The light of the day · Sunday 30 August
One August day in 1071 opened Anatolia to Turkish settlement
On 26 August 1071 the Seljuk sultan Alp Arslan met the Byzantine emperor Romanos IV Diogenes near Manzikert, in what is now eastern Turkey. Alp Arslan had been trying to avoid the battle and had offered terms. He won it, and captured the emperor, who by most accounts was treated courteously and released for a ransom that was never fully paid. The consequences were not military so much as demographic. Byzantine control of the Anatolian interior collapsed into civil war, Turkoman groups moved in over the following decades, and the region that had been Greek speaking for well over a thousand years slowly became the Turkish speaking country it is today.
Alp Arslan · Manzikert, 26 August 1071
Sunday 30 August 2026 · 16 Rabi al-Awwal 1448 AH
The word · The Qur'an
التَّجْويد
Tajwid
The rules for pronouncing the Qur'an correctly: each letter from its place, with its proper qualities.
The word means to do a thing well. In practice it covers articulation points, letter qualities, lengthening, merging, hiding, and where to stop. Scholars broadly agree that learning enough to avoid errors that change meaning is required of every reciter; how much of the finer detail is obligatory is debated, and a beginner is not sinful for reciting imperfectly while learning.
The Path · chapter 71 of 71
الجنة
Jannah: What No Eye Has Seen
Bricks of gold and silver, mortar of musk. The highest delight is the vision of Allah.
Ask specifically: Firdaws, beneath the Throne, he ﷺ told you the address
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