Allah says in Surah al-Anfal, verse 51, ذَٰلِكَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَيْسَ بِظَلَّـٰمٍۢ لِّلْعَبِيدِThat is for what your hands have put forth [of evil] and because Allāh is not ever unjust to [His] servants (‘abeed).” And He says in Aal-’Imraan verse 30, وَيُحَذِّرُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ نَفْسَهُۥ ۗ وَٱللَّهُ رَءُوفٌۢ بِٱلْعِبَادِAnd Allāh warns you of …
Allah says in al-Dukhan verse 27, وَنَعْمَةٍۢ كَانُوا۟ فِيهَا فَـٰكِهِينَ And [a life of] ease, wherein they were amused. And in al-Muzzammil, verse 11, وَذَرْنِى وَٱلْمُكَذِّبِينَ أُو۟لِى ٱلنَّعْمَةِ وَمَهِّلْهُمْ قَلِيلًا And leave to Me the deniers, those of ease [in life], and allow them respite a little. The word used for ‘ease’ here, is نَعْمَة …
The word for fasting in Islamic literature can appear in one of two forms – either الصوم al-sawm, or الصيام al-siyaam. So what is the difference between them, and can they be used interchangeably? Both the word الصوم al-sawm and الصيام al-siyaam are verbal noun forms from the same root – ص و م s …
al-Salāmu ‘alaykum wa rahmatullāh, There is a rhetorical device in Arabic known as al-istikhbaar الاستخبار, which literally means ‘to seek information’; in practical form, it is to ask a question and seek to know the answer. Yet there is a fine line between the essence istikhbaar and the clothes of the interrogative (al-istifhaam – …
