How to motivate yourself for study?
Eating is possible but difficult and unpleasant when you have no appetite. Similarly, study is difficult and unpleasant when you have no curiosity and…
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Guidance for Muslims living as minorities
An academic recently asked me to reflect on the situation of Muslims who live as minorities and are exposed to systemic injustices, marginalization, and, in some cases, threats to their lives and properties. These circumstances…
Ease and Relaxation in Islam
Ease is through hardship. Muslims should be suspicious of any ease which does not involve any effort. The obvious example of that is watching…
How to benefit from the Qur’an
Today I will be talking about different aspects of how we, as believers, can get from the Qur’an the benefit that, by the grace…
Ibrahim’s Supplication(s) in the Qur’an
The first element is an appeal to Allah for provision and security. In the fuller version, this appeal is combined with an appeal to…
Hajj
The hajj represents for Muslims all the hopes and aspirations, all the testing and hardships, and all the consolations, of worship. It combines all…
Ibrahim, `alayhi al-salam:
This man, whom God Himself has praised in the Qur’an as His ¬khalil, is the exemplar of perfected determination to know God, to be…
Be answerable for your tongues
I would remind my brothers and sisters in Islam – those who support me in some degree or agree with me in some ways,…
The Meaning of Du’a
The hungry one calls upon Allah to feed him but food does not fall from the sky. The unwed calls upon Allah to grant…
To my friends, supporters and well wishers
While I am grateful to you for your kindness and good intentions in defending me, on the internet and on social media, from those…
Hope
The difficulties that Muslims are facing in our times belong to every aspect of life. Moreover, very often the loss of the political power,…
Imam Abu Hanifah
Insofar as this talk about Abu Hanifah aims to introduce or present the book, it should pick out its major concerns – to show…
Da`wah
God says He does not love that men say what they do not do (al-Saff). This means two things. (a) Be careful of the…
Questions & Answers on Spirituality
View all Q&A →Prayer of Gratitude for Blessings
Wa-ʿalaykum al-salām wa-raḥmatu llāhi wa-barakātuh! Expressing gratitude to Allah for His blessings is among the essential qualities of a believing servant. When one attains a blessing, receives good news, is relieved of a difficulty, or achieves an important goal, to…
Ijtihad, Gratitude, and Polytheism
Wa ʿalaykum al-salām wa raḥmatullāh wa barakātuh! Mawlānā Muḥammad Zakwān Nadwī has invited me to express an opinion on weighty scholarly themes: the standing of ijtihād, the methodological approach of Mawlānā Ḥamīd al-Dīn Farāhī, the phonetic resemblance between the words…
Knowing oneself through returning to the Dīn
My student, Abu Hanifah Dilawar, forwarded to me the following question: Assalāmu ʿalaykum wa raḥmatullāhi wa barakātuhu, Shaykh. This is a question from a Bangladeshi reader of the Bangla Facebook page who regularly reads your articles. They wrote: “I could…