MESSAGE OF DAY

One cannot expect anything in return without making any effort. We have no right to be angry with anyone without first teaching and communicating to them. If we are to be angry, then we must be angry with ourselves first.

‘Ali, may Allah be well pleased with him, states: “A person’s worth is as much as their wishes and desires.”

Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “Be friends with the (righteous) people, because the marauders of a caravan will be as powerless as that caravan is itself crowded and populated.”

We, all of us, are the students of the school of this world that is an arena of Divine trial. Our education will come to an end with our death and we will be buried with our deeds.

A state of praise, thanks, remembrance, resignation and supplication should be the unchanging attributes of a believer in the changing conditions of life.

Many people are a friend to self-interest. True friendship, however, is to be willing to share in the troubles of a friend as much as in their happiness.

‘Ali, may Allah be well pleased with him, says: “Your souls have no value less than Paradise, so do not sell them for anything less.”

‘Ali, may Allah be well pleased with him, states: “People are enemies to what they do not know.”

As indicated in a Prophetic Tradition: “Beware of the supplication of the wronged. There is no screen between them and Allah.” (Bukhari, Zakat, 419)

Jihad in Islam is aimed not at annexing a piece of land or at bloodshed, but rushing to the aid of the oppressed and to be able to conquer those hearts awaiting guidance.

Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi, may his secret be sanctified, says: “Everything that needs to be given must be given before death takes it.”

Every blessing has a price. Claims to ownership of something the price of which has not be paid is a fool’s errand.

Every blessing has a price. Claims to ownership of something the price of which has not be paid is a fool’s errand.

“My Lord, do not leave me alone [with no heir], while you are the best of inheritors.” Al-Anbiyaa 89

Wealth and riches are entrusted to us by Allah. Our heart ought not be a worldly vault. We must strive to store within it not the world, but the Hereafter.