Title: The Exquisite Pearl Author: ‘Abd al-Rahman al-Sa’di There’s a hadith that leaves me in awe each time I read it, and is amongst the most important advice we can attain in life, where the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: ”There are three things which if they are present in anyone, will cause him
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Title of the book: The Value of Time Author: Shaykh ‘Abd al-Fattah Abu Ghuddah In an attempt to understand how those who lived before us treated the gift of time, I began reading ‘The Value of Time’. We live in an era where time has little value and the accumulation of wealth overshadows our desire
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Book: Four Agreements
Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
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Book Name: Al-Muhaddithat
Author: Sh. Akram Nadwi
Reviewed by: Sr. Amal Saffour
If you thought this 290 page book was sufficiently packed with info and facts (which it is), then it’ll comes as a shock to know it is in fact only a preface to Sh. Mohammad Akram Nadwi’s 40 volume biographical dictionary (in Arabic) of the Muslim women who taught and studied hadith! Upon reading the book and realising the above, one is truly in awe of the beauty of our history and the role our mothers and sisters have played in furthering and developing the deen.
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