Who Wants a Transformer?
He is God, the Creator, the Evolver, the Giver of Forms and Colors. (Hashr 59:24) Halima was making…
A Moment For Reflection
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The Wonderer
When you travel long enough and become a stranger to every land you step on, you stop having…
Paper People
First came to realize my power to distinguish paper people in a formal talk at the university. The…
A Saturday Unlike Others
Many of us either heard about or read Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. The hero of the…
The Medal Maker
And this world’s life is naught but a play and an idle sport and certainly the abode of…
Is there still a chance for me to be forgiven?
The following Hadith on repentance is narrated in the Hadith collections of both Bukhari and Muslim: Once there…
Vanity of Worldly Desires
A gold ingot fell into the hands of a pious man and so turned his head that his…
The Guests of The Palace
The sandstorm was over. It was a horrible night. The caravan was lost in the middle of nowhere.…
A Moment for Reflection
Camels on the Roof One night, when sleeping, a man heard sounds on his roof. There were loud…
One Remedy
O brother who thinks of the pleasures of this world and suffers distress at illness! If this world…
The Merchant and The Parrot
A well-to-do merchant planned a long business trip to India. He was a good man and looked after…
The Unmaking of A Young Thief
A young man (let us call him Amjad) was walking home, head down, kicking stones on the path.…
Waking Up From Head To Foot
An old man sat up one morning in his bed as if about to get up in the…
List of Virtue
A great and powerful emperor who longed to rule with justice and wisdom summoned one of his counsellors…
Coloured Lights
I cried a little as the bus started to fill up with people in Charing Cross Road and…