Dr Sohail Ansari

Sunnahs of Eating يَا غُلَامُ سَمِّ اللَّهَ، وَكُلْ بِيَمِينِكَ، وَكُلْ مِمَّا يَلِيكَ ‘Oh boy!  Mention the Name of Allah  and  eat with your right hand , and  eat of the dish what is nearer to you .” Since then I have applied those instructions when eating.” Sahih Al-Bukhari and Muslim Eat on the floor It is narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: “I eat just as the slave eats, and I sit just as the slave sits”. Abu Ya’la (Sahih) Eat with three fingers Ka’b Ibn Malik states: “The Prophet ﷺ used to eat with three fingers and lick his hand before he wiped it.” Sahih Muslim Eat together Abdullah Ibn Umar Narrated: “I heard my father say: ‘I heard ‘Umar bin Khattab say: “The Messenger of Allah ( ﷺ ) said: ‘Eat together and do not eat separately, for the blessing is in being together.’” Sunan Ibn Majah (Hassan) Don’t overeat The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: ‘The human does not fill any container that is worse than his stomach. It is ...

Dua when waking up الحَمْدُ لِلهِ الَّذِي أَحْيَانَا بَعْدَ مَا أَمَاتَنَا وَإِلَيْهِ النُّشُور ُ All praise is for Allah who gave us life after causing us to die, and unto Him is the resurrection. Before sleeping   اللَّهُمَّ بِاسْـمِكَ أَمُوتُ وَأَحْيَا Bismikal-lahumma amootu wa-ahya. In Your name O Allah, I live and die. Al-Bukhari 11:113, Muslim 4:2083   How to... use discourse analysis By Margaret Adolphus What is discourse analysis? The  Oxford English Dictionary  defines discourse analysis as: "Linguistics, a method of analysing the structure of texts or utterances longer than one sentence, taking into account both their linguistic content and their sociolinguistic context; analysis performed using this method." There is a problem, however, not with the wording of this definition, but with the concept itself, which implies that language can have a fixed meaning as the very ethos of discourse analysis is that language and disc...