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Different Approaches to Teaching Arabic Language
The debate within Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ Among the pedagogical questions that have occupied the educational mind of Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ, and have provoked a profound scholarly…
The Educational Institution Where the Questioner Is Hunted
The relationship between education and questioning is much like that between a lamp and its light. If a lamp exists but gives no light,…
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Reminder: My heart is scattered across a thousand roads
My heart is scattered across a thousand roads; the paths pull at it as winds tug at a small boat upon a shoreless sea.…
Reminder: The dominion of the world and all that it contains is but a disgrace to me
A single glorification from my lips can fill the space between heaven and earth, and a single praise can fill the Scale; and both…
Reminder: When the egg hatches
When the egg hatches and the chick emerges, it passes from the narrow confines of its shell into the breadth of life, entering a…
Finitude and divine judgement
The death of a person introduces a decisive ontological and moral transition. While the living remain agents capable of deliberation, repentance, revision, and moral…
Reminder: I am a flower, and I rejoice in the spring
My neighbour said to me one morning, as he stood contemplating my face for some time: “Why do I see you today radiant of…
Reminder: Do not praise yourself
Do not exalt yourself, for there is no servant whose record is free of both good deeds and sins. All sins arise from the…
Reminder: I long to enter the garden of bliss
My soul said to me: I long to enter the Garden of Bliss. I replied: A noble longing indeed. To aspire to God’s mercy…
Prophet Ibrāhīm 20.02.2026
*Prophet Ibrāhīm ʿalayhi as-salām and the Wisdom of the Five Daily Prayers* This paper is based on a talk delivered by Shaykh Dr Mohammed…
Reminder: I am not the master of the day of judgement
I saw one praying eight rakʿahs of tarāwīḥ and said, “He is lazy.” I saw another praying twenty and said, “He hastens and does…
Over-definition of legal concepts
The phenomenon of over-definition in legal reasoning represents a critical challenge within Islamic jurisprudence. It arises when jurists, in seeking to extract universal principles…
Reminder: Magnify your Lord
Do not boast of yourself, your lineage, your teachers, or your affiliations. Do not let reverence become blind partisanship, nor belonging turn into pride.…
Reminder: Think well of fellow Muslims
Cherish a good opinion of your Muslim brother, for the bond of Islam is the firmest of ties, the noblest of lineages, and the…