Parable 49: What role does the love for the Ahlul Bayet: have in our lives?
It is innately built in to humans that we idolise champions, take lead from and are impressed upon by role models. One of the best [...]
Parable 48: Is faith without deed of any value?
In the Qur’an, faith and pious deeds come together {آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ} those that believe, and do deeds of righteousness, like a needle and thread [...]
Parable 47: Why are problems and hardships ever present in the world we live in?
A passer-by goes by a crystal glass shop and notices some drinking glasses on display on the shop-front that were placed upside-down. After looking at [...]
Parable 46: How does Islam view non-believing countries?
Islam is an innate religion and at the discretion and freedom of each individual. So relations, while keeping freedoms and discretions, has no problem [...]
Parable 45: How should we deal with bitter experiences in our life?
When we sit down to dine, we might have both sweet, spicy, and pickled foods, children may favour the sweets and completely ignore the pickled [...]
Parable 43: For the sake of saving face and avoiding humiliation, are we able to abandon the prayer for rain?
In competitions, sportsmen and women do not say we are too afraid of losing so we won’t enter the sports field. Footballers must participate in [...]
Parable 42: With respect to blaming and mockery on the path of the Truth that we hear, what duties do we have?
Someone hired out a camel to go from Cairo to Abbaseye. The traveller climbed on to the camel’s back and the guide held on to [...]
Parable 41: What is the role of leadership in the Islamic community?
Each movement has several elements to it: The beginning, a path, a vehicle, a guide and a destination. Between these five elements, the guide [...]
Parable 40: Does the personality and status of an individual have an effect on their reward and punishment?
The Qur’an states the following with regards to the wives of the Prophet SAWW: {يَا نِسَاءَ النَّبِيِّ مَن يَأْتِ مِنكُنَّ بِفَاحِشَةٍ مُّبَيِّنَةٍ يُضَاعَفْ لَهَا [...]
Parable 39: What role does the struggle/jihad in the path to Allahﷻ have in building the Islamic community?
The tip of a shovel, due to the striking of the earth and along with the wear and tear it gets as a result, [...]