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The Motorcycles Were Never His

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ    إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُكُمْ أَن تُؤَدُّوا الْأَمَانَاتِ إِلَىٰ أَهْلِهَا   وَإِذَا حَكَمْتُم بَيْنَ النَّاسِ أَن تَحْكُمُوا بِالْعَدْلِ    إِنَّ اللَّهَ نِعِمَّا يَعِظُكُم بِهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ كَانَ سَمِيعًا بَصِيرًا Innallāha ya’murukum an tu’addul-amānāti ilā ahlihā; wa idhā ḥakamtum baynan-nāsi an taḥkumū bil-‘adl; innallāha ni‘immā ya‘iẓukum bih; innallāha kāna samī‘an baṣīrā. An-Nisa 4:58 — Allah commands you to return trusts to those to whom they are due, and when you judge between people, to judge with justice. How good is the instruction Allah gives you. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Seeing.   آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَأَنفِقُوا مِمَّا جَعَلَكُم مُّسْتَخْلَفِينَ فِيهِ Āminū billāhi wa rasūlihi wa anfiqū mimmā ja‘alakum mustakhlafīna fīh. Part of Al-Hadid 57:7 — Believe in Allah and His Messenger, and spend out of that over which He has made you trustees.  One of our school drivers retired las...

Thirty Years, Six Lessons

بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ   وَمَا مِن دَآبَّةٍۢ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا وَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَا ۚ كُلٌّۭ فِى كِتَـٰبٍۢ مُّبِينٍۢ Wa mā min dābbatin fil-arḍi illā ʿalallāhi rizquhā wa yaʿlamu mustaqarrahā wa mustawdaʿahā; kullun fī kitābin mubīn. Hūd 11:6   —There is no moving creature on earth whose provision is not guaranteed by Allah. And He knows where it lives and where it is laid to rest. All is written in a clear Record. There is an old report about Ḥātim al-Aṣamm and his teacher Shaqīq al-Balkhī. Before entering the story in detail, it is useful to place two transmitted forms of the report side by side. In the six-lesson version, Shaqīq asked Ḥātim, “Since you have accompanied me, what have you learned?” Ḥātim replied, “Six things. I saw people uncertain about their provision, so I trusted in Allah, because He has said that the provision of every creature on earth is upon Him. I saw that every person has a frie...