharram, marking the new Islamic Year, comes the remembrance and commemoration of the day of Ashura – a monumental day in Islamic history, one of the holiest days in one of the holy months. Ashura, or the 10th of Muharram, is a day in which the great event

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