Then she was told, “Enter the palace.” But when she saw the hall, she thought it was a body of water, so she bared her legs. Solomon said. “It is just a palace paved with crystal.” ˹At last˺ she declared, “My Lord! I have certainly wronged my soul. Now I ˹fully˺ submit myself along with Solomon to Allah, the Lord of all worlds.”
👑 If a Queen '...who has been given everything ˹she needs˺, and who has a magnificent throne' can experience such awe and amazement when entering the palace of Sulayman (a), imagine the the joy and astonishment the inhabitants of Jannah will experience when they enter the palaces that Allah has custom-created just for them!
💭 Have you ever encountered something in Allah's creation that profoundly touched your heart and drew you closer to Him?...
last year · Referencing Ayah 2:6, 27:42-44, 91:7-10
Towards the end of Ramadan, I began to share my thoughts on the description of the muttaqeen at the beginning of Suratul-Baqarah. Allah willing, I wanted to continue on from there and look to the descriptions of disbelief and hypocrisy. Like the description of the muttaqeen, their descriptions can tell us much, except this time about the characteristics we should be wary of within ourselves.
We begin to recite once again, we look to how Allah de...