Allah wants you to reach heights which you could not yet imagine; to become like a towering tree which basks in the glory of the sunlight. Yet, you remain in a flowerpot stuck in a greenhouse due to limitations you have limited yourself with. How strange that we do not recognise our full potential! … [Read more...]
Why Does Allah Test Us? | Br. Khalil Jafar | Butterfly Within Pt. 7 | English
Khalil Jafar eloquently explains one of the most fundamental questions: why do burdens fall upon us in this world’s life? Why are there trials, sufferings, pains and how do these things ultimately create a better human being? #IslamicTeachings #ButterflyWithin #SelfDevelopment #Thoughts … [Read more...]
Be with Allah | Br. Khalil Jafar | Butterfly Within pt.6 | English
He is closer to you than your own veins. He has watched your journey up until this moment. He knows your past and your future. The fitrah is the innate, divine nature within you which is like a light in the darkness. Brother Khalil Jafar beautifully reminds us about the struggle to overcome ones … [Read more...]
Why doesn’t your life change? | Butterfly within Pt.5 | Br. Khalil Jafar | English
Br. Khalil Jafar eloquently explains that “the closer we get to enlightenment, the harder it gets…” Sometimes, before reaching the great heights, those on the path of finding themselves will undergo severe depression. This is all part of the process of transforming and Imam Ali (A) … [Read more...]
Why Is Islam the "Natural" religion? | Pt. 4 Butterfly witnin | B. Khalil jaffer | English
The fourth instalment of the Butterfly Within series, exploring the concept of the human journey from being a lowly creature of the earth which simply crawls and consumes continuously [like a caterpillar] to being a higher, transcendent spiritual being [like a butterfly]. We will often hear … [Read more...]
Can You Kill the Animal Within? | The Butterfly Within Pt. 3 | Br. Khalil Jafar | English
Don’t get married, get your degree and your education first, they say. But is this what Islam teaches? \\\"Nothing will give you as great an illusion as the first few hours of a diet” - Br. Khalil Jafar aptly points out in his discourses relating to the two “natures\\\" which exist … [Read more...]
Are we Aliens in this world? | The Butterfly Within Pt. 1 | Br. Khalil Jafar | English
Many – if not most – human beings go through life without ever truly undergoing the necessary transformation into the best that we can be. We come to this world as caterpillars, and it is our aim to develop into butterflies. But we often remain as crawling creatures of this lowly dimension, … [Read more...]
