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Hasbullah Shafi'iy

The Excellent Qualities of the Qur'ān

Translated from Imam Jalāluddīn as-Suyūtī’s book on the Sciences of the Quran called al-Itqān fī Ulūmil Qur’ān. Especially known to have written on the subject (of the excellent qualities of the Qur’ān) are Abu Bakr ibn Abī Shaybah, an-Nasā-ī, Abū ‘Ubayd al-Qāsim ibn Sallām, Ibn ad-Darees (ابن

Poetry

Poetry is a glass shattering drink too hot to be contained. It is a technique, that sets words to glass shattering music. In the words of T.S.E: Between emotion and imagination. I say, glass-shattering emotion That spills out in patterned rhymes Like dreams, omitted at other times Scattered,

The Russian Heart

The Russian Heart

Whenever I get the opportunity to visit Russia, I would, God willing, do two things–not necessarily in order–before anything else. I would visit Leo Tolstoy’s grave at Yasnaya Polyana and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s grave at the Donskoy Monastery. My journey through Russia can only properly begin after

Social Media

Social Media

Clothes worn Not to cover But to reveal What is covered Where only windows are open for the community But the door, only for society When the community enters, it is ignored at best if not visited with hostility But society, always welcome, Is treated with hospitality The Counsellor presiding

Through Science and Philosophy to Religion

Through Science and Philosophy to Religion

By the end of 2020, in case there was a man on Earth gullible enough not to know anything about a direct existing relationship between science and law, it became clear as crystal that it was the court of law that was in charge of every nation’s affairs and

Zuhr

Zuhr

There is a stillness that hovers over zuhr No wonder the salāt is read silently It is like keeping the vigil Under bright daylight There must be a part of Jannah That must be perpetually encompassed With the light and stillness of zuhr He who finds himself busy in the

Introduction to Time

Introduction to Time

In a well-known hadith qudsi, narrated by Abu Hurayra, radiyallahu anhu, recorded by al-Bukhari and Muslim, the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alayhi wa sallam said that Allāh Most High, declared: يُؤْذِينِي ابْنُ آدَمَ يَسُبُّ الدَّهْرَ وَأَنَا الدّ