Who Is Free from Disbelief (Kufr)?
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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,…
Bosnia Journey 2026 — Day 7
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim We set out at eight o’clock, with the breaking of morning, towards Srebrenica. Two coaches carried us, cutting through the mountains of Bosnia…
Bosnia Journey 2026 — Day 2
Bismillahir-Rahmanir-Rahim A Morning of Tafsir I woke for the Fajr prayer weighed down by fatigue. After praying, I let myself rest a short while,…
Bosnia Journey 2026 — Day 1
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A Letter: The Story of My Student Days at Nadwah
My dear one, You asked a simple question—yet it opened the sealed chambers of my heart like the sudden arrival of spring on a…
O Son of Nothingness!
O son of nothingness! O you who were brought into being when once you were not even a thing to be mentioned! Death shall…
“Al-Rāʾid” (1981–1983): An Analytical and Intellectual Study
From the years 1981 to 1983, a careful reading of al-Rāʾid, the Arabic journal of Dār al-ʿUlūm Nadwat al-ʿUlamāʾ in Lucknow, reveals a vibrant…
School of Thought Never Let Me Go
It is with some difficulty that I attempt to express what lies within my heart. My thoughts, observations, and experiences are of the kind…
The Language of Fatwā
ʿAjīb shahr — A strange town holds within it words waiting to be said. In the field of logic, one comes across terms like…
Hifz of the Qur’an
Hifz, in its original and most profound sense, denotes preservation. Over time, however, this noble concept has been narrowly reduced, in popular understanding, to…
The Beginning of Knowledge and the First Duty
Man passes through the pathways of life and casts his gaze upon a lofty palace—its windows gleaming beneath the sunlight, its gardens flourishing as…
Sustainability and Stewardship in the Qur’an and Hadith
The Qur’an and Hadith collectively articulate a profound and enduring ecological ethic that transcends temporal and cultural boundaries. Grounded in principles of tawḥīd (divine…
Proof of the Cow against the Lion
In a remote countryside, there lived a simple farmer. He possessed nothing of this world’s riches but a modest home, a small patch of…
Learn to Awaken the Question
It is said that Alexander the Great, in the prime of his youth, was an exceptional and intelligent young man, sharp of mind and…
Cold is cold, and heat is heat
The history of passion is that, in every age of reason, we ourselves have fashioned the scaffold of persecution. From the early days of…
Fir’awn in the Qur’an
The Qur’an is a rahmah for mankind because it is the guidance for them that can, if they will (and their will is not…