Quranic Reflections – Juz 2

Quranic Reflections – Juz 2

“And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient.” [2: 155] Loss. A dark and bitter time that many of us have passed through and miraculously pulled through. Loss of wealth...
Maintaining our Islamic Identities

Maintaining our Islamic Identities

The age we live in today is an age of trial and tribulation, especially for the Muslims living in the non-Muslim societies of the West. You find many of them trying to strike a balance between their Islamic and Western identities. You find that when Islam is attacked...
Quranic Reflections – Juz 1

Quranic Reflections – Juz 1

“…Call upon your Lord to bring forth for us from the earth its green herbs and its cucumbers and its garlic and its lentils and its onions.” [Moses] said, “Would you exchange what is better for what is less?” [2: 61] How many times has the world dazzled us so we...
Disease of the Heart

Disease of the Heart

The diseases of the hearts transmit just like the diseases of bodies, so be careful of sitting with those who possess them: { وَإِذَا رَأَيْتَ الَّذِينَ يَخُوضُونَ فِي آيَاتِنَا فَأَعْرِضْ عَنْهُمْ حَتَّىٰ يَخُوضُوا فِي حَدِيثٍ غَيْرِهِ } “And when you come across...
Allah’s Forgiveness

Allah’s Forgiveness

Allah does not punish a society due to its sins as long as it confesses and seeks forgiveness. But when sins become legalized, seeking forgiveness becomes absent and the punishment arrives: { وَمَا كَانَ اللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمْ وَهُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ } “And Allah would...

Allah’s Punishment

When Allah’s punishment befalls, it is not avoided by trying to find away around it, but rather by removing the causes of its occurrence; for there is no fleeing from His punishment: { قَالَ سَآوِي إِلَىٰ جَبَلٍ يَعْصِمُنِي مِنَ الْمَاءِ ۚ قَالَ لَا عَاصِمَ الْيَوْمَ...