by Naqshbandi Content Team | Jun 10, 2023 | Letters
I imagine sometimes an individual appearing for judgment in the Divine Court. The angels in charge praise all his different forms of ibadat, and then, at the end, they inform him that he was a person that was unfair and unjust when it came to certain relationships. ...
by Naqshbandi Content Team | Jun 3, 2023 | Letters
Sometimes one comes across a statement in the Qur’an or elsewhere, an explanation of which does not satisfy one. There is a statement in the Qur’an, for example: وَ اعْبُدْ رَبَّكَ حَتَّى يَأْتِيَكَ الْيَقِيْنُ Worship Allah until you gain certainty (xv: 99). Many of...
by Naqshbandi Content Team | May 27, 2023 | Letters
I have, over the years, examined people’s behaviour in the presence of the pious. At times I was very pleased with the extent of the adab of some people but I was also very displeased with a lack of adab shown by murids towards the shaykh or to other very pious...
by Naqshbandi Content Team | May 20, 2023 | Letters
In one of the many Holy Traditions, Allah Almighty uses the word “dome” to describe His Protection of the very special pious people on this earth. He says in this Tradition that nobody knows them and they are under His dome. Of course, we can only assume that Allah...
by Naqshbandi Content Team | May 13, 2023 | Letters
I do not know why, but perhaps it is what we call “blue Monday”, I thought a lot this morning [2012] about the divisions in the Muslim community throughout the world. The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) predicted this when he said that the Ummah will be divided in...