Muawiya was a ruler whose capital was Damascus.
He said: “Indeed our land is a holy land !”
To which Saasaa Bin Souhan replied:
“For sure, a land is not made holy or unholy by anything.
Good deeds maketh holy!”
Me, unjust and ignorant
After a stressful time this year and just today, I realised how unfair and ignorant, deep down, I am.
May Allah forgive the Me in me.
“Indeed, we offered the Trust to the heavens and the earth and the mountains, and they declined to bear it and feared it; but man [undertook to] bear it. Indeed, he was unjust and ignorant.” Quran 33:72
I am so grateful to Allah that I am not a ruler or a man of power.
Quranic opinions
“Do they not reflect upon the Qur’an, or are there locks upon their hearts?”
Quran 47:24
A democratic scholar
“This that we are involved in, we do not force anyone into it.
And we do not say that it must be accepted by anyone through coersion.
So anyone who has something better than this, let them bring it forth.”
Al-Imam Abu Hanifah [Born ~80Hijra/699CE – Died 150Hijra/767CE]
Truth from distant ethnic groups
“Be with the truthful”
Quran 9:119
One is with whom one loves
” Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds – the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection.”
Quran 19:96
The people of mercy
Society is constantly being re-engineered.
Continue reading “The people of mercy”
Priority
I was driving my Quran teacher.
Continue reading “Priority”
Abu Hurayra walked on water !
“And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth modestly, and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace”
َQuran 25:63
Savant ! Tell me ! Why with safety came fear ?
A Berber of Algeria called Si Mohand Um’hand [born 1845- died 1906] was a sufi poet. Continue reading “Savant ! Tell me ! Why with safety came fear ?”
