Guidance

In his masterpiece, Ihya 'Ulum al-Din, Imam al-Ghazali writes passionately about the evils of not acting on knowledge and the signs of the 'ulama of the hereafter. A condensed version of this lengthy passage was rendered into Urdu by Shaykh al-Hadith Mawlana Muhammad Zakariyya Kandhalawi and produced in part two of Fadail-e-Sadaqat, which was subsequently translated from Urdu into English by M. Tayyab Bakhsh Badayuni. These twelve signs have, under the instructions of Dr. Hanif Kamal, been edited and are now being reproduced on Deoband.org;...
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Know, my dear son (Allah give you knowledge and enable you to please Him), that religious knowledge depends on two things: First: earnestness in acquiring it and severing thought about all that is besides it, since 'ilm (knowledge) will not give you a part of it until you give to it all of yourself. Make the identifier of the goodness of a thing and its despicability your hindrance to 'ilm, since your hindrance to a part of 'ilm or your aversion to it, is despicable...
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The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and give him peace) said: "That person who taunts and ridicules his Muslim brother over a sin from which he has repented, will not die until he himself commits that same sin." For example, you come to know that a certain person committed or was involved in a particular sin and you also know that this person has repented from it. To think low of him or to taunt or ridicule him because of that sin, by...
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Islam has come with an easy and practical Shari'ah. Its effort is limited but its reward is great. There are many amazing examples of a small action carrying great rewards. Its salah is not confined to a masjid, but can be performed in any house and on any piece of land. It does not instruct one to give up this world for the purpose of worship, but gives such panaceas, that convert worldly matters into din (religion) too. A person can be involved in...
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