It is well known that the highest level of worship is Ihsan (excellence in worship) — a state of the utmost mindfulness and adoring/ being in awe of The Creator, defined as worshipping Allah as if seeing Him (swt). This form of worship allows the servant to attain the loftiest levels of servitude possible and, through it, to experience the most profound sense of Divine closeness and the love of Allah (swt). There is no one who does not aspire to reach the station of Ihsan, gi

“O, Believers! Believe in Allah, His Messenger, the Book He has revealed to His Messenger, and the Scriptures He revealed before” (4:136). This call to have faith after one has already believed is essentially a call to correct, solidify, and deepen one’s faith. It is a call setting one on a continual self-examination of Iman, to preserve and firmly anchor its roots in one’s heart, so that Iman does not become vulnerable to being overtaken by impure elements, leading to the co

Confining one’s vision of existence to a worldly life and a dying world, ends with a person deliberately accepting the submission to a materialistic life in which the ultimate worry is tomorrow. In this tomorrow, one wishes to receive the good news of the long-awaited achievements and the fulfillment of dreams. Driven by hope, he/she continues to wish to attain that tomorrow. But then, death comes prior to one having lived that tomorrow. Narrated Anas bin Malik, the Prophet M