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Hazrat Maulana Yusuf Banuri (may Allah have mercy on him) once stated in a gathering: One year we went for Hajj, and there was a retired military officer in the group of scholars....
The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) has forbidden lying even to young children. Accordingly, Hazrat Abdullah bin Amir (may Allah be pleased with him) na...
Allah Almighty had blessed Imam Zayn al-Abidin (may Allah have mercy on him) with a very beautiful body. When he passed away and the ritual washer (Ghassal) began to bathe him, he...
The king asked the slave: "Why are you leaving your job?" The slave replied: "There are five reasons." "The first reason is that you keep sitting while I remain standing be...
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 t...
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 teach...
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 swa...
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 Qur...
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-Iqba...
As long as the Christian religion was not aligned with politics, every nation in the world had its own distinct attire. Even now, wherever Christianity has not influenced a nation'...
Such was the level of passion for reading and the importance of time among the pious predecessors that they would continue reading books even while walking. Ibn al-Abnusi says that...
Teachers should not consider it necessary to teach the entire Arabic curriculum to every student. Whomever they see an aptitude in and find to possess a sound understanding, they s...