Muadz bin Jabal r.a said, “Know everything that you want to know, but Allah will not give rewards to you until you devote”.
Our leader, al Imam Abdullah bin Alwi al Haddad r.a said, “The essence from devoting knowledge is to devote from it in what of it is capable of and learn from it as well as teach from it in what it is possibly can teach. Meanwhile, who can know and devote all knowledge? But together with those matters, someone should have faith that he does not reach the perfection of knowledge yet, either in devotion, comprehension, or teaching”, quoted from the book of Tastbit al Fuad.
Sufyan ats-Tsauriy rhm said, “Knowledge calls devotion if devotion receives knowledge and if it is not, then knowledge will leave it”. It means the meaning and essence of knowledge has gone and what left behind are only the forms and pictures that will ask for responsibility to the owner.
Nowadays, there are many western cultures that influence Muslim’s personality; and it happens many times within the young people in particular and Muslim people in general. Most of them are amazed by the western life styles that are not reflecting Islamic cultures. We can see this condition in our daily life such as dressing style, fashion style, moral, and action. Free social interaction, mini dress/clothes that shows aurat (part of body
Heart is like a house, if we live in it, it will be alive, but if not, it will be broken and unhappy. Dzikir (remembering) and obedience is heart’s inhabitant, while dereliction and wickedness is heart’s destroyer. Those who always remember and be obedience, the heart shall always live; and those who negligent and lack of dzikir (remembering), the heart shall die.
Closeness (Uns) with Allah SWT depends on the number of negligence, der
The Natural World and The Muslims
How should a Muslim view and treat the natural world in which he has been placed by his Creator to live his life and work out his destiny in the Hereafter? This is a crucially important question for which every Muslim needs a clear answer.
The question has acquired an added impetus because we are living at a time of unprecedented catastrophe in the human and the natural worlds. The variety, harmony and be
Intuitive Guidance and Blindness of the Heart
Moral directionis a self-propelled energy that, when unobstructed by the burden of sins, spontaneously sets in motion one's whole being toward the reminiscence of the most basic truth: the perennial existence of the One and Only God. In the Holy Koran, the All-Mighty reminds us of a decisive pre-existential event: "When the Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam from their loins, t
Say not even FIE To PARENTS
PARENTS IN QURANA child should respect and appreciate his or her parents every day throughout the year. Allah has asked human beings to recognize their parents after recognition of Allah Himself. Throughout the Quran, we notice that parents are mentioned with appreciation and with respect, even if they are senile. In Surah Al-Isra' (Children of Israel) there is a very beautiful description of how parents are to be t
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Nowadays, there are many western cultures that influence Muslim’s personality; and it happens many times within the young people in particular and Muslim people in general. Most of them are amazed by the western life styles that are not reflecting Islamic cultures. We can see this condition in our daily life such as dressing style, fashion style, moral, and action. Free social interaction, mini dress/clothes that shows aurat (part of body
Heart is like a house, if we live in it, it will be alive, but if not, it will be broken and unhappy. Dzikir (remembering) and obedience is heart’s inhabitant, while dereliction and wickedness is heart’s destroyer. Those who always remember and be obedience, the heart shall always live; and those who negligent and lack of dzikir (remembering), the heart shall die.
Closeness (Uns) with Allah SWT depends on the number of negligence, der
The Natural World and The Muslims
How should a Muslim view and treat the natural world in which he has been placed by his Creator to live his life and work out his destiny in the Hereafter? This is a crucially important question for which every Muslim needs a clear answer.
The question has acquired an added impetus because we are living at a time of unprecedented catastrophe in the human and the natural worlds. The variety, harmony and be
Intuitive Guidance and Blindness of the Heart
Moral directionis a self-propelled energy that, when unobstructed by the burden of sins, spontaneously sets in motion one's whole being toward the reminiscence of the most basic truth: the perennial existence of the One and Only God. In the Holy Koran, the All-Mighty reminds us of a decisive pre-existential event: "When the Lord drew forth from the Children of Adam from their loins, t
Say not even FIE To PARENTS
PARENTS IN QURANA child should respect and appreciate his or her parents every day throughout the year. Allah has asked human beings to recognize their parents after recognition of Allah Himself. Throughout the Quran, we notice that parents are mentioned with appreciation and with respect, even if they are senile. In Surah Al-Isra' (Children of Israel) there is a very beautiful description of how parents are to be t
