Reminder: Despair is more hideous than the fire of hell
O soul! Beware, beware of despairing of the Spirit of God, and beware, beware of losing hope in…
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A man said to the ascetic jurist *Muhammad ibn Wasiʿ al-Azdi* (may Allah have mercy on him)
Photo from Mohammad Akram Photo from Mohammad Akram A man said to the ascetic jurist *Muhammad ibn Wasiʿ…
See the World Through the Eyes of Mawlānā Abū al-ʿIrfān Nadwī
In the history of human societies there is a strange yet repeatedly recurring tragedy: when a weakness becomes…
Reminder: How ignorant you are of the beauty of Joseph!
How ignorant you are of the beauty of Joseph! You imagined that Joseph’s beauty was confined to the…
Reminder: I made the Scale ashamed
When I presented my deeds on the Scale of God on the Day of Judgment, my soul trembled…
Reminder: The stranger who loses the path of his journey
I was born in Paradise, beside the Lord of all worlds, and it was for me a homeland…
Reminder: Do not be angered if you are called ignorant
Do not be angered if you are called ignorant; for does a person truly resent a title that…
Reminder: Then—death
What is life but a fleeting moment between dawn and sunset: it begins with a cry and ends…
Reminder: Create another world
Wherever you cast your gaze, you behold rampant evil and blazing corruption; wherever you alight or journey on,…
Reminder: Speech is headache itself
Indeed, speech, even when it adorns itself in the garb of intimate supplication and veils itself behind a…