Review with Muhammad

This book was first published in July 2021 by Dar as-Sunnah Publishers and it was an English transcription of an Arabic manuscript that was written about eight centuries ago by Imam Al-Hafiz Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah titled Tuhfatul mawdood bi ahkaamil mawlood which translates as “a gift to the loved one regarding requirements of the newborn” Ibn Qayyim was an exegete, and legal jurist born 691AH in the village of Zar, near Damascus, Syria. He was described to have an intense love for knowledge, for books, for publications and writings since in his early age. He acquired deep understanding of books of the Salaf. He attained great proficiency especially in tafsir, hadith and usul. He was a student of many scholars notable among them is Ibn Taymiyyah for he studied under him for 16 years. He also had many students, prominent among them are Ibn Kathir, Adh Dhazabi, Ibn Rajab and two of his sons namely Ibrahim and Sharafud din. He authored over 60 works in the fields of Hadith, Seerah, Fiqh,...

Dr Benjamin Carson first became known internationally after leading a medical team at John Hopkins hospital, Baltimore in United States in 1987 to separate 7month old babies who were joined at the back of their heads since birth (Siamese twins). The 22hour long surgery took about 5 months of intensive preparation by a team of 70 personnel consisting of five neurosurgeons, two cardiac surgeons, five plastic surgeons, seven pediatric anesthesiologists and dozens of nurses and technicians. The disturbing moment during the surgery was when the hospital ran out of blood and none was available in the whole of Baltimore city. Eight members of the team volunteered to donate theirs, beautiful! But luckily, American Red Cross intervened after putting a call across with 10 units as required. Theresa Binder was the mother of these twins and her husband Josef, gave birth to them on 2nd February of 1987 in Ulm, West Germany and there were named Patrick and Benjamin. Theresa kept her hope alive despi...

126 paged text of Kleon is truly inspiring. The artistical features that married the simplicity of the message therein will hold you captive till you get to the end of it. It’s truly stuff that I personally never been told except through the book. It’s somehow a break from the norm as it emphasized that for one to be creative, first, must be a creative thief, somehow awkward right? But it’s indeed a fact. One must be skilled enough to steal the ideas of many, internalize them and give birth to their own masterpiece. Everyone must have learned, copied or steal from others. It is a book that every beginner in creative world would not be sufficient from.   Here are the 10 things Austin took us through: 1.        STEAL LIKE AN ARTIST Steal Like an Artist Austin argue that the concept of ‘original’ is but a vague as somehow, we mould our works after copying from others. “When you copy from one person, it’s plagiarism but when you copy from many, it’...