As Salaamu Alaikum wa Rahmatullaah,

InshAllah you are well, in the best of health and emaan and keeping warm lol

I thought i'd post this on revival as it carries a nice message and was mailed to me by someone at uni islamic society.

" The Sahabah (radiAllaahu anhum) recited the Quran and this was the only source of knowledge for them. Before Islaam came, they were illiterate people who were ignorant. In one occasion, a few companions saw Umar ibn al-Khattab (radiAllaahu anhu) laughing and then crying; one after the other.They asked what had caused that to happen to him. He said. "I remember that in the days of Jahiliyyah, I used to have this idol made of dates. One day, I became so hungry that I ate a piece of it. And then, I cried when I remembered digging a hole and burying my daughter. Whilst I was putting her in, she reached up and brushed dirt from my beard.” As a Muslim these incidents made him cry and laugh. Without Islaam these moments weren’t funny or sad, it was normal. Without Islaam, making sujood to an idol made out of dates and then eating the same dates was absolutely fine and acceptable and killing a baby girl alive was acceptable. It was Islaam that changed Umar (radiAllaahu anhu); it was the Quran. So the Sahabah had nothing without the Quran, they had no formal education. What they had after Islaam was what they learned from the Book of Allaah. "

Source: http://www.kalamullah.com/Books/Understanding%20the%20Quran.pdf

hope ur all enjoying the holidays btw