By Dr Yasir Qadhi
“You will realize that over-enthusiasm and strongly held opinions are the quintessential signs of being young. Don’t judge others who disagree with your views too harshly: you just might find yourself holding those same views a few years or decades down the line!”
By Khalil Moya
Mother of the Believers, Aisha R.A. said: “None of you will Believe until you trust in Allah more than you trust what is within your hand.” The Holy Quran asks you and me: ” Who is there who will loan to Allah a beautiful loan?” Allah promises us rewards as big as the heavens and the earth…
By Shaykh Hamza Yusuf Hanson
“… in the chaotic tenor of our current culture, we lack an understanding the ancients deemed self-evident: the need for what the Japanese called bushido, the Arabs called “futuwwa,” and what we in the West once called paideia — a type of chivalrous education for young men, where they were challenged to “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of the world,” as Aeschylus put it. This is what we lack. Youthful vigor should be channeled to engage in study of the normative Islamic tradition with an emphasis on the tools of learning. With knowledge to ground them, they can face the complexities and challenges of our time with wisdom, not rage.”
By Dr Husni Hammuda
“One of the things we can do in the last 10 days is to “bring the night to life” (ihya al lail). We do this by prayer, dhikr (Remembrance) of Allah, and reading the Quran, getting closer to Allah’s Book…”
By his son, Leo Eaton
“It saddened my father – but never surprised him – to see how quickly his brothers and sisters in faith take offence and fight viciously amongst themselves over matters that mean nothing to God. But as he liked to say, “faith alone comes from God; religions come from man, and human nature does not easily adapt itself to the requirements of faith. The Prophet is reported to have said that, out of a herd of a hundred camels, you are lucky to find one good riding beast.” Read more….
Shaykh Hamza Yusuf:
“Muslims are constantly being accused of not condemning these types of attacks, even though I don’t have any control over what other people do, and they don’t represent me or my faith. Nobody associates all Seventh-day Adventists with David Koresh, who belonged to a splinter sect, or all of Judaism with Meir Kahane. But when these things happen, the whole religion of Islam is besmirched. We’re trapped in this constant cycle of: events, condemnation; events, condemnation. And then people still say, “Why don’t Muslims condemn these things?”
By Khalil Moya “If you described the full list of things a believing Muslim does in Ramadan, the average non-Muslim in the street would say that they couldn’t do it. It’s ‘Mission Impossible,’ but you and I know that with Faith and Taqwa, Allah makes the impossible possible…”
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Imam Ali says: “The sin that makes you sad and repentant, is more liked by Allah than the good deed (years of pious personal prayer) which turns you arrogant.”
