through which Allah guides those who seek His pleasure to the ways of peace, brings them out of darkness and into light by His Will, and guides them to the Straight Path.
As the month of Ramadan moves forward and the days quietly pass, I find myself thinking more about guidance. The more I read the Qur’an, the more I notice how often it speaks about being guided, staying guided, and not losing that direction. It feels less like a distant concept and more like something very personal.
We ask every day, “Guide us to the straight path.” I’ve said that verse countless times in my life. But in Ramadan, it feels differ...
It Is important to realize when Allah sais He guides whom He wills, that guidance is only in the hands of Allah and he gives it based on the means (asbab) taken by the servant to achieve that guidance . The same way rizq and provision is only on Allahs hands and he gives it to whom he wills but the servant is expected to exhaust the means in reaching the provision Allah has decreed for him. So we see in the 2 following verses some of the means of...
There was only one thing I kept asking Allah for after I accepted Islam . my mother’s guidance.
Every Ramadan, my duas were the same. Tears. Sujood. Begging Allah for her heart to open. I didn’t want anything from this dunya more than I wanted Jannah for my mother.
But hidayah… it’s not something we control. Allah gives it to the one who reflects, the one who truly searches.
For years, I spoke to her gently. I explained. I cried. I never force...
I’ve always asked myself, and I guess I’m asking you, if you run into a stranger and he/she gave you his/her ears and heart for one short moment, what idea would you plant in her/his head? How Palestine is unjustly occupied? Why institutional racism is real? Why they should vote for as specific political party? Why they should be kind to their parents? Ascribe to your noblest principles and values?
There is one matter that guides to fixing all m...