September 7, 2020

    INSURANCE AND ASSURANCE OF THE FUTURE – PART 1

    We all seem to be living in a pressure cooker nowadays. People around us are stressed, burnt out, their faces…
    August 26, 2020

    GRAPES

    GRAPES Qur’anic Reference: Surah An-Nahl:With it He causes to grow for you the crops, the olives, the date-palms, the grapes,…
    October 23, 2020

    RAMADAN AND SELF RESTRAINT

    Fasting is prescribed for all believers, and the word “siyam” means to restrain or abstain. In the early days, people…
    September 7, 2020

    MY GOAL IN LIFE: THE REAL RETIREMENT PLAN -PART 1

    My Goal in Life v What Allah Wants Many jobs now offer retirement plans, or shares in the company or…
    October 26, 2020

    BUILDING BRIDGES WITH THE NON-MUSLIM COMMUNITIES -PART 1

    The power of one individual We are privileged nowadays to have information at our fingertips, to be literate, and be…
    September 7, 2020

    VISITING THE ILL

    This is never a comfortable topic, because visiting and taking care of the ill is not something that is pleasant.…
    September 2, 2020

    THE MAN FROM SURAH YA-SEEN

    Little personal detail is told of the man from Surah Ya-Seen. Yet, Allah SWT loved him to the extent that…
    October 26, 2020

    PART 5 – CHARACTERISTICS OF A HYPOCRITE

    Hypocrisy occurs when one outwardly claims to be Muslim but his heart secretly harbours disbelief in various degrees. Hypocrisy is…
    October 27, 2020

    PARTING ADVICE

    Marriage is the nucleus of the ummah. Islam would not have flourished
    September 11, 2020

    MUSA AS – PART 5

    Many people think that the story of Musa AS ended after the crossing of the Red Sea. However, events continued…
    September 1, 2020

    PART 41 – HOLDING TO THE ROPE OF ALLAH

    Reported by Jabir bin `Abdullah (RA): The Messenger of Allah (SAW) said, “The dearest and the closest of you to…
    September 1, 2020

    PART 34 – THE UPS AND DOWNS OF LIFE

    Wisdom and faith will never flourish in the heart unless the heart is humble, and without the love of dunia,…
    September 1, 2020

    PART 27- EARNING ALLAH’S LOVE

    We should increase doing what Allah loves, and abstain from what Allah does not love. We should inculcate this as…
    September 11, 2020

    AYOUB AS

    Ayoub (Job and also spelt Ayyub) AS was of the progeny of Ibrahim (Abraham) AS through his second son, Ishaq…
    September 1, 2020

    PART 45 -EMBRACING THE HALAL AND ERADICATING THE HARAM

    Consider how we make decisions. We get married for example, because we want to escape our situations at home, but…
    October 23, 2020

    THE TRUE REWARDS OF RAMADAN

    There are various ahadeeth which explain the rewards of Ramadan, and the rewards are indeed plentiful. One such hadith mentions…
    September 2, 2020

    PART 9 – CLEANING THE DIRT

    If it were that simple, then why does guidance still elude some of us? The clue is in Surah Mutaffifin…
    September 11, 2020

    MUSA AS – PART 2

    A New Life Having killed a man, and knowing that the Pharaoh and his men were hot on his heels,…
    August 27, 2020

    WATER AND KOHL … AND THE TONGUE

    A woman came to Rasulullah SAW, asking advice about what was the best for her, meaning as a woman. He…
    August 26, 2020

    HONEY

    And your Lord inspired to the bee, "Take for yourself among the mountains, houses, and among the trees and [in]…
    September 11, 2020

    JUST PARENTING

    Two children were eating ice cream. The younger one dropped hers on the floor and started crying. So the father…
    September 7, 2020

    SANDCASTLES

    When you walk along the beach, a common sight is that of children and sometimes adults, building sandcastles. They scoop…
    September 7, 2020

    I CAN’T FOCUS – PART 2

    If you were informed of an exam which will determine the rest of your career, you will appreciate its importance.
    September 7, 2020

    MARRYING SOMEONE WHO IS MUSLIM IN NAME ONLY?

    Many are willing to marry a non-Muslim provided that the person reverts to Islam from a paperwork point of view.…
    September 7, 2020

    DO NON-MUSLIMS HAVE RIGHTS OVER US?

    Do non-Muslims have rights over us? I was shocked when a Muslim acquaintance once claimed that non-Muslims have no rights.…
    October 23, 2020

    RAMADAN – COMPASSION AND CARING

    Fasting as an institution for the purification of the soul is common to all the divine religions (Judaism, Christianity and…
    October 26, 2020

    THE ART OF DA’WAH PART 5

    Example of the Prophet SAW and what we can learn from it Rasulullah SAW did not simply sit in the…
    September 7, 2020

    PART 2 – PATIENCE OF THE EARLY BELIEVERS

    The Muslims who were tortured for their faith in the early days of Islam patiently bore the brutality against them…
    September 7, 2020

    22. UNDERSTANDING THE ENEMY

    Allah has advised us that Shaitan is your enemy, so make him your enemy. If you knew that you had…
    September 11, 2020

    YUSUF AS – PART 1

    Yusuf AS Part 1 The life story of Yusuf (Joseph) AS is famous because of the number of trials that…

    Daily Hadith

    Reported by Abu Hurairah (RA): The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “The upper hand is better than the lower one (i.e., the spending hand is better than the receiving hand); and begin (charity) with those who are under your care; and the best charity is that which given out of surplus; and he who asks (Allah) to help him abstain from the unlawful and the forbidden, Allah will fulfill his wish; and he who seeks self-sufficiency will be made self-sufficient by Allah”.
    [Al-Bukhari].

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