Another Name belonging to Allaah is Al-`Afoo (the Pardoner). In the last ten nights of Ramadaan, the Messenger ﷺ taught `Aai`shah (radiyallaahu `anha) to say: اللهم إنك عفو كريم تحب العفو فاعف عني O Allaah! You are `Afoo (Pardoner), You love to Pardon, so Pardon me.(1) So Allaah is the Pardoner, the One who excuses people. How is His Pardoning of the people different […]
There are seven whom God will shade in His shade on the day on which there is no shade except His shade; a just imam, a youth who grows up worshipping God, a man whose heart is attached to the mosque when he leaves it until he returns to it, two who love each other […]
“And that the human being can have nothing but what he has earned (good or bad).”Al-Qur’an 53:39 Commenting on this ayah Ibn Kathir, rahimahullah, said, “Imam ash-Shafi’i concluded from this ayah that reciting the Qur’an does not benefit the dead, because it is not from their doing and earning. For this reason, Allah’s Messenger, upon […]