A friend recently sent me this email. It served as a good reminder and thus wanted to share.  Read more...

You type verses from the Quran all the time, in Arabic? Yes. How about doing it in less than a second? No? Read on then.
What I’m talking about are text expansion softwares. These are small utilities that run in the background and look for what you type. When you type a pre-configured sequence of characters, magic happens. So no matter what application I’m using, as soon as I type the letters ‘w b r’, this utility auto expands right at that place into ‘with best regards’. This is a huge time saver for people who do a lot of typing on their computers. It’s even useful to us software developers. For the code snippets you might need on a regular basis, these utilities can make you more productive.
It’s east to imagine the benefits of this amazing utility. You don’t type often used word or phrases over and over, you save time, type faster etc etc. To me this utility presented another idea. Before I talk about that, let me briefly mention my project so you’ll understand what I’m doing.
As an active seeker of Islamic knowledge I often find the need to include Quranic verses in my notes. The most naive way us to start typing it. It not only is painstakingly slow, you can make mistakes unintentionally. Another and most common way is to copy paste. That too can take some time. Since you have to first search or navigate to the ayah and then copy paste. So to ease this task I came up with the following idea(mind you this is all for mac users. Sorry I don’t develop for windows).  Read more...

Alhamdulillah I have been blessed to attend quite a few halaqa, study circles, classes on the famous 40 Hadith by Imam Yahya bin Sharaf An-Nawawi. During these sessions, while taking notes, I lacked one basic ability. This is the ability to copy paste the exact hadith text in Arabic into my notes. While at the same time trying one or more of the following  Read more...

The characteristics of good conduct are three : to shun everything that is forbidden, seek what is lawful and spending amply on one’s dependents – Abdullah bin Al-Mubarak  Read more...

SubhanAllah. Fasting outside the month of Ramadhan is just not the same. This is a testimony of the fact, that Ramadhan indeed is blessed just by itself inshaAllah. May Allah سبحانه و تعالى accept our fasts of Ramadhan this year and all the years we have observed them in our lifetime.  Read more...