Tag: spirituality

24 August 2025

Imam Ibn al-Jawzi on the value of time, and the habit of idle visiting that squanders it in gossip, flattery, and backbiting.

21 September 2024

An excerpt from 'How the Generation of Salah al-Din Appeared': al-Ghazali on the delusion of wealthy Muslims who never understood the wisdom of wealth.

16 September 2024

Al-Ghazali's letter of reply to the governor of the Nizamiyya Madrasa, written from retirement, on sincerity and the corruption of scholarly life.

11 August 2024

The meditative contemplation of Islamic scholars: precise observations of creation, from feathers to ants, that strengthen faith.

5 August 2024

Al-Muhasibi's Kitab al-Tawahhum: meditating on death, the barzakh, and the hereafter through vivid spiritual imagination.

23 March 2024

Part two of al-Ghazali on repentance: is regret alone tawbah, and what conditions must accompany it before it counts?

15 March 2024

The second valley of al-Ghazali's Minhaj al-Abideen: the road of tawbah, and what sincere repentance demands of the one who travels it.

9 July 2023

Imam Ibn al-Jawzi ponders the nafs and why its craving for a thing grows the more that thing is forbidden.

6 July 2023

A reflection on logical consistency in our thinking — and the sticking point that atheist evolutionists cannot answer.

6 July 2023

On choosing companions carefully — a forgotten Sunnah in an age of self-help, materialism, and heedless socialising.

6 July 2023

A narration from Muhammad ibn Ka'b al-Qurazi: when Pharaoh claimed divinity, Gabriel spread his wings to strike — but Allah granted respite, for tyrants are on a short leash.