The light of the day · Friday 23 October
Algorithm is a man's name
The word algorithm comes from al-Khwarizmi, the Baghdad scholar whose 9th-century book on completion and balancing gave the world algebra (al-jabr). Every app you touch today runs on ideas that pass through his name.
House of Wisdom, Baghdad · 9th century
Friday 23 October 2026 · 11 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · Belief
التَّوَسُّل
Tawassul
Approaching Allah through a means, such as His names, your own good deeds, or a living person's du'a.
All schools agree on three forms: by Allah's names and attributes, by your own righteous deeds, and by asking a living righteous person to pray for you, the last shown in the hadith of the blind man and in Umar asking al-Abbas to pray for rain. They differ over tawassul by the person or rank of a prophet or saint, especially after death. Many Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i and Sufi scholars permit it as a form of asking…
The Path · chapter 45 of 71
حجة الوداع
The Farewell Hajj: Arafat
One Hajj, one sermon, one completed religion: “This day I have perfected for you your religion.”
The religion was completed in public, on a mountain of witnesses, Islam has no hidden chapter
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