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Debilitating Deeds

Debilitating Deeds

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Allah has forbidden: Things and deeds which tend to undermine one’s active physical and mental strengths; Things and deeds which tend to exhaust the vigour and vitality of one’s self; Deeds which gradually and insidiously impair one’s personality; Deeds which slow one down in the walk of life; Deeds which enervate, incapacitate or devitalize human potential; Deeds which might retard man’s personal development; Deeds which, as human weaknesses, might stand in the way of achieving sublime objectives Allah has used…

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Muslims

Muslims

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Allah gave the name ‘Al-Muslimeen‘ (The Muslims) to all those who would submit to His Commands. هُوَ سَمَّاكُمُ الْمُسْلِمِينَ …He named you all Al-Muslimeen… [Al-Quran Surah 22: Verse 78]  But some of the Muslims do not seem to quite like this name, which was given to them by the Almighty. Some call themselves Sunni, some Shia, some Ahl-e-Hadith and some like to be known as Ahl-e-Fiqh. Some Ahl-e-Fiqh call themselves Hanafi, some Maliki, some Shafi’ee, and some Hambli. Some Hanafi like to be identified as Barelvi and some Deobandi. This is only with respect…

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Integrity and Taqwa

Integrity and Taqwa

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Integrity means moral soundness, uprightness, rectitude and incorruptibility of character. It is all about doing what is right in all circumstances. The word “Integrity” comes from the Latin, “integritas” and “integra” meaning whole, undivided, unbroken, or complete. In the Quran, the word ‘taqwa’ has been used against the word ‘fujoor’ [91:8]. The latter comes from the root f-j-r, which primarily means ‘to break up”. The word ‘fujoor’ means “immorality’ or ‘corruption’ or ‘disintegration’ or ‘impairment of virtue and moral principles’. Hence the…

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Self-Disintegration, Preservation and Development

Self-Disintegration, Preservation and Development

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According to the Holy Quran, human personality (self) has three possibilities: 1. Decay and disintegration: this is termed as ‘fujoor‘. 2. Integration and preservation: this is termed as ‘taqwa‘. 3. Growth and development: this is termed as ‘tazkiya‘.    The aim of life is to avoid decay and disintegration, and strive for integration, preservation, growth and development of the ‘self’.      

Piety, Virtue, Righteousness or Moral Excellence

Piety, Virtue, Righteousness or Moral Excellence

Piety (virtue, righteousness or moral excellence) is not (merely) that you turn your faces to the East and the West; but (real) Piety is that one believes in Allah and the Last Day and the Malaika and the Book and the Prophets, and gives wealth, despite (one’s) love for it, to relatives, and to orphans (or those left alone in society), to the destitute & helpless, to the wayfarer, and to those who ask (for help), and in (freeing) slaves…

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The Quran, Determinism and Free Will

The Quran, Determinism and Free Will

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‘WILL’ is “the mental faculty by which a person decides or conceives himself as deciding upon and initiating his actions”[1]. When we ask the question, “Do we have free WILL?”, the answer depends very much upon what we mean by “free” in this context. If we ask, ‘Is our WILL free from compulsion?’, the answer is ‘YES’ but if we ask, ‘Is our WILL free from causation?’, the answer is ‘NO’. “A man is free from compulsion when he is not restrained or coerced…

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Divisions among the Muslims

Divisions among the Muslims

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The Believers were told categorically by the Almighty Allah, i.e. the One in Whom they believe that all of them were a single brotherhood[1] and that He has named them Al-Muslimeen[2]. But the so-called believers would not like the name Al-Mulsimeen as given to them by Allah but later on would like be known by other names, e.g., Sunni, Shia, Ahl-e-hadith, Ahl-e-fiqh, Ahl-e-Quran, Hanafi, Maliki, Hambali, Shafi’ee, Deobandi, Barailivi, Naqshbandi, Chishti, Suhrwardi, and so on. Perhaps this was not enough…

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