And so, my impatient soul! You are charged with being patient in three respects. One is patience in worship. Another is patience in refraining from sin. And a third is patience in the face of disaster. If you are intelligent, take as your guide the truth apparent in the comparison in […]
الْعُلَمَاءَ وَرَثَةُ الأَنْبِيَاءِ The meaning of this hadith is: “The scholars are the heirs of the Prophets”. The Noble Prophet expresses with great eloquence that being a scholar is no easy matter. For since a scholar is heir to the Prophets; therefore in regards to conveying and spreading the truth […]
It is said that best criterion for judging the integrity and sincerity of a reformer is this: What are the changes he had undergone in his personal, social, physical and spiritual life, between the early days of when he began pursuing his cause until he achieved success? For example, in […]
Cry not out at misfortune, O wretch, come, trust in Allah! For know that crying out compounds the misfortune and is a great error. * * * Find misfortune’s Sender, and know it is a gift within gift, and pleasure. So leave crying out and offer thanks; like the nightingale, […]
I shall allude briefly to a most extensive and lengthy truth which occurred to my heart on the Night of Power. Because of the extreme tyranny and despotism of this last World War and its merciless destruction, and hundreds of innocents being scattered and ruined on account of a single […]
‘He is One.’ وَحْدَهُ This phrase announces the following good news, which is both healing and a source of happiness: Man’s spirit and heart, which are connected to most of the creatures in the universe and reach the point of being overwhelmed in misery and confusion on account of this connection, […]
Those who place their trust in Allah and those who do not, resemble the two men in this story: One time, two men loaded heavy burdens onto both their backs and heads, and buying tickets, boarded a large ship. As soon as they boarded it, one of them left his […]
It was the Eid al-Adha while this ‘station’ was being written. One fifth of mankind, three hundred million people, together declaring: “Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar – Allah is Most Great!”; and in relation to its size the globe broadcasting to its fellow planets in the skies the sacred words […]
O my world-worshipping soul! Does your slackness in worship and remissness in the prescribed prayers arise from the multiplicity of your worldly occupations, or because you cannot find time due to the struggle for livelihood? Were you created only for this world that you spend all your time on it? You know […]
One instance of wisdom in fasting in Ramadan with respect to training the instinctual soul is as follows: The instinctual soul wants to be free and independent, and considers itself to be thus. According to the dictates of its nature, it even desires an imaginary dominicality and to act as […]