Umar Quinn

📖 The Story Allāh Tells Most It is said: «مَنْ أَحَبَّ شَيْئًا أَكْثَرَ مِنْ ذِكْرِهِ» “Whoever loves a thing mentions it often.” No prophet’s story is told more often in the Qurʾān than Mūsā’s. Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Kathīr (رحمه الله) said: «وَالْقُرْآنُ مَمْلُوءٌ بِذِكْ…

No Stories of the Prophets lessons this weekend. I am putting the finishing touches on the next installment, the best by far so far: The Story of Mūsā (عليه السلام). Launching soon along with a follow along course بإذن الله. وفق الله الجميع

The Self-Exalted and Their Enablers A tyrant is seldom self-made. He is driven by those who feed him adulation and drama. He has sycophants to praise him and enablers to carry out his designs, and it begins when he comes to need their praise. Nor is this only…

[continued 2 of 2] But no height in this world lasts. When a bedouin’s camel outran al-ʿAḍbāʾ, the Prophet’s (ﷺ) camel that had never been beaten, Allāh’s Messenger (ﷺ) said: «إِنَّ حَقًّا عَلَى اللَّهِ أَنْ لَا يَرْفَعَ شَيْئًا مِنَ الدُّنْيَا إِلَّا وَضَعَهُ…

Raised in the worst household on earth Mūsā was raised in the worst household on earth, yet he was never really Pharaoh's to shape. Allāh says to him: ﴿وَاصْطَنَعْتُكَ لِنَفْسِي﴾ "And I fashioned you for Myself." [Ṭā Hā (20):41] Shaykh al-Saʿdī (رحمه الله) ask…

🌅 Sorcerers at sunrise, martyrs by sunset Pharaoh rallied his best sorcerers to bury the truth, and they became its best witnesses. ʿUbayd ibn ʿUmayr, Mujāhid, and Qatādah (رحمهم الله) said: «كَانُوا أَوَّلَ النَّهَارِ سَحَرَةً، وَآخِرَهُ شُهَدَاءَ» "At the st…

Stories of the Prophets: Retuning to Eden: The Creation, Fall, and Redemption of Adam In the first eight episodes, we’ve covered the creation story in detail. Here is the playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKmw5MRK_JME&si=5qy3xjNiGkL2EEVd

Here is the link to join the live lesson at 7:15: https://www.youtube.com/live/Z3vlPyXpvLg?is=xc8lQQoJyImvGbyP