Facing the kabah, the boy stood While, from his eyes, tears poured His body was motionless as wood Full of awe for his majestic Lord…

 عن أبي هريرة قال قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه و سلم إن الله لا ينظر إلى صوركم و أموالكم ولكن ينظر إلى قلوبكم و…

When the heavens wept over man’s foul deeds and the cursed one was well pleased When the world groaned and sighed, and from the dark…

With bated breath and trembling hearts, we wait With eyes uplifted like cupped palms, we wait With yearning equal to the vast sea, we wait…

قال الله تعالى: و تلك الأيام نداولها بين الناس “And those are the times which We rotate among the people.” (Sūrah Ālī Imrān, Āyah: 140) We…

You cut Joy at the root You wreck the fresh blush of Youth O, ravager of Beauty and fleeting Fame Even the dead hearts tremble…

From day wo’k, infinite pay? On the day of Absolute Justice, from their very heart even the polytheist will shout, “truly you have no peer!”…

He [Ibn al-Jawẓī] wrote, “As for that which has been narrated that Nūḥ’s privates were uncovered and Ḥām did not cover it due to which…

Taken from Ḥujjatullāh al-Bāligha It may be thought that Divine laws have no benefit, that there is no connection between actions and their recompense, and that…

The following is taken from pages six hundred and one to six hundred and two of the muassas al-risālah print of Sīyar ‘Alām al-Nubalā: Yahya…