26 April 2018
Both our Lord’s approval as well as His wrath are hidden in deeds that sometimes appear large, sometimes mediocre and sometimes small. This is why...
Osman Nuri Topbas
25 April 2018
Just as the purity of natural spring water is lost with just a single drop of impurity added to it, acts of worship undertaken murkily,...
24 April 2018
Understanding the Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, is the most important step in servitude to Allah. Without understanding him,...
23 April 2018
The hearts of children born upon the Islamic fitra are like pure earth. They need to be worked. They are a crude ore needing to...
22 April 2018
Life is like a film reel, the length of film that is wound on it unknown. Nobody knows where and when it will end. Every...
21 April 2018
Just as when we hold a magnifying glass under the sunlight the light passing through will burn and bring to ashes whatever is under it,...
20 April 2018
Seek out those in this world whose days are darkness. Guide those who await guidance and rush to the aid of those in need, that...
19 April 2018
Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “If you seek us and our approval, then do not forget that this depends on winning over a single heart....
18 April 2018
The rose attains perfection and beauty by befriending the thorn and through establishing a warm relationship with it. In other words, it gains beauty and...
17 April 2018
Joyously spending one’s wealth in the way of Allah is a great honour. Not just anyone can receive such an honour. Those who are deprived...
16 April 2018
There can be no psychiatric ailments in a society where the Prescribed Prayer is offered in humble, devoted reverence. Allah, glorified and exalted be He,...
15 April 2018
The meticulousness shown in the Prescribed Prayer is a kind of ‘moral report card’ for the believer. It is a mirror to one’s spiritual character...
14 April 2018
The believer should be more concerned with their spirit being hungry than with the hunger of their body, for the garment of the spirit that...
13 April 2018
We need to show familiarity, friendship and closeness to those people of learning and wisdom who have advanced spiritually, that they lead us with them...
12 April 2018
Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “Supplication and worship is togetherness with Allah. For those who are with Allah, both life and death are agreeable. But...
11 April 2018
The deliriums of minds made infirm by unsound philosophies will not save the servant at their last breath, in the grave, at the Resurrection, on...
10 April 2018
Bilal ibn Sa’d, from the generation of the Successors, may Allah have mercy on him, says: “A friend who increases your piety and devotion is...
9 April 2018
Those who lead a person both to the straight path and astray are generally those who keep their company and with whom one has established...
8 April 2018
Dhu al-Nun al-Misri says: “One must be a friend to Allah and a foe to their carnal self, not a friend to their carnal self...
7 April 2018
Those who do not know the wisdom of the soul’s existence, the purpose for its being given to the human being, and its guiles and...
6 April 2018
Neglect of religious training brings with it the scourge of materialism, or the pursuit of worldly self-interest. And this is one of the fundamentals and...
5 April 2018
It is certain that a dark night of the worldly life deprived of the light of belief and acts of worship, and spent in all...
4 April 2018
Every age that passes in heedlessness of Allah and His Messenger is essentially an age an ignorance. Every age that has not been reformed through...
3 April 2018
Wahb ibn Munabbih, may Allah have mercy on him, says: “How strange people are! They weep for the dead, but they do not weep for...
2 April 2018
Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “You are angered by every difficulty, you bear a grudge against every vulgar person. How then, without rubbing, will your...
1 April 2018
Many people are fair-weather friends. True friendship, however, is as much about sharing one’s suffering in times of difficulty as it is about sharing their...
31 March 2018
Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “What do you have? What have you acquired? What kind of pearl have you pulled from the ocean floor? This...
30 March 2018
Those who do not have the courage to dive into the vast ocean of sublime suffering for the sake of Allah, should not forget that...
29 March 2018
Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “If you tremble like grass with every wind, you would not be worth even a single blade of grass, though...
28 March 2018
Prophet Adam, upon him be peace, ate the forbidden fruit, but he repented immediately. Satan, however, saw it beneath himself to correct his mistake and...