The light of the day · Monday 26 October
He out-traveled Marco Polo three times over
Ibn Battuta left Tangier in 1325 for hajj and kept going for 29 years: some 117,000 km across Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and China, leaving one of history's greatest travel accounts, the Rihla.
Ibn Battuta · 1304-1369 CE
Monday 26 October 2026 · 14 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · History
مُصْعَبُ بْنُ عُمَيْر
Mus'ab ibn Umayr
The best dressed youth in Makkah who gave it up, taught Madinah Islam, and died at Uhud.
His mother had raised him in luxury and cut him off when he believed. After the first pledge at Aqabah the Prophet sent him alone to Madinah as teacher and reciter, and through him whole households of the Aws and Khazraj entered Islam before the Hijrah. He carried the banner at Uhud and was killed there. When they came to bury him they had only one short cloak: covering his head left his feet bare, and covering his…
The Path · chapter 12 of 71
رؤيا يوسف
Yusuf: 11 Stars Dream
Eleven stars, the sun and the moon prostrating, the best of stories opens with a dream.
Guard blessings from envious eyes, even within family
The library
The whole library, free
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