ideas and conflicts , forgotten and remembered.

"The history of ideas is intrisically woven with the history of conflict. and all too often only the conflicts are remembered. the ideas, are forgotten."

Love in Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past..... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia"

"that may be the reason he does so many things," she said, "so that he will not have time to think." -Leona Cassiani, kawan F. Ariza on Dr. Urbino

No one described him better that he did when someone accused him of being rich. "No, not rich," he said. "i am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." -Uncle Leo XII


"The only regret i will have in dying is if it is not for love." -quote; Pius V Loayza, Florentino Ariza's father

Why we study the Seerah ? quote for later references

- "...Allah (swt) reminds Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) in Qur’an that he is being told of the prophets of before in order that his iman (faith) increases. Hence, if the stories of the previous prophets can strengthen our prophet’s iman, then imagine what the story of the best of mankind should do to our iman."

7. Seerah lays out a precise methodology of the revival of Muslim Ummah. How to bring about the honor and glory that once was. How did the Prophet (pbuh) start in the middle of the most illiterate society in the face of earth of that time and within two decades he controlled all of Arabia. And by another two decades, after his death, Muslims controlled all from Spain to china! How did that happen, what were the stages that it went though?

8. We learn how Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) trained the sahabah (companions). What was his tarbiyyah. How did they become the best of all nations? What methodologies did Prophet use in order the make them from the worst of the worst, from the lowest of the low to the highest of the high.

9. It brings about comfort and peace to the heart. Each person enjoys what his heart is conditioned to. If a person’s heart is evil, he enjoys evil. If a person’s heart is pure, he enjoys pure.

10. Studying Seerah is the primary way of defending the honor of our beloved Prophet (pbuh). Defending his honor is an obligation upon us. How can we defend him when we don’t even know him!

So to summarize the blessings of the seerah:

“It is the study of the best matters, of the best human being, of the best time frame and the study of the evolution of the best religion.”

from here.