Allah (ﷻ) answers the Dua of His servants Allah descends every night to the lowest heaven when one-third of the first part of the night is over and says: I am the Lord; I am the Lord: who is there to supplicate to Me so that I answer him? Who is there to beg of Me so...
By Meru Hussain Ibrahim. Our Father. Friend of Allah. A Nation unto himself. Thul-Hijjah is the season that comes to teach us patience, to reinforce to us the milla (way) of Ibrahim (as), to bring us back to La Illaha Ilallah. Many people find themselves in...
“Allâh will accept the repentance of whom He wills. And Allâh is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [Surah At-Tawbah 9:27] When was the last time you repented to Allah ﷻ? And I don’t just mean casually uttering the words ‘Oh Allah forgive me’ to cover all your bases....
By Romina Afghan One of the many blessings of Islam and being a Muslim, is knowing in detail all of the special times of the year, month and week that Allah Himself has preferred over other times, and the rewards of deeds in these special times that our Lord gives...
By Romina Afghan Life is all about connections. The connection we have with ourselves, with our purpose; the connection we have with our loved ones; the connections we make between our experiences and what they mean to us and for us. Connections exist in every...
By Romina Afghan and Maryam Akram The Day of Arafah is here! The best day of the entire year – alhamdulillaah we have been given life and the blessing to be able to see this day when so many others have passed, and when so many others are heedless of its...
By Fatima-Minna I am sat in a little hire car next to my new husband, and we appear to be driving through a field. It’s dark, and we left the city hours ago. We’ve passed through towns and villages, which have been getting smaller and smaller. In the last village...
By Romina Afghan One of the things I have realised as I get older is that we all have blind spots – Those parts of ourselves that are hidden from view, from our own consciousness, until Allaah chooses to bless us with the right situation to bring these blind...
By Meru Hussain For some, the journey to Allah may look like increasing the outward acts of ibaadah ( worship), for me it looked like the journey to Hajj, to travel to the land where my beloved Prophet Muhammad (saw) was born, to travel to the city in which he spent...
By Abigail Maryam Loneliness, along with depression and anxiety, is one of the most common psychological problems today. Teresa of Calcutta once said, “The greatest disease in the West today is not tuberculosis or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and...