Adil on Faith

"Hazrat Umar (ra) prayed: 'May God show mercy on the man who points out mydefects to me'." "... mix with people and k...

"Two friends, Abdullah and Abu Ali Rabati once started on a journey. Abdullah said to Rabati, 'You are my leader'. Rabati said ...

"Hazrat Abu Darda used to sit by graves. Being asked the reason, he said: 'I sit with such people who remind me of the next world. ...

"Hazrat Ibnul Mubarak said, 'A believer searches for excuses and a hypocrite searches for faults'." (Source: Ihya Ulum-i...

"By God, if I fast all days and pray all nights, spend all my wealth in the way of God without account and if I die on the day with no...

Turn away from the unlawful. Face piety. Step forward from the doubtful. Approach piety. God-fear within reach, duck under the doubtlessly l...

... base it on good spiritual nutrients. "Hazrat Omar drank the milk of a camel intended for Zakat by mistake. He thrust his fingers in...

... can/may/will come around and hack you down. A simple example to demonstrate a simple point: "A man had a cow. He milked his cow eve...

"... If a man takes food for helping his learning and action and God-fear, his food and drink are considered as divine service. For th...

A couple of quotes about the mind in prayer: (1) "... When the mind is not present in prayer, it does not remain idle and is conce...

"God says, 'Don't come near prayer when you are intoxicated until you understand what you say'. Some say that intoxication ...

In performing repetitive ritualistic acts, it is so easy to slip into mechanical mode and to forget the beauty of what we are doing and why ...

"... The Prophet said: 'Your mouths are the pathways of Quran. Cleanse them therefore with toothstick' . The Prophet said: ...

"Hazrat Salman said: 'The Prophet taught us everything even how to cleanse after [answering the] call of nature...' " (Sou...

As well as the conditions to test your sincerity against (see previous post), Imam Ghazzali (may Allah have mercy on him) specifies ten evil...

Just found a beautiful characterisation of debates and the debater in Imam Ghazzali's Ihya-Ulum-Id-Deen. Imam Ghazzali specifies eight c...

"(1) ... purification of the external organs from excrements and filths. (2) ... purification of the body organs from sins and faults. ...

The meaning of 'belief' according to the early Muslim sages: "... with regard to the answer, 'I am a believer if God wills...

"... Another sign of the learned man of the next world is that he saves himself from innovations even though the people are unanimous o...

"... Another sign of the learned man of the next world is that he becomes humble and adopts silence. The effect of God-fear appears on ...