Islamic Articles

When Hazrat Saad bin Abi Waqqas (may Allah be pleased with him) conquered Madain, he made an announcement that whichever Mujahid (warrior) possessed any spoils of war should bring it all and gather it...

Someone presented two falcon (Shaheen) chicks as a gift to a king. The king handed both of them over to his falcon trainers so that they could train them to be taken for hunting. After a month, the...

A police officer stationed in Thana Bhawan requested spiritual allegiance (Ba'yah) from Hakim al-Ummat Hazrat Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanvi (may Allah have mercy on him), in response to which he wrote to...

This story took place in Syria, narrated by the owner of a tailoring factory. The narrator of the story says: I was the owner of a tailoring factory. I had a neighbor whose husband had passed away,...

Maulana Faisal Ahmad Sahib Nadvi Bhatkali writes: Our pious predecessors (Salaf) did not give any importance to purely bookish knowledge. That is, if a person did not have teachers and mentors, and...

A man was employed at a grocery store. On one pretext or another, he would keep stealing something from the shop. The owner of the shop was a very well-mannered and trustworthy person. Time passed,...

As soon as they return after burying you, your family's attention will turn toward arranging food for the departing guests, thinking of feeding them before they leave. A week will pass, and the rou...

Alas! There is no one left; everyone has gone astray, everyone has turned out to be worthless, everyone has become negligent. The sleep of death has overtaken all; everyone has swallowed the same dest...

This incident of accepting Islam is both astonishing and instructive. Astonishing because even after a lapse of nearly one and a half thousand years since the revelation of the Quran, no one had notic...

A man had been sleeping comfortably through many nights of severe cold. One day, a passerby walked past him and said: "I will bring you a warm quilt!" The passerby went on his way towards his desti...

The Poet of the East, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, had made following the Sunnah (tradition) of the Prophet his way of life. A unique and insightful incident is narrated in "Johar-e-Iqbal," which reflects A...

Hazrat Abu Qilaba (may Allah have mercy on him) was an eminent Tabi'i and a great scholar of Hadith. He was a student of Hazrat Anas (may Allah be pleased with him). He lived in Basra and was an extre...