Islamic Articles

To what extent the righteous predecessors, scholars of Hadith, and jurists were overwhelmed by their preoccupation with knowledge can be gauged from the following strange and interesting incidents:...

When the youth of any human begins to fade and they move towards middle age, generally hair starts turning white. When hair has just begun to whiten, if a person is asked exactly how many white hairs...

Whoever came into this world came only to depart. You have buried hundreds under the earth yourself, Yet you still lack absolute certainty about death. There is no one more heedless than you, Ta...

Imam Qurtubi (RA) narrates that when the people of the tribe of Ash'ariyyin migrated and reached Madinah Munawwarah, all their food and drink provisions were exhausted. Therefore, they sent one of the...

A long time ago, there was a huge apple tree in a place, and every day a little boy would come there and play around it. The boy would cling to its branches, climb to its top, eat its apples, and when...

Once, a king offered to give half of his kingdom to his vizier, but he also imposed some conditions. Driven by greed, the vizier requested to know the conditions. The king stated the conditions in...

The holy month of Ramadan is not just a month of worship for Muslims, but it is a month that not only spiritually trains an individual but also leaves deep and positive impacts on social life. This mo...

During the Battle of Alexandria, the Romans were enclosed inside a fort, and the Muslims had besieged it. One day, the Romans came out into the battlefield, and the commander, Hazrat Amr bin al-Aas (R...

The other day I was reading a book... during this time a small fly flew and sat on my book. At first, I tried to shoo it away, but it kept flying and sitting back on the book. Seeing this, I fell into...

Where does a child learn these abusive words (foul language)? First of all, they learn it from home. A father who abuses his wife over every little thing, abuses his children, or uses such language in...

A woman asked Sheikh Muhammad Rawi a question that her husband's mother remains ill. Her husband demands that she serve his mother, but she is unable to do all this. "Is it obligatory (Wajib) upon me...

Today after Fajr, while I was reciting (the Quran), I stopped at a verse of Surah Al-Ma'arij. It was about the creation of man, describing how man was originally created. The verse was: "Indeed, ma...