The light of the day · Tuesday 27 October
Your morning coffee has Sufi roots
Coffee spread through the world from 15th-century Yemen, where Sufis in Mocha drank qahwa to stay awake for night devotion. From their gatherings it reached Makkah, Cairo, Istanbul, and eventually every café on earth.
Yemen · 15th century
Tuesday 27 October 2026 · 15 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · Law and life
دِيَة
Diyah
Blood money: compensation paid to a victim's family for a killing or an injury.
The Qur'an prescribes it for accidental killing, alongside the freeing of a slave, and it is also what a family receives when they waive qisas for a deliberate one. The classical measure is one hundred camels, which jurists converted into gold, silver or currency, with fixed fractions for the loss of an eye, a hand or a tooth. In the classical rules the payment falls on the killer's kin group, the 'aqilah, an early…
The Path · chapter 1 of 71
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Kun Fayakun: Arsh over Water
Before creation the Throne was over the water and the Pen wrote the Qadar of all things.
Nothing that reaches you could ever have missed you, the Pen has dried
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