• Allah’s Mercy and Love

    But Allah selects for His mercy whom He wills, and Allah is the possessor of great bounty (2:105) Indeed Allah is, to the people, Kind and Merciful. (2:143) Except for those who repent and correct themselves and make evident [what they concealed]. Those – I will accept their repentance, and I am the Accepting of…

  • Allah – The King and The Owner

    Do you not know that to Allah belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth and [that] you have not besides Allah any protector or any helper? (2:107) And to Allah belongs the east and the west. So wherever you [might] turn, there is the Face of Allah. Indeed, Allah is all-Encompassing and Knowing…

  • Allah – The Creator, Sustainer, and Provider

    [He] who made for you the earth a bed [spread out] and the sky a ceiling and sent down from the sky, rain and brought forth thereby fruits as provision for you. So do not attribute to Allah equals while you know [that there is nothing similar to Him] (2:22) It is He who created…

  • Allah’s Oneness

    And your god is one God. There is no deity [worthy of worship] except Him, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful. (2:163) Allah – there is no deity except Him, the Ever-Living, the Self-Sustaining (3:2) Allah witnesses that there is no deity except Him, and [so do] the angels and those of knowledge – [that…

  • Blessed is Allah

    Unquestionably, His is the creation and the command; blessed is Allah, Lord of the worlds (7:54) Blessed is the One Who sent down the Decisive Authority to His servant, so that he may be a warner to the whole world (25:1) Blessed is He who has placed in the sky great stars and placed therein a [burning]…

  • All Praise is to Allah

    All praise be to Allah, Lord of the worlds, The Most Compassionate, the Most Merciful, Master of the Day of Judgement (1:1-3) [All] praise is [due] to Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and made the darkness and the light. (6:1) And the thunder exalts [Allah] with praise of Him – and the…

  • Before Prophethood

    These are my notes from The Sealed Nectar by Sheikh Safiur Rahman al Mubakpuri: His Birth ﷺ :  -born on Monday morning, 9th of Rabi’ul Awwal,  -same year of the Elephant incident  -40 years into the reign of Kisra (Khosru Nushirwan) -20th or 22nd April, 571 CE -significant signs accompanied his birth: -circumcised on the…

  • Family of the Prophet ﷺ

    Wives: Children: Grandfathers: Grandmothers:

  • The Lineage of the Prophet ﷺ

    These are my notes from The Sealed Nectar by Sheikh Safiur Rahman al Mubakpuri: Prophet Muhammad’s ﷺ lineage is divided into three parts.  Part 1: Muhammad bin Abdullah bin Abdul Muttalib bin Hashim bin Abd Manaf bin Qusai bin Kilab bin Murrah bin Ka’b bin Lo’ay bin Ghalib bin Quraish bin Malik bin An-Nadr bin…

  • Religion of the Pre-Islamic Arabs

    These are my notes from The Sealed Nectar by Sheikh Safiur Rahman al Mubakpuri: -Most of the arabs complied with the call of Ismael AS -professed the religion of his father Ibrahim -worshipped Allah, professed His Oneness, and followed His religion Idolatry: -until the chief of Khuza’ah, Amr bin Luhai, came back from a trip…