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Building Good Character, Page 111

Trading Gemstones for Gravel

The great scholar and jurist of Muslim Spain, Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi, tells us that those who prefer the pleasures of this life and who disregard the life to come, are like people who exchange gemstones for gravel…

The Volcano In You

And the big question here is: How did the Prophet (SWS) capture the imagination of all these people and touched their hearts to become Muslims?

Advice to students

In a way, every student is also making a kind of Hegira, a migration by travelling far from their homes and loved ones, in search of knowledge. And at a much deeper level, those who go forth in search of knowledge are making the Hegira or migration from ignorance towards Knowledge, Understanding and Wisdom…

Bombers in our midst

The shocking news that young British Muslims were responsible for the mass murder of innocent civilians in London last week, has hit us all like a tsunami. We are, all of us, still in a state of shock and disbelief…