Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui

The aspirant realizes that he cannot tame his nafs by himself. We must tame the horse of our nafs/self by holding onto its reins.

Even though the Qur’an itself honors them, in an age of sectarianism, Muslims who seek to mention the Prophetic Household are accused of either deviancy or discord.

Sūrah al-Mā’idah comprises of some aḥkām (practical rules and regulations) of our daily human lives — which should be, for our own happiness, in accordance with what Allah subḥānahu wa ta’āla instructs us, because He knows us better than we know ourselves.

As we begin Ramadan, we ask Allah to give us the desire, and the energy with that desire, to behave and to do that which is most beloved to Him – during this month, after this month, and forever insha Allah ta'ala.

When we come to Salah, where are we going? We’re supposed to be going to whom? To Allah – to liqā Allah (meeting Allah) in Salah. So if in that walk or drive or coming to Salah we are not energized in this way, if we come for the wrong reasons and we come lazy and bored, then that’s a sign that Allah is not desiring us because of the way we are. But if when we come to Salah we find our hearts desirous, going forward emotionally, elated, and expanded – and if we’re not in a hurry in Salah to leave – then that’s a sign inshallah that Allah loves to be with us.

Let not the injustice of others make you also unust. Instead, help each other and do participate in all that is mutual and all that is good. Anything that is virtuous, anything that is righteous that is done by other parties – do take part in it. Help in it. But do not help and do not take part in that which is transgression and injustice.

While you are in ṣalah, you should feel as though time stops. There is nothing in the universe and in life that exists that is worth anything.

We are a trust from God. We belong to Him. He is the Owner. The way we are, the way we shall use ourselves, the way we shall use our minds, our eyes, our ears, our hands, our tongues, our legs, our stomachs, our sexual organs – each one of those and more are trusts (amānāt) with us.

The message of the Qur’an from the beginning until the end is that we as human beings are to be conscious of our relationships with Allah subhanahu wa ta’ala.

Social, political, economic, civilizational change – the root of all those changes is the change inside of you. I must do work. It does not come without effort. A spiritual dimension is a higher dimension.

As human beings, we are to look at everything in our lives—material experience, intellectual experience, psychological and emotional experiences—in the envelope of our spiritual reality. How do we take care of that spiritual reality?

If what we do or say is stripped from rahma (merciful love), then it has nothing to do with our deen.

The core message of Surah Ali-Imran is about patience. Be patient in the face of challenges and calamities. Don’t give in. And that requires an action of the heart.

Those who forgive, they restrain anger, and forgive the wrong that is done to them. And truly Allah loves those who are muhsinoon – those who are generous in the way they behave with others.

Allah says you shall not attain the state of good, until you give of that which you love. It is not only “spend from that which you earn,” but “spend from that which is pure of what you earn.” What does he mean by that?

The best of provisions on the journey in this world to the next is the provision of taqwa.

In the first story of the Qur'an, Allah is reminding us that our home is jannah, and this life is a journey to come back home.

Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui describes the nature of the human soul and discusses the approach we need to reach our highest spiritual potential.

A textual analysis vindicates the opinion of an overwhelming majority of 1400 years of Islamic scholarship—that the sighting of the crescent, rather than a probabilistic computational science of crescent sightability, preserves both the letter and spirit of the law.

Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui on where to find spiritual retreat amidst the chaos of our busy daily lives. Excerpt from "Inner Dimensions of the Qur'an", a series where he examines several selections from the Qur'an, reflecting on how they play a crucial role in our understanding of the process of self-purification.

Can the Prophet ﷺ be overpraised? Is commemorating his birth appropriate or not? Shaykh Mokhtar Maghraoui answers these questions.