The Heart Softeners

Question How can we raise the level of taqwa (fear of Allah, righteousness) in our hearts? I waste time watching television and playing games; what can I do? Answer   Praise be to Allah. Firstly: Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, has commanded us to fear Him (taqwa), and …

Question I heard this on a video; how sound is it? “No one asks Allah for some worldly matter but he will get an equal amount of worries and stress.” Answer   Praise be to Allah. Firstly: As for this statement with this general meaning, it is undoubtedly false, for …

Question What is the order of importance of acts of worship? I learned from an Islamic tape that the Shaytan has tricks, one of which is that he starts by trying to make the person a disbeliever; if he cannot do that, he tries to make him not pray; if …

Question Is it normal for a Muslim to find it very difficult to do acts of worship and be unable to do them because of some fault in his character, such as cowardice, for example, or other problems, so he says to himself: if I truly knew who Allah is, …