Jul 20, 2010

“Are you pleased to marry this girl – with the condition – of giving your soul to Allah?” This is the famous story of Umm Ibrahim and her son. This story was mentioned by scholars like Abu Jaafar al Luban. He narrates: ‘It is mentioned that one of the righteous women in Basra was Umm Ibrahim al Hashimeeyah. The enemy attacked one of the...

Jul 19, 2010

Ibn Hazm becomes soft when talking about love; he doesn’t seem like the strict faqeeh that some imagine him to be. He believes that souls are scattered matters in heaven that meet and descend to earth and join together as soul mates. His theory of love is based on assimilations and similarity in characteristics between lovers; the first part is jesting and...

Jul 5, 2010

Q) I have male friends on facebook, and for a number of months I have been talking to a male friend and we have fallen in love. We haven’t met in person but have contemplated it. I feel bad but I feel so attached to him. Am I sinning? What do I do? A) Thank you for the question. You mentioned that you have some male friends on facebook, and that you formed a...

Jun 30, 2010

Peace be with you. 1. Know that if you do not live within the scope of today, your thoughts will be scattered, your affairs will become confused, and your worrying will increase these realities explain the hadith: “When you are in the morning, do not expect to see the evening, and when you are in the evening, do not expect to see the...

Jun 30, 2010

The 7 Deadly Traps of the Devil Imâm Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah It is not possible to encompass one of Iblees’ evils, let alone all of them. Since Iblees’ evil is of six types, Iblees remains behind the son of Adam until he gets him to do one or more of these six evils. 1) THE FIRST EVIL IS THE EVIL OF KUFR AND SHIRK and enmity to Allaah (SWT) and...