Yearly Archives: 2017

Regarding the significance of dhikrullah or the remembrance of God, Allah says in the Qur’an, itself the ultimate reminder (dhikr) to all the worlds [Surah Sad, 38: 87], the following: “Remember Allah for He has guided you.” [Surah al-Baqarah, 2:198.] “O you who believe! Remember Allah often with much remembrance. And glorify Him morning and evening.” [Surah Luqman, 31: 41-42.] “And men who remember God much and women who remember - God has prepared for them forgiveness and a vast reward.” [Surah al-Ahzab, 33: 35.] Hadith literature is similarly replete with references to the remembrance of Allah: “The servant cannot perform a better deed which [...]

A key part of being productive, is about focusing your mind on what’s beneficial and de-cluttering it from unproductive thoughts. If we can record our inner thoughts and replay them to ourselves each day, we’ll be shocked at how much junk there is and how much brain power we waste on futile things that neither benefit or harm us. These thoughts can be in the form of replaying old “movies” in our heads of things that happened to us in our past or (going to some extreme) future dreams that are never attainable nor part of reality, or keeping thoughts which [...]

Once the believer has remembered Allah and realized his sin, he is now obliged to turn to God in repentance immediately, without any hesitation or delay if he sincerely wants to repent. The postponement of Tawbah is the result of either a deliberate desire to prolong the illicit pleasure derived from the sin, or doubt on the part of an ignorant sinner whether or not Allah would accept repentance from him. In the first case the sinner has compounded his sin and should seek forgiveness for his delay while in the second case he needs to be informed that no sin is too [...]