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Ibn Taymiyyah : The Sheikh-ul-Islam
Thirteenth century was a turbulent time for Islamic world. The immensely powerful empire of Abbasid Caliphs, which was on decline for a few generations, was totally devastated and crushed by the Mongol invasion. The fall of Baghdad was so brutal and so thorough, that the morale of muslims across the world was at its lowest point. The political turmoil was…
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Imam Muslim – A legacy of accuracy.
In early third Islamic century, in the city of Nishapur, the bazaars were busy with cloth merchants and spice sellers, but beyond the commerce lay the circles of learning and Islamic scholarship. The air of the city was rife with echoes of recitation and debate, and a culture that treated the Prophet’s words ﷺ as a trust to be carried…
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Imam al-Bukhari (رحيم الله): The reviver of Islam
In the second Islamic century, Islamic empire had already spread from Iberian peninsula to Central Asia. A huge number of non-Arab converts to Islam brought a new kind of diversity in terms of languages, cultures and political systems to the larger Muslim community. As Islam started shaping public institutions and daily lives of its newly acquired subjects, new challenges emerged. …
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Stories of Scholars of Islam
Allah honors knowledge and commands believers to ask those who know, and the scholars are the means through which the Qur’an and Sunnah were preserved, explained, and transmitted with rigor and trustworthiness across generations; their lives show how Islamic teachings were authenticated, how rulings were derived with evidence and sound methodology, and how differences of opinion can be handled with…
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Riya: A spiritual disease and compromiser of Ikhlas
Rats in the house are easy to spot and to clean but those small ants which quietly creep inside the house in the dark and feast on the sugar jar may never get noticed. These are how sins are, some are easy to spot and some are deceivingly hidden. A lie, clearly feels heavy on heart and the heart is…
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I Seek Refuge: Anger, Shaytan, and Controlling our Nafs
It starts in the most ordinary ways: the perceived rude tone of a message, a barely recognizable frown on someone’s face, an unintentional cold sigh. Many times, it is just a reflection of your own thoughts, sometimes it is not. You know that moment- when the heartbeat gets louder and the thoughts speed up like someone has pressed fast-forward. This…
