How can we respond to atrocities when our leaders fail us
Spreading LOVE when there is HATE. What can we do when we feel helpless watching disasters unfold all over the world? What should our response be? Can we afford to sit back and watch...
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Why doesn’t Happiness Last?
Why doesn’t Happiness Last? Have you noticed that no feeling lasts. Our moods are fluctuating constantly and moments of happiness evaporate into thin air. Why is happiness so transient? And why does life often...
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(2:64-66) Why Does Allah Punish Wrongdoers?
Leadership, Punishment, and Wealth Certainly you have knowledge of those among you who transgressed in (the matter of) the Sabbath. We said to them, ‘Become apes, abased.’ (65) Thus, We made it a deterrent...
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What Qualities does a Teacher of Deen Need?
What Qualities a Teacher of Deen Should Have The observation of Allah Almighty, in the life of a teacher, is perhaps the single most important aspect a teacher should have; the others are secondary...
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(2:44) Why do you have to practice what you preach
Do you have to Practice What You Preach? And be steadfast in Salah (prayer), and pay Zakah, and bow down with those who bow down. (43) Do you enjoin righteousness upon others while you...
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(2:40-42) Why isn’t following the truth easy
The Courage to Recognise the Truth ‘O Children of Israel! call to mind the (special) favour which I bestowed upon you, and fulfil your covenant with Me and I shall fulfil My covenant with...
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How Can I Spread Knowledge When I Don’t Feel Equipped?
How Do You Know When You Have Enough Knowledge to Teach? The Messenger of Allah (peace be on him) said: ‘Allah illuminates (or make radiant the face of) a man (or a woman) who...
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Why should I perservere and how can I combat laziness
Action vs Laziness ‘And say: Work; so Allah will see your work and (so will) His Messenger and the believers; and you shall be brought back to the Knower of the unseen and the...
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(2:21) If Allah does not need our worship, why do we worship Him?
Why should we worship Allah? Allah Almighty does not need our worship. So why worship Him? Do we pray because we know Allah Almighty or do we know Allah Almighty because we pray? ‘O...
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Why do I have to maintain trust?
What have we been entrusted with? And why we should maintain trust Allah the Almighty says in the Qur’an when he was describing the believers in Surah Mu’minun, ‘And those who are faithful to...
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Why is there so much suffering in the Muslim world?
Why has Allah not defeated the perpetrators of evil? Allah (subhanahu wa ta’ala) says in the Qur’an: “Had Allah willed it, He could have defeated them by Himself, but it is His test. He...
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(0:0) Why should I say Bismillah? And what is Isti’adha?
Traditionally we say bismillah before many things. Is it just cultural or is there more to it? And what happens if we don’t say it? In need of protection Let’s face it. As...
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