MESSAGE OF DAY

One who usurps the right of another will have wronged not only that person, but as they have committed a wrong necessitating punishment in the Hereafter, will have primarily wronged themselves.

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.

Suffering brings the human being to maturity. Rocks along the beach struck for centuries by the waves have thus been freed from roughness and have become as strong as granite.

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.

Our Lord, forgive me and my parents and the believers the Day the account is established.” Ibrahim-41

Let us be vigilant, as this fleeting worldly life of trial is but only once. It can neither be repeated nor made up for.

‘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.”

Submission to Allah turns the fire into a rose garden.

The believer possesses as sensitive a spirit as to know from their countenance those in need, those who cannot beg from the people due to their virtue and sense of shame.

Suffering brings the human being to maturity. Rocks along the beach struck for centuries by the waves have thus been freed from roughness and have become as strong as granite.

The greatest oppressor is your own carnal self. The oppressor in the outside world can, at most, take your fleeting life. But the oppressor inside you takes aim at your eternal life in the Hereafter.

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.

Sometimes a sin requires a thousand tears for its forgiveness, while sometimes a single tear coming from the heart cleanses a thousand sins.

‘Ali, may Allah be well pleased with him, says: The believer is an altruistic person. They are those self-sacrificing and high-minded individuals who are able to put the wellbeing of their fellow believer before their own wellbeing.

Knowledge is ‘useful knowledge’ only to the degree that it brings us closer to experiential knowledge of Allah (ma’rifa). The greatest ignorance is not knowing servitude to Allah.