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...n. Adam and his wife Hawwa (Eve) were placed in a garden of Paradise and were permitted to enjoy all its fruits except one t...
..., perseverance in calling to truth, the certainty of divine justice, and the reality that nearness of blood does not guaran...
...urah Yusuf 12:18). For years, Yaqub endured the grief of separation from Yusuf. His sadness was so profound that he wept un...
... robbing travelers, and practicing every form of economic injustice. Shuaib's mission focused specifically on economic and...
...n of the prophet Dawud, was granted by Allah a kingdom of unparalleled power and scope — one that has never been matched bef...
...e Day of Judgment to confirm the truth of Islam and restore justice on earth. His return is among the major signs of the Ho...
...le Abu Talib. In a society marked by idolatry, tribalism, injustice, and ignorance, the young Muhammad ﷺ was known as Al-Am...
...tical: they called themselves muslimun — those who submit — just as every true follower of every prophet has always been ca...
...S, in which prayer, fasting, and righteous conduct were inseparable from belief. By severing the link between faith and acti...
...ed this with what appears in some Gospel manuscripts as the Paraclete — the word often translated as Comforter or Helper in ...
...etween what he believed about Isa AS and what the Quran had just said was no greater than the width of this stick. Many cla...
... a sign, scholars explain, of his being among the people of Paradise, since he had recognized the truth that was shown to hi...
...n the date palm orchards — and Salman, for all the bitter injustice of his situation, immediately recognized the landscape....
...ed the dangers of engaging Persian war elephants without preparation.
Umar ibn al-Khattab was stabbed by Abu Lu'lu'ah Firuz, a Persian slave of al-Mughira ibn Shu'ba, while leading the Fajr prayer in Masjid al-Nabawi. Abu Lu'lu'ah
...n Ubaydullah, and Zubayr ibn al-Awwam led a force demanding justice for the blood of Uthman and opposing Ali's caliphate. A...
...ghtly-Guided Caliphs and one of the ten companions promised Paradise.
...remains a beloved martyr and a symbol of standing against injustice, with the day of Ashura retained as a day of voluntary ...
...ed empires. Abd al-Malik also Arabized the administrative apparatus: Greek, which had served as the bureaucratic language of...
...hir, the Hindu ruler of Sindh, and his refusal to provide reparations. Al-Hajjaj ibn Yusuf, governor of Iraq, dispatched his...
...of Medina and was known for his piety, legal knowledge, and just administration. His first act as caliph was to dismount fr...
Umar ibn Abd al-Aziz's short caliphate of two and a half years (99–101 AH) was distinguished by an extraordinary program of reform that touched fiscal policy, p
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah was born in Harran in 661 AH, just five years after the Mongol sack of Baghdad. Growing up as...
...i Talib who had returned from Abyssinia, joined the Muslims just after the victory.
...maternal uncle of the Prophet ﷺ and one of the ten promised Paradise, directed the battle from a position due to illness, pr...
...d to give allegiance until Uthman's killers were brought to justice. The two armies faced each other for months on the bank...
...f Sindh under the young Umayyad general Muhammad ibn Qasim, just seventeen years old at the time, brought the Indus Valley ...
...orst military disasters suffered by the Crusader states, comparable in scale to Hattin. The Ayyubid sultan of Egypt, al-Sali...
... place during the caliphate of Abu Bakr al-Siddiq, who died just before news of the victory reached him. The Byzantine comm...
... the Second Battle of Tarain. This time he made thorough preparations, including training his cavalry to avoid the Rajput el...
...ded Basra and Kufa, and established the office of Qadi. His just rule earned him the title al-Faruq.
...and ordered the first systematic compilation of hadith. His just reign lasted only two and a half years.
...marked the beginning of a period where temporal power was separated from the caliphate, with various regional dynasties hold...
...markable early example of cross-cultural scholarship and comparative religion.
...uthern Spain. His encyclopedic works include al-Muhalla (comparative fiqh), al-Fisal (comparative religion), and Tawq al-Ham...
...ied in Cairo. He was renowned for his fearless advocacy for justice.
Imam Yahya ibn Sharaf an-Nawawi died at just 45 years old, having produced an astonishing body of schol...
...is poetry in Urdu and Persian inspired the movement for a separate Muslim homeland in South Asia. His philosophical works, c...