If one examines very closely the verses of the Qur’an, one will see that at different points in the Qur’an Allah Almighty gives us indicators or indications that help us in our spiritual development. Throughout the Qur’an one finds that. Certain matters or certain...

   We must learn to open our hearts to the celebration of the praises of Allah Almighty. We must open our hearts to those praises of Allah so that the praises can enter our hearts. We must learn that.  It is almost as if we are diving into the ocean of the Oneness of...

   Most of us, or all of us, try very hard to carry out the rules and regulations of Islam. I think that all of us pray five times a day, give zakah when it should be given, fast when fasting has to be done, and go on haj and umrah when we are by the means. These...

Many of us, when we make du’a, say at the end of the du’a, as in the Qur’an: أَلآ إِنَّ أَوْلِيَاءَ اللهِ لاَ خَوْفٌ عَلَيْهِمْ وَ لاَ هُمْ يَحْزَنُوْنَ الَّذِيْنَ ءَامَنُوا وَ كَانُوا يَتَّقُوْنَ لَهُمُ الْبُشْرٰى فِى الْحَيٰوةِ الدُّنْيَا وَ فِى الآخِرَةِ Behold!...

   I have had the good fortune to live in this community for a very long time, and I have become very sensitive to things that go on in the community.  Because of my concern with the Muslims, especially now in my senior years, I have been trying to find out what is...

   One of the things that we learn in tariqah is that one is not capable of doing things without Allah’s support.  We must remember that.  I am not capable of doing anything, of even delivering this speech, without His support.  Sometimes Allah grants His support...

   One must always try, when one has the opportunity, to recite the Shahadah, to reaffirm one’s acceptance of the Testimony of Faith.  One says: “O my Lord! I declare to Thee that there is no god other than Thee.  And I declare to Thee that Nabi Muhammad (ﷺ) is Thy...

One of the important teachings of Islam is that when we make our ibadat we must always try our best, as I’ve said on so many occasions, to make it لِلّٰهِ تَعَالٰى (lillahi ta’ala: for the sake of Allah).  Because we are human beings and as the Qur’an says we have...

It does not matter what we do as Muslims, whether we are praying, whether we are fasting, whether we are making du’a, whether we are making dhikr, whatever the case might be, whatever our behaviour might be as Muslims, there’s always just one law that applies and that...