When people attempt to listen to music or watch TV, they are actually searching for one thing: peace of heart. The music makes them sad and the TV scares and manipulates them. True peace is found in a beautiful book sitting there on your shelf: the Qur’an. In it is the stories of the perished [...]

How do you take a good thing and make it better? Answer: by being thankful to Allah for it. Thankfulness is the secret ingredient to happiness on this earth and the hereafter. If you want to enjoy it all, be thankful. Gratitude isn’t only an action of the tongue. It is done through action as [...]

When one thinks charity, money automatically comes to the mind. While money is a fundamental part of charity, it is not the end all. Charity is a much larger term that includes visiting the sick, speaking kind words to people, smiling and so much more. For every limb and joint of our body, we must [...]

There are two weapons, when used, no one can harm your emotions. They are gratitude and patience. True patience is at the time of the calamity. It holds them back and they praise Allah. Immediately they are blessed with a calm that carries them through the calamity, a gift from Allah. Not only is that [...]

The purpose of Islam is to raise the human being to become the most noblest creation of Allah. Nobility comes from taqwa and upright character. Allah’s messenger, sal Allahu alayhi wasalaam, lived the Qu’ran every single day through his actions. How much of the character taught in the Quran do we know? And how much [...]

The bigger the mission, the more one will have to prepare and train for it. So if the biggest mission of our lives is to worship Allah, then how do we train? How did Allah’s Messenger, sal Allahu alayhi wasalaam, train when Angel Jibreel came to him? The answer: with prayers in the night, Qiyam [...]

Almost everywhere one goes these days, there is some sort of attack on the souls chastity. It might be a lewd magazine at the market, or not averting one’s gaze in public or it might be an internet banner ad. One must be extra vigilant to protect their heart. Cupid is not a chubby angel [...]

There are steps one must take in order to be successful in this life and the next. One of the fundamental flaws in self-help books is that there is nothing in it that is fard. Sure, the authors encourage actions, but there is no Lord to direct the souls. Not so in our Deen. When [...]

Our lives boil down to how we spend our days, hours and minutes. If we spend most of our time sleeping, eating or entertaining ourselves, then a life without fulfillment is the only result. The key is to focus on the important things in life, those things that other people may not consider so urgent. [...]

Just as Allah is the Most Merciful, He is also the Most severe in punishment. This is not something that people like to focus on but in order to be saved, the hope in Allah’s Mercy must go hand in hand with massive fear of Allah’s punishment. How many nations before us were destroyed by [...]