Articles by Faizan Nadwi

  Allah says in the Ayah 45 of Surah Baqarah ‘O believers! Seek help through patience and Salah (Namaz)’. Through this Holy Ayah, Allah instructs to seek the help through two important things; Patience and Salah.             When we go deeper into the depth of the meaning of patience, we would surely come to know that the highest level of patience gets achieved through having unshakable control over one-self, emotions and feelings in the most tragic situation of the life, without bringing a word of complain on tongue only to gain the pleasure of Allah. The scholars aver three kinds of patience; Patience when performing good deeds, Patience over sins and patience over trails. We would try to understand three of all in a brief.             Patience when performing good deeds: It is slight difficult to show perseverance in regard of the acts of worship in the best of form...

  The word Hijrah (Sacred Migration) is an Islamic terminology, which refers literally to depart or abandon the evil. According to the Islamic terminology, it means to migrate from the homeland to another place for the purpose of executing Islamic commandments as individual and community with freedom. The Islamic Hijrah takes place to the land where one could be able to perform the Islamic commandments freely. To make this term easier to the readers, a glance at the sacred Hijrah of Prophet Muhammad (May peace be upon him) would be certainly helpful. The moment, Allah’s Apostle Muhammad (S) began inviting people to the religion Islam, except a few enlightened people who embraced it, the majority of the inhabitants of Mecca transformed into his foe and the chain of ordeals & persecutions from the infidels of Mecca rose against him and his followers. They had to go through unbearable tortures and sufferings. They had to encounter the kind of punishments that would make one cringe...