The light of the day · Wednesday 21 October
A woman founded the world's oldest university
In 859 CE, Fatima al-Fihri, a Muslim woman in Fez, spent her inheritance to found al-Qarawiyyin, recognized by UNESCO and Guinness as the oldest continuously operating degree-granting university on earth. It still teaches today.
Fez, Morocco · 859 CE
Wednesday 21 October 2026 · 9 Jumada al-Ula 1448 AH
The word · The heart
الصِّدْق
Sidq
Truthfulness: that your words, your intentions and your actions all report the same thing.
The Qur'an tells the believers to be with the truthful (Qur'an 9:119), and the Prophet peace be upon him said truthfulness leads to righteousness and righteousness leads to Paradise, in Bukhari and Muslim. Writers on the heart use sidq more widely than honest speech: a truthful hope, a truthful repentance, a truthful claim to love Allah. In that sense its opposite is not only lying but posing.
The Path · chapter 67 of 71
الشفاعة والمقام المحمود
Ash-Shafa'a: Maqam Mahmud
All prophets say Nafsi nafsi. Muhammad ﷺ is given the praised station.
The Day's first relief arrives through the man who wept “my ummah”, love him accordingly
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