Concisely, the essence of love is inclination towards what pleases the one who is loved. This inclination may be towards what a person finds pleasing and agreeable, such as a beautiful appearance, voice, food, and the like. It may also be for inner meanings, such as loving the righteous, the ulema, and people of virtue in general.

The war of America against Iran has revealed one of the truths that wars tend to expose, for war is the moment of naked truth in which hidden and concealed strategic and geostrategic realities come to light. War is the most effective and eloquent testing ground for revealing such matters.

The recent war waged by America and the Jewish entity against Iran revealed a profound truth that the West—led by America—has long sought to conceal: that power lies not merely in a people’s aircraft carriers, its stockpiles of nuclear warheads, or its projected image of prestige and might,

The words “guidance (هدى huda)” and “guiding (هداية hidayah)” have different meanings in the Arabic language, and this is also true in the Noble Quran and the Prophetic Sunnah. They are used to describe the creation of the capacity for guidance within humankind, as in several verses of the Noble Quran, such as the saying of Allah (swt)...