Saintly Pearls

    • “Islam is like a crystal-clear river. Its water is pure, sweet, and life-giving but has no color of its own. It reflects the bedrock (indigenous culture) over which they flow. In China, Islam looked Chinese; in Mali, it looked African.”
      Dr. Umar Faruq Abd-Allah
      Islam and the Cultural Imperative

    • “If you want to know the state of your spirituality, look at the state of your heart when the Azan goes. In Tarim, where we came from, when Azan went they used to to sit down in the streets and lower their heads and cry.”
      Shaykh Musab Penfound
      Scholar of Tarim, Yemen

    • “Whenever i prevent my Nafs (lower soul) from attaining its desires, Allah makes me a king over it.
      The Nafs is a king if you indulge it, but it is a slave if you torment it.”
      ʿĀrifah Umm Talq
      Dhikru an-Niswa al-Muta’abbidat as-Sufiyat

    • “Tasawwuf has been defined, delineated and explained in about two thousand different ways. The basis of all of them, however, is true sincerity (Ikhlāṣ) in turning to Allah Almighty.”
      Shaykh Ahmad Zarrūq ash-Shadhili
      15th Century Maliki Scholar, Morocco

    • “I swear by Allah, I have never seen anyone in my life who sends a lot of Salawat upon the Prophet ﷺ except that, they are always happy.”
      Shaykh Yahya Rhodus
      Founding Director, Al-Maqasid

    • “If your heart is attached to the Prophet ﷺ, this is a strong sign that his heart is attached to yours. If you love the Prophet ﷺ, then this is a sign that he also loves you.”
      Shaykh Ḥabīb ʿAlī Abū Bakr
      Scholar of Hadramaut, Yemen