Deliberately or naively, cultural imperialism turns people from the colonies into mirror-images of their masters: They become little brown Englishmen, and little brown Europeans. They pose no threat to the status quo, in fact they help to keep things as they are. They reinforce the false notion of superiority of one human being over another, one cultural system over others…
The most important relationship we have, after worshipping Allah alone, is our lifelong love and courtesy to our parents…
Your race, genealogy, your wealth, your social status do not make you superior to any other human being. Your degrees: Ph.D. and M.D. do not upgrade you if they do not provide you with a higher degree of humanism. If they do not make you a better person, they are simply tools for the exploitation of other human beings. Islam knocked down the slave master, dragged him into dirt and elevated the slave to the status of a commander…
Even if we avoid big sins, Shaitan is ever keen to mislead us in small sins that accumulate…..
EM diseases of the heart
Michael was a tragic victim of his own success. This, because the success he found was in the realm of an ever-changing entertainment industry; Michael was neither always relevant nor always admired. His success was set on a shaky pedestal from where it and he was then knocked down…
Prophet Ibrahim [Abraham] sought Allah’s good pleasure, by suffering hardship and rejecting idol-worship. His readiness to make a supreme sacrifice of his son Isma-il [Ishmael] and his unquestioning loyalty to his Lord earned him the title of ‘Friend of Allah.’ His sons became prophets of the Jewish and Islamic traditions: He was the father of nations…
Hidyayah, Allah’s guidance does not just come to anyone, willy-nilly. Only those who seek direction, who seek Divine Guidance sincerely, humbly and with soft, receptive spiritual heart, will find Allah’s guidance…
