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From: Islamic Horizons
Date: 20060701
Author:Hagmagid, Imam Mohammed ibn

Living the Sunnah: Part II

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the great English poet, once defined poetry as "the best words in the best order." For in their careful alignment, words like tiles fit to a mosaic, giving birth to beauty. As with words, so are actions. The best deeds in their respective contexts can give birth to beauty; one's life can be a veritable poem of action. Our beloved Prophet (salla Allahu 'alayhi wa sallam) once expressed this when he described a third of one's religion as ihsan, a word that literally means 'spiritual excellence' and 'beneficence' but is also related to the word ...

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