इस्लाम का आरम्भ स्पेन में 711 ई0 में अरब के बनी उमैय्या के शासनकाल में हुआ था। मुस्लिम शासन वहाँ 1492 ई0 तक रहा। फिर वहाँ ना कोई मुस्लिम रहा ना ही कोई एक भी मस्जिद बची। 711 ई0 में इस्लाम तेज़ी से फैल रहा था। अरब ने अफ्रीका के बड़े हिससे जीत लिए थे, […]
The 1200s started out looking good for the Islamic world. The Crusaders had been defeated and Jerusalem liberated in 1187, the Ismaili Fatimids had finally been removed from harassing the Muslim world in the mid-1100s, and a powerful Khwarazmian Empire had emerged in Persia. However, all that would soon turn around when the ruthless Mongols […]
A man who was living in comfortable enough circumstances went one day to see a certain sage, reputed to have all knowledge. He said to him: ‘Great Sage, I have no material problems, and yet I am always unsettled. For years I have tried to be happy, to find an answer to my inner thoughts, […]
Muhibullah was born in Sadarpur near Khairabad in Sitapur district, Uttar Pradesh. A descendant of Baba Farid, his father Shaikh Mubariz was a famous Sufi scholar. The boy was a diligent student and a great seeker of knowledge. He mastered religious studies and decided to leave home in the quest for higher knowledge. He had […]
हज़रत इमाम हसन अलैहिस्सलाम की तारीख़े विलादत (जन्म दिवस) के मौक़े पर हम दुनिया के तमाम मुसलमानों को ख़ुसूसन आपके चाहने वालों को मुबारक बाद पेश करते हुए आपका संक्षिप्त जीवन परिचय प्रस्तुत कर रहे हैं। हज़रत इमाम हसन अलैहिस्सलाम का ज़िन्दगी नामा (जीवन परिचय) वालदैन (माता पिता) हज़रत इमाम हसन अलैहिस्सलाम […]
Al-Madinah (Arabic for the city) was so called as it received Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) when he migrate from Makkah on Allah swt command in 622 CE. It is also known by the name Taibah derived from the Arabic word meaning kindness. Another name it goes by is Dar Al-Hijra (Arabic […]
When Hazrat Yousaf A.S. [Joseph] was attacked by his brothers and thrown in a well, he was rescued by a caravan who enslaved him to be sokd. Hazrat Yousaf was taken to a market of slaves, where they invited customers to put a bid on him. Hazrat Yousaf A.S. was considered one of the most […]
A rare example of an early 17th century Ottoman sofra- a round cloth, in this beautifully decorated with tulip and other motifs- spread out on the floor or ground in order for food to be placed on it, functioning like a dining room table. While the saint in the story below probably would not have had so […]
A veritable mine of “Game of Wisdom” In this Blog, we reproduce seven of the most illuminating and thought-provoking letters on the cult of Sufism which Hazrat Khwaja Muinuddin Chishti affectionately wrote from Ajmer to his Khalifa (spiritual successor) Khawaja Qutubuddin Bakhtiyar kaki (may peace of God be upon his soul) who was the accredited […]
