Author: MUHAMMAD FARHAT

Muhammad Farhat is a native speaker of Arabic and a graduate of Al-Azhar University in Egypt with a Bachelor of Simultaneous Interpretation (English-Arabic) from its Faculty of Languages & Translation. He has memorized the entire Qur’an in accord with a detailed understanding of the Tajweed rules and traditional Qur’an recitation. Furthermore, he has a certificate (Ijaza) in [reading & teaching] the Holy Quran as narrated by Hafs from Asim, with its Isnâd traced back to Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ). Muhammad serves as a tutor for the online Firdaws Academy for English language teaching of the Qur’an, Arabic language and Islamic Studies: https://firdawsacademy.com

Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 4

Vital Signs of a Healthy Heart What are some signs of a pure heart by which one can measure the sincerity of his or her own intentions and attitudes? In everyday life we like to judge how closely we are conforming to…

Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 3

Clearing Away the Harm of Your Sin We all —at one time or another, to a greater or lesser degree— succumb to poorly intentioned acts of the heart (Part 1), and these lead to wrongdoing. The resulting actions of the tongue and…

Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 2

Purifying Your Intentions Using Cost-Benefit Analysis In our daily lives we often must make a choice which is neither ‘black’ nor ‘white,’ neither completely bad nor perfectly good. Anything seen as a ‘grey’ area is typically dealt with based on some kind…

Keeping Yourself Pure through Understanding the Heart: Part 1

Acts of the Heart Allah created the heart and made it a king, and the limbs as its troops. If the king is good, then the soldiers will be good, too. The Prophet (ﷺ) said: “Indeed there is a piece of flesh…