The following excerpt comes from Neil Postman’s Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. When I first read it I found myself thinking of the Beloved ﷺ’s invocation, “O Allah, I seek refuge with You from knowledge that does not benefit. _ _ _ _ _ Only four years after […]
Tag Archives: Hadith
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Oct
Oct
The Beloved ﷺ told us that a time will come when confusion will reign supreme and believers will be bewildered. It seems we can’t go a week without Muslims online jumping into another moshpit that adds to the chaos and further obscures matters rather than bringing any clarity or benefit to the actions of the […]
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Apr
Apr
A version of this article originally appeared in Healing Hearts يا خير من دفنت في الترب أعظمه *** فطاب من طيبهن القاع والأكم نفسي الفداء لقبر أنت ساكنه *** فيه العفاف وفيه الجود والكرم أنت الحبيب الذي ترجى شفاعته *** عند الصراط إذا ما زلت القدم لولاك ما خلقت شمس ولا قمر *** ولا سماء […]
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Dec
Dec
This article originally appeared in ImanWire Imam Abū Hāmid Al-Ghazzāli in his Deliverance from Error talks about having investigated all the intellectual discourses in order to find certainty. The only discourse he couldn’t intellectually comprehend was that of the Sufīs. He read their books and tried to figure it out, but eventually acknowledged that this was […]