How could we acquire patience? And how would patience help keep evil away from us? How could we determinedly stay away from temptations?

The Truth Requires Patience

Allah addresses believers and commands them to worship Him alone and to be always kind to their parents especially when they grow old and weak.

A Divine Call for Kindness to Parents

How’s Ramadan going with you? How do you find yourself, your heart and worship so far? The last ten days of Ramadan are here. Don’t miss out such an opportunity. Learn how..

New Muslims & Ramadan’s Last Precious Ten Days

How did Prophet Muhammad perform the late night prayer? How did he praise Allah? What du`aa’ did he say?

The Prophet’s Tahajjud Prayer

The challenge is far from easy, but the change worth it. For a smoother transition in your life-changing journey, tread on the heels of the Prophet; stand up for the change…

The Prophet’s Guidance for New Muslim Youth

Patience is such a basic quality that a Muslim needs it to shape his life in this world and in the next. Learn more…

Patience: A Tower of Light for the Muslim

Allah’s Mercy encompasses all things. Whoever repents after doing wrong, Allah will accept his repentance, for Allah is Forgiving and Merciful.

Between a New Hijri Year and a Leaving One

In this episode, Sheikh Omar Suleiman goes over a narration that gives us insight into some do’s and don’ts of du`a', especially about praying for patience.

Prayers of the Pious (20): Don’t Ask Allah for Patience

My Mom ’d told me my whole life to be open-minded and to accept everybody, though it was so hard for her to accept this. An American Muslim sister tells of her…

My Journey to Islam: A Worthy Struggle with the Hijab

Accepting this nature of worldly life helps the servant acquire a basic virtue and cross a very important stop in his journey to God which is that of patience with tests.

Patience with Tests: The Eighth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

Despite the unusual environment in which the Prophet Yusuf lived in, he had to carry out his mission of inviting to the way of Allah with perfect manners and excellent disposition

Prophet Yusuf Inviting to Allah: Perfect Manners & Excellent Disposition

Reflection is a marvelous form of worship that pushes people in their path to God. It helps people achieve their spiritual goals. Learn what is meant by reflection in Islam…

Reflection: The Fifth Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

(Save yourself from worrying. Somebody else already took care of your affairs for you.) What is meant by “somebody else”? What is tawakkul?

Tawakkul: The Third Stop of Your Spiritual Journey to God

Islam devotes much attention to the issues relating to the family and strives to establish it on the healthiest and strongest possible foundations.

Islam and the Institution of the Family

While speaking to his father the Prophet Ibrahim (peace be upon him) did not take to logic nor speak in the high-flown language meant only for the intelligentsia. He began his talk in

Prophet Abraham and His Non-Believer Father

What do you know about the Prophet’s Hijrah? What lessons does it offer on the life of a Muslim? And what does it have to with being new to Islam?

Emigration to Madinah: Lessons for New Muslims

Have become a Muslim? How do you see yourself? How do others see you? What do you expect of yourself? Learn here about what you need to see not in the mirror or in others’ eyes, rather on the inside.

New Muslims Searching for Inner Peace (1)

My mother has been there all my life, never failed me once, never. And never once have I ever come to her and just said these simple words…

The Two Words I Never Was Fortunate to Say to My Mother…

How did the prophet deal with converts and what would he have us do today? Learn from the perfect teacher of humankind…

How the Prophet Cared for Converts

Everything good or bad, all moments of happiness or sorrow, pleasure or pain, come from God. What does this practically mean? Living with this fact, do we have to make any effort?

The Muslim and Belief in Divine Decree