Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za 27 May 2026 8-minute read In this article, we explore the deeply powerful...
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The Taxi That Travelled 4.6 Million Km and the Islamic Lessons Hidden Beneath the Hood
Annisa Essack | kzn@radioislam.org.za 15 May 2026 5 min read Some stories are so ordinary, they almost feel sacred —...
A Cyber-Safe Hajj
Rabia Mayet | rabiamayet@radioislam.co.za 09 May 2026 5-minute read While most of the departing hujjaj take safety as...
How To Become The Beloved of Allah
18 March 2026 5-minute read How do we go on this journey of becoming the Beloveds of Allāh? إِنْ أَوْلِيَاؤُهُ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقُونَ Allāh says, ‘those that are Beloved to me are those who have Taqwa’. After the great month of Ramadhaan, the levels of Taqwa are high....
Allah Is Not Selfish In His Love
17 March 2026 4-minute read Islam is about love, through and through, but you need to make Allāh your Beloved and you need to become the Beloved of Allāh before you can radiate the love of Allāh to the rest of humanity. You know you can pay lip-service and say, ‘Oh,...
Every Love Is Motivated…Except Two
16 March 2026 4-minute read Every relationship that we enjoy on earth is not purely based on love, it always has some ulterior motive, some self-interest that is attached. In other words, there is no-one on planet earth who loves you purely out of love. They may love...
The Benchmark By Which To Live Your Life
13 March 2026 4-minute read When you buy your own car for the first time, you are happy. But when you buy your son a car for the first time, then that's not a smile on your face, it's a smile on your heart. When you see that you have brought a smile to somebody else's...
Become The Beloved Of Allah
12 March 2026 4-minute read Every Muslim, young or old, black or white, Arab or non-Arab, male or female, pious or not, all desire to become the beloveds of Allāh. That is the goal. That is the zenith and the apex of what we desire and hope to achieve. Jannah is an...
Certain People Are Like Magnets
11 March 2026 3-minute read A Hadith is mentioned by Mundhiri رَحِمَهُ اللهُ in his Targheeb [wat Tarhib] إِنَّ للهِ خَلْقًا، خَلَقَهُمْ لِحَوَائِجِ النَّاسِ Sometimes you and I may assist but we feel 'hey, why do they come always to me? They only know my door'. ...
Make His Difficulty Your Difficulty
10 March 2026 4-minute read What we need to understand when we study History, and even Islamic History, is that we always discuss the youth and the generations to come but the problems of the generation to come stem from the fact that we are only obsessed with our own...
Live To Serve Humanity: The Best Of Nations
09 March 2026 5-minute read كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّة You are the best of nations Many a time we hear the title: Khairul Umam (خَيْرُ الْأُمَم). You are the Best of Ummahs, the Best of Nations. We, as Muslims take pride in that, that Allāh has selected you and me, not by...
What A Sincere Apology Entails
07 March 2026 3-minute read Let me tell you that a sincere apology is not the way in which most politicians apologise! When they get caught doing something wrong, or when they say that which people deem offensive, they say, “If I have offended you, then I apologise.”...
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