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I thought this was beautiful:
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ياحامل القرآن قد خصك الرحمن
O bearer of the Qur’an! The Most Gracious has chosen you,

بالفضل والتيجان والروح والريحان
with grace and crowns, and with life and satisfaction.

يادائم الترتيل للذكر والتنزيل
O constant reciter of The Remembrance and The Revelation!
بشراك يوم رحيل ستفوز بالغفران
Your glad tidings on the day of departure (is [...]

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An excellent resource on the Names of Allah ta’ala has been prepared by the AlMaghrib Qabeelat Nurayn. Here is an excerpt:

Click here to download.

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We are constantly bombarded in this society with diet after diet, new ways to loose weight or supposedly be ‘healthy’. As Muslims, we know that Allah ta’ala sent the Qur’an to us as a huda, a guide. Not only is the Qur’an a guidance for us in our beliefs, our worship and character, but we [...]

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“Tawfeeq” is often times translated as “success” or “ability”, but tawfeeq has a much deeper meaning.
Shu’ayb alayhi salaam says to his people,
وَمَا تَوْفِيقِي إِلاَّ بِاللّهِ
And my tawfeeq is only from Allah. (11:88 )
Tawfeeq from wow fa qaaf, and it literally means reconciliation or to agree. Tawfeeq is the coming together of all means that enable [...]

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عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: َقَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَآلِهِ وَسَلَّمَ: “إِنَّ الرَّجُلَ لَتُرْفَعُ دَرَجَتُهُ فِي الْجَنَّةِ فَيَقُولُ: أَنَّى لِي هَذَا؟فَيُقَالُ: بِاسْتِغْفَارِ وَلَدِكَ لَكَ”
. ، وابن ماجه (2/1207 ، رقم 3660) ، والبيهقي (7/233 ، رقم 14116). وأخرجه أيضًا: ابن أبى شيبة (6/93 ، رقم 29740) ، والطبراني فى الأوسط [...]

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Allah ta’ala says at the end of the first juz,
صِبْغَةَ اللَّهِ ۖ وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ مِنَ اللَّهِ صِبْغَةً ۖ وَنَحْنُ لَهُ عَابِدُونَ
The “sibghah” of Allah, and who can be better than Allah in “sibghah”? And we are His worshippers. (2:138 )
Sibgha means coloring or dye, that is not the original state of something. It is the [...]

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The believers contemplate on the ayaat of Allah that have been left upon the earth, and only they see the creation around them as ayaat.
Allah ta’ala says,
وَتَرَى الْأَرْضَ هَامِدَةً فَإِذَا أَنزَلْنَا عَلَيْهَا الْمَاءَ اهْتَزَّتْ وَرَبَتْ وَأَنبَتَتْ مِن كُلِّ زَوْجٍ بَهِيجٍ
“And you see the earth barren and lifeless, but when We pour down rain on it, [...]

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How many times have we heard this duaa in our lives: Rabbana aatina fid-dunya hasanah, wa fil-akhirati hasanah, wa qinaa athaban naar. Have we ever contemplated how complete this duaa is?

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Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) uses amazing parables in the Qur’an that strike fear, awe and amazement in the hearts of the believers. Throughout the Qur’an, Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) draws parables for us to convey the importance of certain topics, to extract lessons from them and so that we may ponder and reflect over them. We hear [...]

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I did not write this poem, but it was exactly what I needed to read tonight. I ask Allah ta’ala to bless the writer of this poem with the delights he has written about…and more, Ameen.