['Tafsir Ibn Kathir'; 4/309]

"Verily, each verse is like a date: the more you chew it, the more of its sweetness is released."

"If our hearts were truly pure, we would never get enough of the Words of our Lord...and I hate that one day passes with me not looking in the Mushaf."

“A Faqih has to have knowledge of other sciences like History…”

The great Mufassir, Ibn Kathîr ash-Shâfi’î put great effort into compiling his celebrated history book, ‘Al-Bidâyah wan-Nihâyah’ & Imâm al-Bukhâri also saw the need (and benefit of studying) and compiling works on history..

The Muhaddîth Ibn Hajr al-‘Asqalâni says in Nukhbatul-Fikr:

“Breaks in chains of narrators are discovered in knowing that the narrators did not meet. There is therefore a need to know History”.

Do we then still disregard its importance…?

One of the saddest events to take place in the History of Islâm is that of the loss of al-Andalus.. It was an Islâmic land with a majority muslim population. Yet still the Muslims were defeated and Islâm banished until not a single muslim remained in the land. Muslims were massacred, and over five hundred Masâjid were converted into churches..to this day, one cannot even go and pray in any of the remaining Masâjid..

We see that all the causes of al-Andalus’s collapse can be found in the Ummah today. Laziness for Jihâd, love of the Dunyah, lack of Da’wah, the Muslim governments not implementing Sharî’ah, the Muslims helping Kuffâr armies against other Muslims…the list is endless – i could go on and on..

Will we wake up, or will disaster hit us too?