Narrated ‘Utban bin Malik Al-Ansari: who was one of the men of the tribe of Bani Salim:
Allah’s Messenger ﷺ came to me and said, “If anybody comes on the Day of
Resurrection who has said: La ilaha illal-lah, sincerely, with the intention to
win Allah’s Pleasure, Allah will make the Hell-Fire forbidden for him.
(Sahih
al-Bukhari 6423 In-book reference: Book 81, Hadith 12 Translated by Muhsin
Khan)
Imam
Bukhari Centre -Liverpool
Source:
MarkazBukhari.com
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Most of the sins of the son of Aadam
are due to his tongue.”
[Silsilah al-Ahadeeth as-Saheehah no. 534]
Translation: MarkazMuaadh.com
The Link Between Blessings and Gratitude
It is reported that ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib
– Allāh be pleased with him – said:
Blessings arrive with gratitude [to Allāh], and
gratitude is connected with more [blessings], and the two are tied together:
more blessings from Allāh will never stop unless gratitude from the servant
stops.
Ibn Abī Al-Dunyā, Al-Shukr article 18.
Source: https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/link-blessings-gratitude/
حَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ، حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ، عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ، عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَرْضَى لَكُمْ ثَلاَثًا وَيَكْرَهُ لَكُمْ ثَلاَثًا فَيَرْضَى لَكُمْ أَنْ تَعْبُدُوهُ وَلاَ تُشْرِكُوا بِهِ شَيْئًا وَأَنْ تَعْتَصِمُوا بِحَبْلِ اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا وَلاَ تَفَرَّقُوا وَيَكْرَهُ لَكُمْ قِيلَ وَقَالَ وَكَثْرَةَ السُّؤَالِ وَإِضَاعَةَ الْمَالِ
Abu Hurairah reported Allah’s Messenger (ﷺ) as saying: “Verily Allah likes three things for you and He disapproves three things for you. He is pleased with you that you worship Him and associate none with Him (in worship), that you hold fast the rope of Allah, and be not divided; and He disapproves for you hearsay and gossip, persistent questioning and the wasting of wealth.” [Sahih Muslim]
Translation source: SalafiSounds.com
Having Boyfriends & Girlfriends –
Shaykh Uthaymeen
What is the ruling on a man and woman
who kiss, and do everything else other than intercourse?
These actions which you mentioned are
impermissible, haram upon them, because Allah – the Most High- says:
And those who guard their chastity
(i.e private parts, from illegal sexual acts) except from their wives or that their right hands possess, for
then, they are free from blame, but whoever seeks beyond that, then those are the
transgressors; Al-Muminoon 5-7
And His statement – The One free from deficiency,
the Most High:
And come not near to the unlawful
sexual intercourse. Verily, it is
a Fahishah [i.e. anything that transgress its
limits (a great sin)], and an evil way (that leads one to Hell unless Allah
forgives him). Al Israa- 32
And He did not say, and do not fornicate, for the
reason of tackling everything that is a cause and leads to fornication, and
this, what they are doing, is zina of the hand by touching, zina of the eye by
looking, zina of the feet by walking (to do that which is haraam), this is
impermissible for them, upon them is to repent from it.
And upon those in responsibility is to educate
them and dissuade them from the likes of these actions, and avert them from this
sin.
The Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alaihi wa
sallam) did not prohibit being alone with a strange woman (one who it is not
permissible to be alone with) except fearing from this action and its likes.
So you, may Allah give you success, advise them,
with that which is upon you, and warn them from this, the impermissibility of
this is clear and is present in the books of tafseer, books of hadeeth, books
of fiqh, all of them, and it is not allowed and it is impermissible.
Slightly Paraphrased from Fataawa Noor alad Darb
of Shaykh Uthaymeen Vol 5 Pg 549
المركز السلفي
Translated by The Salafi Centre of Manchester
Imaam ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) mentioned that from the benefits in lowering the gaze:
أنه
يمنع من وصول أثر السهم المسموم الذي لعل فيه هلاكه إلى قلبه
It prevents the effects of the poisonous arrow
from reaching his heart, which may lead to his destruction.
[Ad-Daa’ wad-Dawa’]
Translated by Markaz Mu’aadh
Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen –Rahimahullaah – said:
“…and removing harm from the
path to people’s
hearts and righteous deeds, has a greater reward and more urgency than removing harm from
pathways where people walk.”
[Riyadh as-Saliheen 2/177)
Translation by Miraath Publications
(A Collection of Beneficial Statements)
Explanation of the Duʿāʾ for Grief and Sorrow
....
Nothing can remove these matters of sadness, grief, worry, melancholy or depression except to return to Allāh with a true return, and a complete breaking down before Allāh, and a total submission to Him, and humbling oneself before Him and submitting one's affair to him in totality, and a complete belief in the just decree of Allāh. Alongside this, the actualisation and firm belief in the Highest Loftiest Names and Attributes of Allāh and believing in His Book, and to be concerned with reciting and reflecting upon His Book, and acting upon what is in it. With this, and not with anything else, these matters of sadness, grief and worry are removed. This is the manner of removing regret and with this alone will the chest open and serenity, peace and harmony will be brought and happiness will be actualised.
It is recorded with Imam Aḥmad, Saḥīḥ ibn Hibbān and other than them on the authority of ʿAbdullāh ibn Masʿūd (raḍi Allāhu ͑anhū) that the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ͑ alayhī wa-sallam) said,
‘No servant has ever said when met with sorrow, grief or worry, saying:
اللَّهُمَّ إِنِّي عَبْدُكَ ابْنُ عَبْدِكَ ابْنُ أَمَتِكَ نَاصِيَتِي بِيَدِكَ، مَاض ٍ فِيَّ حُكْمُكَ، عَدْل ٌ فِيَّ قَضَاؤُكَ أَسْأَلُكَ بِكُلِّ اِسْمٍ هُوَ لَكَ سَمَّيْتَ بِه ِِ نَفْسَكَ أَوْ أَنْزَلْتَه ُُ فِي كِتَابِكَ، أَوْ عَلَّمْتَهُ~ُ أَحَدا ً مِنْ خَلْقِكَ أَوِ اسْتَأْثَرْتَ بِه ِِ فِي عِلْمِ الغَيْبِ عِنْدَكَ أَنْ تَجْعَلَ القُرْآنَ رَبِيْعَ قَلْبِي، وَنوْرَ صَدْرِي وَجَلَاءَ حُزْنِي وَذَهَابَ هَمِّي
O Allāh, I am Your servant, son of Your servant, son of Your maidservant, my forelock is in Your hand (i.e. You have total mastery over), Your command over me is forever executed and Your decree over me is just. I ask You by every name belonging to You which You named Yourself with, or revealed in Your Book, or You taught to any of Your creation, or You have preserved in the knowledge of the unseen with You, that You make the Qurʾān the life of my heart and the light of my breast, and a departure for my sorrow and a release for my anxiety.’
Except that Allāh will remove his sadness grief and worry, and he will replace it with happiness.’ They (the Companions) said, ‘O Messenger of Allāh! It befits us that we learn these words.’ He said ‘Yes, it befits the one who hears them to learn them.’1
Endnotes:
1 This is recorded in the Musnad of Imām Aḥmad and authenticated as Ṣaḥiḥ by
Shaykh al-Albānī in his Aḥādith al-Ṣaḥīḥah
No.199 and there is an explanation in al-Fawāʾid of Imām Ibn Qayyim (raḥimahullāh).
Explained
by Abū ʿUways ʿAbdullāh Aḥmad ͑Alī (may Allāh
have mercy upon him)
Written by Umm Yūsufyān
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Added for the benefit of New Muslims (for easy
memorization of the above du’aa)
Allaahumma ‘innee ‘abduka, ibnu ‘abdika ibnu
‘amatika, naasiyatee biyadika, maadhin fiyya hukmuka, ‘adlun fiyya qadhaa’uka,
‘as ‘aluka bikulli ismiin huwa laka, sammayta bihi nafsaka, ‘aw ‘anzaltahu fee
kitaabika, ‘aw ‘allamtahu ‘ahadan min khalqika ‘awista’tharta bihi fee
‘ilmil-ghaybi ‘indaka, ‘an
taj’alal-Qur’aana rabee’a qalbee, wa noora sadree, wa jalaa’ huznee, wa thahaaba
hammee.1
For sisters it should be:
اللَّهُمَّ إنِّي أَمَتُك ، بِنْتُ عَبْدِك
، ابْنِ أَمَتِك
Allahumma ‘innee’
‘amatika bintu ‘abdika ibni amatika…2
1 حصن المسلم Fortress of the Muslim, p. 140-141 (Invocation from the Qur’ân and Sunnah) by Sa’îd bin Wahf Al-Qahtani
رحمه الله
2 مجموع فتاوى ابن تيمية (2/177)
From Ibn Umar-RadiAllaahu anhumma – who said:
“We would count that the Messenger of Allaah –sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam- would say in one sitting one hundred times:
رَبِّ اغْفِرْليِ وَتُبْ عَلَيَّ إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ
“O my Lord forgive me and accept my repentance indeed You are the One who forgives and Most Merciful.”
Rab-bigh-firlee wa tubb alayya Innaka anta
at-Tawaabu ar-Raheem.
[Collected by Abu Dawood, Tirmidhi &
authenticated by Albaani in Saheeh Abi
Dawood 5/248]
Translation source: Miraath Publications
Impatience does not remove the difficulty
Shaykh Salih Fawzan said: The keys to happiness
are three, as mentioned by Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahab. 1. When the person
is tested he is patient 2. When he is blessed he is grateful 3. When he sins he
seeks forgiveness
When the person is tested he is patient with the
decree of Allah. He does not become
despondent or angry. He knows that whatever befalls him is due to his sins.
وَمَا
أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ
(30)
And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much. (Soorah Ahsh-Shûraa 42:30)
Therefore
he takes himself to account and rectifies his actions and as a result his
calamity becomes a benefit for him and a wake-up call.
This
is in contrast to the person who when tested becomes despondent and angry. His
impatience does not save him from the calamity nor does it allow him to reap
the reward of patience. Thus he loses on both fronts.
أسباب السعادة
https://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/en/node/14350
Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee حفظه الله
‘Umar ‘Abdul ‘Azeez رحمه الله said:
“For verily the
admonishers regarding taqwa (piety) are many, however those who act upon it are
few.”
[Al-Hilyah 5/267]
Source: MarkazMuaadh.com
5:30 PM · Oct 6, 2021 /
“If the Messenger of
Allah ﷺ saw something he liked,
he would say, “All
praise belongs to Allah by whose grace good deeds are completed.”
If he ﷺ saw something he disliked,
he would say, “All praise belongs to Allah in all circumstances.”” Ibn Majah
Translation source: Hikmah Publications
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Added for the benefit of New Muslim
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي بِنِعْمَتِهِ تَتِمُّ الصَّالِحَاتُ
Alhamdulillahil lathee bi ni’matihi tatimmus
saalihaat
“All praise belongs to Allah by whose grace good deeds are completed.”
الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ عَلَى
كُلِّ حَالٍ
Alhamdulillah ‘alaa kulli haal
“All praise belongs to
Allah in all circumstances.”
Sadness that Hits You and You Don't
Know the Reason
Ibn Taymiyah said:
Sufyān Ibn ‘Uyaynah
was asked about sadness that afflicts a person and he doesn’t know the reason.
He replied: “That is due to a sin
which you contemplated doing but didn’t; you were given, as a recompense for
it, sorrow.”
Shaykh Al-Islām said: “Sins have punishments. That which is done secrectly (is
punished) secretly and that which is done openly (is punished) openly.”
Al-Majmū’ 14/111
Trans. By Raha Batts (may Allāh
preserve him)
4:15 AM · Aug 20, 2021