It is perhaps universally understood that elders are not wise simply because they have been alive for a long time. They are wise because they have experienced more by virtue of the time they have been alive.
قَالَ مُوسَىٰ أَتَقُولُونَ لِلْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَاءَكُمْ ۖ أَسِحْرٌ هَٰذَا وَلَا يُفْلِحُ السَّاحِرُونَ
“Moses said: Do you say [this] about the truth when it comes to you. Is this sorcery? And the sorceres will not prosper.” (Quran 10:77)
The repentance (tawbah) accepted by Allah is only for those who do wrong in…
When We sent to them two but they denied them, so We strengthened them with a third…
“And who is better in religion than one who submits his face to Allah while being a muhsin and follows the religion of Abraham, inclining toward truth? And Allah took Abraham as an intimate friend.” (Quran 4:125)
Indeed, We have granted you, the abundance (al-Kawthar). So pray to your Lord and sacrifice. Indeed, your enemy is the one cut off. (Quran, Surah Al-Kawthar [Chapter 108])
“…Indeed I have come to you with a sign from your Lord in that I design for you from clay [that which is] like the form of a bird, then I breathe into it and it becomes a bird by permission of Allah…” (Quran 3:49)
The only difference between the Arabic preposition ila (to) and the word for deity in Arabic, ilaah, is the final ha, the letter by which one exhales his breath. Thus, to seek a deity to worship is similar to seeking to release one’s breath: it is obligated by our very physiology…
One of often wonders what Allah meant behind the lightning and thunder of that famous…
Surah Tawba (Repentance): Vereses 18–19
The mosques of Allah are only to be maintained by those who believe in Allah and the Last Day and establish prayer and give zakah and do not fear except Allah, for it is expected that those will…
