You may have heard the story of a man who committed ninety-nine murders, and, after all these murders, he had this guilt due to which he went and asked a person that he felt was…
Just like good motives have good outcomes, most of what we achieve has to do with our intentions and motives. You have all heard the hadith, “Deeds are judged and compensated based on their intentions.”…
One of the most common emotions we feel is anger and anger is a very specific type of feeling that develops inside a person when a number of things happen. Generally speaking, anger is our…
In the previous talk, we discussed what anger is, the different types of anger and what purpose it serves. Once anger is felt, damage follows. We are forced by anger to do something harmful and…
Allah (SWT) has made the system of teaching and learning such that he has designated certain means (“asbab”) as we call them in Arabic for acquiring knowledge. These means are important because knowledge, in the…
One of the greatest favours upon us by Allah (SWT) is that he gives us people who educate us and take us from one phase of our education to the next. These are our teachers…
Islam came to bring people not only to the correct beliefs, but also to the best behaviors. Whoever was accepting Islam was transforming into a much better individual compared to how they were before Islam.…
Islam invited mankind towards the best of teachings; Islam came with a set of teachings that would be pushing people forward, compelling them to think of those around them and of the future The teachings…
One of the outstanding features of the sahaba (RA) was that, while they were learning, they were applying whatever they had learned. Sahaba (RA) tell us that the prophet (SAW) used to teach them ten…
We started talking about how the best of students, the sahaba (RA), used to learn from the best of teachers, the prophet (SAW). One of the characteristics of the sahaba, when it came to learning,…
We are all students, and a great deal of our lives are dedicated to learning, the various subjects we study come from many sound sources. The teachings themselves are coming from Allah (SWT) and his…
And that attention was such that people became so involved with this book that it was constantly on their minds. What Allah az-Zawjal had said was constantly on their minds, and they were looking forward…
Allah (SWT) has given us one more term for this year. And with every new term comes a new opportunity to keep on doing what we were doing well, and try to improve on it.…
The prophet (SAW) gave the example of those people who abide by the rules of Allah (SWT) and those who do not. A group of people that had drawn their names from a lottery, and…
Every step in life requires some level of courage and some degree of bravery. Yesterday, we spoke about how the prophet (SAW) demonstrated what bravery and courage were all about, and his companions (RA) took…