SECRETS OF SAINTHOOD
What are they like, the miracle-workers who are friends of Allah? There is a wondrous story about this; read it too: Hazrat Dawud al-Ta’i was sitting on the riverbank fishing, and…
Essays
Essays by Akrom Malik on ethics, language, literature and life.
Do not push people into hell; call them to paradise — perhaps it will be accepted.
Do not push people into hell; call them to paradise — perhaps it will be accepted.
BRIEFLY ON THE LIFE STORY OF THE BOOK “HALQA”
By the grace of Allah, the prayers of great people and the help of good people, the book “Halqa” has been published, alhamdu lillah. This forlorn book has a hard life story. This…
Lately some people, knowingly or not, have taken to blaming the Uzbek people. This saddens us. Moreover,…
May my God make it good and blessed! The author. For a thousand years, bearer of the banner of glory and splendor, An invincible army amid great battles! A sacrifice for the…
BOOKS AND READING
Just reading any book at all is not knowledge. Reading a book without a teacher multiplies ignorance. In Turkestan the culture of reading books has a history of more than a…
The Wisdom of Raising Children
A child cannot repay the debt he owes his parents. Nor should parents raise a child so as to put him in debt and then have him repay it. There are several divine wisdoms in being…
RISALAYI MARGHUBA
My mother's grandfather, Mulla Olim, rahmatullahi alayh, was one of the murshids of the Naqshbandi path. During the former Soviet colonial period he guided people toward religion…
To our green, raw, half-baked younger brothers who present themselves and their whole lives as a picture of…
painting even their mistakes in the color of virtue, step by step making themselves out to be harmless and hardworking, and handing this out to people, we have this to say — this…
G. G. MÁRQUEZ. The novel ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
I came to the conclusion that this novel is an allegory of humanity's present and future state. At any rate, it clearly is not about the past. It is a huge parable of the…
ON FAMILY-WRECKERS, OR HOME-WRECKERS
The family is sacred. It must be kept pure. The family's secrets must stay within the family. Husband and wife are the two halves of one whole. Beware of coming between a husband…
Having finished reading Borges's book "Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", published in Uzbek, I also went through a…
I do my reading when I am busy with something other than my main work. Borges is a man who wanders among fantasies and all sorts of books. A powerful wordsmith who tried to…
You probably know Jorge Luis Borges? He was a contemporary of the writer Julio Cortázar. Argentine writers.
Borges, it turns out, was a librarian, and in the excitement-filled foreword by the translator Sharif Ahmad he is greatly extolled. By the way, the book's title is "Approach to…
I said I was reading books. I have finished P. Mérimée's "Tamango", "The Double Mistake" and other novellas…
Various characters, realistic strokes. Hearts burning between honor and baseness, and so on. Various traits of human nature are laid bare with mercilessness and composure. But the…
In my opinion, it is precisely this process that leads us back to our roots. It grants a genuine and immortal…
In my opinion, it is precisely this process that leads us back to our roots. It grants a genuine and immortal spirit, and, keeping you from being deceived by lies, saves your…
The golden rule of married life:
Wives should not make it their aim never to hear a reproach from their husbands. Reproach and upbringing are an inseparable part of life. Let wives say: “I will please my husband…
Reading should be our constant companion. Because of my field, I read only the works of Hazrat Alisher Navoi.
But I have begun to find time to leaf through some of the books I read in my childhood, adolescence and student years. On the road, at mealtimes and so on. But every day I read,…
THE HUSBAND'S AUTOCRACY
At home the husband must be like a king who holds boundless power. That is, an autocrat. In the family of an autocrat man, order and happiness reign. For a wise man understands…
Thoughts on the book of commentary on "Hayrat ul-abror"
A person who goes into trade looks for the answer to the question of what people are eating and what they are wearing. Because if you sell things that are eaten and worn and used…
HE COUNTS THE DEGREES OF THE RANK OF HIS VERSE AND ASSIGNS A STATION TO EACH
Navoi's poems are of nine bayts, of eleven bayts, of thirteen bayts, For on the tablet the pen adorns them with that hidden pearl. That they are surely never less than seven bayts…
THE ROOT OF IGNORANCE
Refusing to accept the Truth begins with slavery to the ego. A person who does not want to accept the Truth invents all sorts of refutations to reject the truth. Then there is no…
WHERE HAS BARAKAH GONE?
There is no barakah in money, in time, in work. However much money there is, it is not enough for the expenses. Many are in debt. Peace has vanished from hearts, calm from eyes...…
It is hard to keep watch over the heart. It turns very quickly. Its state changes from moment to moment.
You boast of love. But if your beloved drinks blood, how can you drink sherbet?.. A lie — your saying “I love” is a lie… In fact, it is your heart, which allowed you to drink…
Unhappiness is in a person's head.
So those who cannot find happiness in their lives and do not fight for happiness are born unhappy. Happiness is peace of mind, well-being, health, being alive, and most precious…
God cuts off His help from those who set out to get things done by arousing others' pity, presenting…
On the contrary, on those who in any situation do not throw their dead weight onto others, who urge their own ego to fortitude, who can look the truth straight in the eye, He…