How to Memorise the Qur’an Course

As-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah How to Memorise the Qur’an Course Course information: This is an intensive 1-month course which has been designed to be taken before embarking upon hifdh. The course will go through specially-made coursebooks to help inspire...

The foremost will be foremost

As-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah “And those foremost, will be foremost. Those are the ones brought near.” [al-Waqi’ah: 10-11] The sabiqun – those who are foremost in good deeds in this world – will be sabiqun (foremost) towards Paradise...

He turned to you so you could turn to Him.

As-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah When Ibrahim and his son built the Ka’bah, their du’a included this: “…Our Lord, and make us Muslims (submitting) to You and from our descendants a Muslim nation (in submission) to You. And show us our rites...

A simple reminder to dispel distress

As-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah “We have not sent down the Qur’an unto you to cause you distress. But only as a reminder to those who fear (Allah).” [TaHa: 2-3] The Qur’an never causes distress – rather, it expels all distress. But look...

‘I don’t think it ends like that.’

As-salamu `alaykum wa rahmatullah Shaykh al-Maghamisi mentions an interesting story of a Bedouin who once walked past a man reciting the Qur’an. The man was reciting the verse below from Surah al-Ma’idah: وَالسَّارِقُ وَالسَّارِقَةُ فَاقْطَعُوا أَيْدِيَهُمَا...