Islamic Guidance

Everything in this universe is a definite proof of the existence of a Creator [Allah] who created it. Those who have sound intellect and natural disposition will understand this fully. Those who reject the existence of Allah do so because they seek tangible proofs which they can perceive through their senses. They contradict themselves, for they believe in intangible things within this universe by observing their signs and effects. 

 Lecturer: Abdul Wahab Saleem

This story is about Luqman Ibn Anqa Ibn Sadun, who was from among the people of Aylah, He was a pious man who exerted himself in worship and who was blessed with wisdom. Also, it is said that he was a judge during the lifetime of prophet Dawud (AS). And, Allah knows best.

And this is a hadith of three individuals from Bani Isra’il, these three individuals, they went out for the purpose of maintaining their family, and while they were walking, it started raining heavily, and then they said to themselves: it’s raining so hard, we can no longer continue with our journey, let us find a shelter for ourselves, so they went to this cave, see what happened next.

We relate a story of a pious man who was tricked by Satan and made him commit few major sins. The Shaitan later deceived this monk into committing Kufr, He was, what you call, a monk but he was a true Christian, who believed in the oneness of god.

This story relates to a small fishing community of Bani Isra’il, during this time, because of their persistent disobedience and stubbornness, Allah decreed many injunctions against them, one of these injunctions was the observance of the sabbath where they completely prohibited from doing any work, it meant that they were not allowed to fish on Saturdays.

A story of a man who had two gardens which produced the best of fruits, he became haughty and arrogant and told his friend, I think this will never perish, while his friend said: praise god for the bounty he has given you, one should whole-heartedly accept the advice of his compassionate brother, as in rejecting his counsellor advice there rests complete destruction and perfect ruin.

The protagonists in this story are a small number of youths, who were the sons of rulers and noblemen. They were of the elite class, and accustomed to lives of comfort and luxury. Even so, they realized that their townspeople were immersed in wrongful practices, Allah caused them to enter into a slumber in the narrow chamber of the cave, a miraculous sleep that lasted for centuries.

Their father had a garden and used to give a portion of his harvest to the poor. When he died, the children did not want to continue on that path so they decided to wake up early and pack up the harvest while the rest of the world slept to prevent the poor people from getting the harvest. One of them tried to make a point but he was shut down. See what happened next.

This video is about the great king Dhul-Qarnain, Allah says in the Qur’an: they ask you about Dhul-Qarnain, verily we established him in the earth and we gave him from everything single matter a way and a path, we eased his affair in every matter, Dhul-Qarnain was establishing justice in a society that was living in chaos and confusion until when he reached the land of the rising of the sun, he found it rising on a people to whom we had given no shelter from it.

The story of the great, pious and righteous prophet and messenger of god, prophet Uzair one time went passed a village that was destroyed, and the inhabitant of that village were no longer there, so he said to himself how would Allah revive this village and bring it back to life, Allah [S] wanted a miracle to appear in the hands of Uzair.