Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: January 17, 2013
As for truthfulness (sidq), Allah says: "O you who believe! Have fear of Allah (taqwa) and be with the truthful." (9:120) "Be among the truthful" because the one who sits with someone is influenced for good and evil. Nature is a thief. A man copies the one he mixes w...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: January 31, 2013
Dont get Lost in the Debate
! Sometimes we get so lost in the discussion we tend to overlook other basic etiquette that is required when engaging in debate. We are often overcome with emotion and lose focus of the fact that the person we differ with is still a musli...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: February 03, 2013
18 Precious advices from Ameer'ul Mui'mineen Umar ibn Al Khattab RA Hadhrat Saeed bin Musayyib RA reports that there were 18 guidelines that Hadhrat Umar RA formulated for the people, every one of which is filled with wisdom. He said, (1) When someone disobeys Allaah i...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: February 04, 2013
The Dead Need Support Not Those Who Are Alive A Conversation between Maulana Umar Palanpuri and a Christian priest in South Africa. Assalaamu wa alay wa rahmatullaah wa barakath, Paraphrasing an anecdote from the life of a great scholar of the past century con...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: February 06, 2013
Advices of Hakim al-Ummah: Part One An original Deoband.org article By Hakim al-Ummah Mawlana Ashraf Ali Thanawi Translated by Shaykh Yusuf Laher Foreword In the name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful, and peace and blessings upon His final Messenger...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: February 07, 2013
On Arrogance, Humbleness, and Inferiority Complex By Khalid Baig It has been called ummul-amradh, or the root of all sicknesses of the heart. Prophet Muhammad, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, warned that a person having even an iota of it in his heart will never enter para...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: February 07, 2013
Lessons of humility from our akabirin Compiled by Ibn Rashid Ahmad al-Qasmi In the dawra tafsir conducted during the Ramadan of 1432 H. Mufti Zar Wali Khan (Allah protect him) [of Jami'ah Arabiyya Ahsan al-'Ulum Karachi] mentions an incident of the humility and generos...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: February 17, 2013
Back to the Basics: Adab [Following is the transcription of a talk delivered by Shaykh Kamaluddin Ahmed at the Islamic Centre of NYU during July 2007] Today I thought that we would go back to the basic, which is ibadah. Because a basic or a foundation is something th...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: May 14, 2013
Bismillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala jamiil ambiyai wal-mursalin wa ala ahlihi wa sahabihi ajmain, amin. We send our Hamd to Allahu ta'ala for this invaluable opportunity given to us to be with our brothers once again. It is one great blessing to g...
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Author: Abu Taalib Deobandi | Published: May 14, 2013
Bismillahi wa salatu wa salamu ala Rasulullah wa ala jamiil ambiyai wal-mursalin wa ala ahlihi wa sahabihi ajmain, amin. We send our Hamd to Allahu ta'ala for this invaluable opportunity given to us to be with our brothers once again. It is one great blessing to g...
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