The light of the day · Monday 12 October
He out-traveled Marco Polo three times over
Ibn Battuta left Tangier in 1325 for hajj and kept going for 29 years: some 117,000 km across Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia and China, leaving one of history's greatest travel accounts, the Rihla.
Ibn Battuta · 1304-1369 CE
Monday 12 October 2026 · 29 Rabi ath-Thani 1448 AH
The word · Belief
الشِّرْك
Shirk
Giving to something other than Allah what belongs to Allah alone, above all worship.
The word means to make a partner or to share. The Qur'an says Allah does not forgive that a partner be set up with Him, and forgives what is less than that for whom He wills (Qur'an 4:48). Commentators read that of the one who dies without repenting, since the Qur'an elsewhere promises forgiveness to whoever turns back. Scholars distinguish major shirk, which takes a person outside Islam, from minor shirk, which is…
The Path · chapter 24 of 71
الجاهلية
Jahiliyya: 360 Idols
The House filled with 360 idols. The age of ignorance.
Religions do not fall in a day, one tolerated innovation compounds for centuries
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