بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
Suhaib Ibn Sinan Al Rumi was an Arab boy who grew up amongst the Persians because his father was a governor of a Persian city. However, when he was a child, he was kidnapped by the Romans and sold into slavery for two decades. It was in their company that he began to speak the language of the Byzantian Empire i.e. Greek and he even ended up forgetting his native Arabic.
Continue reading Life of Suhaib Ibn Sinan Al Rumi رضي الله عنهWhat I set to accomplish through this series of posts inshaAllah is 1) to be consistent in watching The Firsts series by Omar Suleiman and 2) derive and share lessons that can help us understand the world today (at the moment, specifically in relation to the oppression of the ummah.) I don’t expect these posts to be lengthy as I’m not exactly sharing transcripts of the lectures, so these might end up being brief glimpses of a companion’s life through which we can extrapolate a lesson inshaAllah.
بِسْمِ اللهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِيْمِ
This week, we are focusing on Khabbab ibn Al Aratt رضي الله عنه. I’d like to start with his background because it adds to the dreariness of what his life might have been even before the torture he endured prior accepting Islam. He was a slave purchased from the marketplace when he wasn’t even a teenager yet, and being a slave in of itself is no success story.
Continue reading Life of Khabbab Ibn Al Aratt رضي الله عنه[Note: This series of articles are extracted from self-taken notes from Ustadha Fatima Barkatulla’s lectures series. ]
Most of us have had to be apart from family and friends for an extensive period of time during the pandemic. Perhaps that separation has continued to stretch even now. Given such circumstances, there are several amongst us who’ve faced some understandable sense of loneliness; we are social beings after all. But one thing we should remind ourselves is that Allah will always replace this void with something greater.
We still have the companionship of the righteous predecessors alhamdulillah. Their lives aren’t just preserved for simple rote learning. And during times like these, we see that they not only serve as sources of motivation, but serve as sources of friendship, of comfort. We will follow the religion of our friends, so who better to befriend than them?
In this series of articles, I’d like to delve into the life of our mother, Aisha bint Abu Bakr رضي الله عنها, as taught by Ustadha Fatima Barkatullah in her ongoing classes with extra benefits for good measure. When you read about her life, absorb yourself in it as you would in a tête-à-tête with a known friend. But before delving into the topic, let’s ask ourselves three questions:
Tarbiyah by Ilm 