On Arrogance and Humility Part 2

“To go to feasts without being invited is humiliating and a kind of begging.
Abdullah ibn Omar reports the Messenger of Allah (saws) as having said,
“If one does not accept an invitation he is revolting against Allah and His Prophet. If someone goes to a feast or a wedding without being invited, he has entered [...]

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On Arrogance and Humility Part 1

“Arrogance is a state in which we are convinced that we have the right to be above others. Justifiable self-regard, wihtout comparing ourselves to others and feeling superior, is not the same thing. That is, at worst, vanity. Arrogance is unlawful in Islam. It is considered to be a disgraceful state.

The opposite of arrogance is [...]

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A Ripe Mind

“What my family traditions, my education and my social environment had offered me in the making of my mind, I was from the very beginning of my life, reluctant to rest content with. The bonds of inherited dependance on the past could not hold me under.
The zest of search for truth never forsook me. [...]

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A Poverty of Common Sense

As-Salaam Wa Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahi Wa Barakatahu,
When one begins to live in India, one becomes well acquainted and eventually come to terms with its local customs, practices, traditions, and even highly prevalent social and cultural
injustices.
As history has shown, neither education, nor intelligence has ever been a panacea for Ignorance (capitalized here as it is [...]

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Science Sits Up

Scientists: Natural Disasters Becoming More Common

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Leave for Labor

As of tonight, 8 p.m., I join the Labour Ward, or LT as they call it here in India (LT, like the OT, is a “Theatre”. It’s the British standard term for a room. Why not just call it a room? I don’t know. Influences of Shakespeare? ‘All the world’s a stage. We’re only actors?’ [...]

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In the world, but not of it?

An interview conducted with a Shaykh I admire, love, respect, read and who’s student I one day hope of having the honor to become. A few months back, I had the privelege to not only meet him but attend his Friday Khutbah(sermon) for 4 straight Fridays. I miss his countenance greatly and realize what a [...]

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Response

Wrote this in response on the blogsite, Idle and Craft and decided to share it here as well, in which the blogger wrote of how common it is to blindly give the priority of attention to undeserving and fear-mongering hypotheticals. Her thoughts are absolutely on the mark.
Much of it has to do with the resident [...]

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Lessons

A fox who lived in the deep forest of long ago had lost its front legs. No one knew how: perhaps escaping from a trap. A man who lived on the edge of the forest , seeing the fox from time to time, wondered how in the world it managed to get its food. One [...]

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Operation Eden

Some of the most vividly evocative and haunting pictures I’ve ever seen. The qualit of photography is especially admirable. The photo journalist Clayton James Cubitt expressing his love for his New Orleans heritage post-Katrina is a harrowing homage to the lives of its citizens devastated by a form of tragedy which is all too familiar [...]

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