Some Spiritual Reflections on CoronaVirus… How to Stay Calm?! 🦠
It’s been quite an eventful year for the world and for me on the personal level.
It’s been quite an eventful year for the world and for me on the personal level.
“Are you pleased with your achievements, lifestyle, convictions, career, beliefs and character?
Been away for a while and so happy to connect with you again in another note coinciding with a national festival in my dear country Egypt, celebrating the 36th memory of Sinai Celebration.
The Quran, the words of God, and the last of all revealed scriptures, answers the chief philosophical questions relating to the meaning of life and the purpose of existence; Who am I? What is the meaning of life? Why am I here? What is the significance of life?
In the wake of the conquest of Mecca, in the eighth year after the Hijrah, most of the Arabian Peninsula communities wittingly entered the fold of Islam.
“It is incumbent upon me to increase your grants and livelihoods and fix up, for you, every means of defence. It is incumbent upon me not to throw you into jeopardies, nor confine you in your front posts; and I pledge that if you stay away on missions, I will be responsible for your families …”
“There’s a clear and repetitive stress in the Quran and Sunnah on the importance of working hard, excelling whatever is done, and fulfilling the higher aims of living as servants of Allah SWT and his loyal vicegerents on earth; i.e. developing communities and enjoining what’s in their best.”
In my view, integration, whether for Muslims amongst themselves, Muslims living in Non-Muslim Communities, or Non-Muslims living in majority Muslim Communities, is the same-
Even beyond the realm of human ties and relations, love is said to bound the Servant-God relationship, the God-Prophet Relationship, and love for one’s Deen (religion), that is Islam-
“Oppressed, downplayed, second in importance and representation”– sheer heresy.. “To be avoided, weak, and marginalized” — complete ignorance and total deviation from the truth. Beyond misconceptions, whether purposeful, manipulated or unintentionally spread, what do women mean to Islam and Muslims?
I was contemplating the human relation with Almighty Allah, and stopped at many verses in the Quran highlighting how special and primarily unique it is.
“Life is not meant to be easy or explicitly enjoyable. Fun is there, and comfort is there.. but with a limited share, and not with the sole aim of making human beings suffer but rather to know that whatever fun and pleasure attained in this worldly life, they’re but short-lived and conceiving …” Whereas eternal…
“Be watchful of what the West wants you to think, believe and the lie it presses you to live, for this is the modern method of war. Sending warships is too classical, yet would take place when we Muslims are so warn out by other methods exploited against us- remember; this is what happened in…
“Laws we abide by contradict our religion and fundamental doctrine. Cultures we adhere to do gainsay the core of our beliefs and faith. And role models we cling to and look up to dispute the heart of our prime identity- that is Islam. The latter is what I plan to tackle starting today and for…
The concluding days of the Blessed Month of Ramadan are about to start, those days of Salvation, the days that carry the Night of Al Qadr, or the Night of Decree. So have you readied your heart, mind and energy? Dear Brothers and Sisters, Assalamu alikum, It’s been like three weeks since I last talked…