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Jul 2020
Allah Almighty talks about specific criteria for specific people. Is he who knows that what was revealed to your from your Lord is the truth, like him who is blind? Only those who reason will remember. Those who fulfill the promise to God, and do not violate the agreement. And those who join what God has commanded to be joined, and fear their Lord, and dread the dire reckoning. And those who patiently seek the presence of their Lord, and pray regularly, and spend from Our provisions to them, secretly and openly,......
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Nov 2018
Spending Wisely – Avoid the Mania Black Friday – Shopping Mania I have no problem with shopping per se. Islam has no problem with shopping, but do we really buy what we need? Or are we sucked into a frenzy of hastiness which is condemned many times in the Qur’an and in the sunnah of the Prophet (peace be upon him)? The mania that is Black Friday which started in the US occurs on the fourth Thursday of every November. It has nothing to do with race, it is to do with......
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Aug 2018
Spending Wisely – Avoid the Mania Spending without Extravagance In Surah Furqan, Allah Almighty describes ibadur Rahman (the obedient servants) of Allah Almighty. Amongst their attributes, He mentions that they do not overspend and they do not act with stinginess, but they take a moderate way between them. And those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, moderate (25:67) And in another verse in Surah Isra, as in many other surahs, we see that Allah Almighty is saying do not squander......
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