Two Ugly Affairs
Shaykh Al-Islām Ibn Taymiyah, may Allāh have
mercy upon him, said:
Amongst the
people there is he who Hasad leads him to backbite. Thus, he combines two ugly
affairs: backbiting and envy.
Source: Majmū’ Al-Fatāwā 28/238
Trans. By Raha
Batts
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In
Muslim, it is reported on the authority of ‘Aishah رضي
الله عنها
that Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said, “Everyone of the children of Adam has been created with
three hundred and sixty joints; so he who declares the Glory of Allāh (i.e., saying Allāhu Akbar), praises Allāh (i.e., Al-hamdu lillāh),
declares Allāh to be One (i.e., Lā ilāha illallāh), glorifies Allāh, and seeks
forgiveness from Allāh (i.e., Astaghfirullāh), and removes stone, or thorn, or
bone from people’s path, and enjoins good and forbids evil, to the number of
those three hundred and sixty, will walk
that day having rescued himself from Hell.”
Source: Riyâd-us-Sâliheen volume 1, page 136, Hadith no. 122, Compiled by Al-Imâm Abu Zakariya Yahya bin Sharaf An-Nawawi Ad-Dimashqi, Commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, Darussalam 1999.
Abdullah
bin Busr رضي الله عنه said that a man asked the Prophet ﷺ, “O Messenger of Allāh! Verily, the sanctions of Islam have become too
numerous for me (to perform them all). Inform me of something (simple) that I
may always adhere to.” The Prophet ﷺ
said, “Let your
tongue always be moist with the remembrance of Allāh.”
At-Tirmithi 5/458, Ibn Mājah 2/1246. See Al-Albānī, Sahih At-Tirmithi 3/139 and Sahīh Ibn Mājah 2/317.
Source: Fortress of the Muslim (Invocations from the Qur’ān
& Sunnah), p. 19, Compiled by Sa’id bin Wahf Al-Qahtāni, Darussalam
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Ibnul
Qayyim رحمه الله said:
The
sign of the person’s happiness is to turn their attention toward themselves,
their sins, and faults, and to busy themselves with repentance and
rectification. He will not have time to reflect over what befell him; rather, he turns toward
repentance. And Allāh will help him , protect him, and defend him. So what can
bring about more joy than that for the slave?!
One Hundred
Pieces of Advice, Authentic Statements Pubs, p. 56
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Shaykh
‘Abdul-‘Aziz ibn ‘Abdullah ibn Baaz (رحمه
الله تعالى رحمة واسعة) said:
“…
Time is life. Those who waste their time are actually wasting their lives; and those who waste
their lives will be full of regret when
it will be too late and will wish that
they could turn back again to the worldly life to act rightly. …”
Majmoo
‘al-Fataawa Ibn Baaz, Vol.: 16; pp.261-262
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Yūnus Ibn Ubayd (d. 139 AH) – رَحِمَهُ
اللهُ – said:
“With good manners, you understand the knowledge. With this
knowledge, your actions are corrected. With actions, wisdom is obtained. With
wisdom, you understand zuhd (abstinence) and are granted its benefits. With
zuhd comes abandoning the world. With abandoning the world comes desire for the Hereafter.
With desire for the Hereafter the pleasure of Allāh – the Mighty
and Majestic – is obtained.”
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Al
Hafiz An Nawawi رحمه الله said:
“Supplication
is a cause for repelling misfortune and the presence of mercy, just as how the
shield is a cause for repelling the weapon and water is a cause for the
emergence of plants from the ground. Therefore, just as how the shield repels the arrow such that they both struggle, such is the
case for supplication and misfortune.
Not taking a shield isn’t from the conditions of acknowledging predestination.
Allaah, the Most High, said, “They
should take precaution and carry weapons.” Allaah predestined the affair (of
being victorious) and its cause.”
Al
Adhkār Pg. 342, Translated by Abūl Abass AbdulKabir Ibn Ibrahim At Tawusiy
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People’s Fear Of
Diseases
Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:
“The diseases of the heart, [mind and soul] are more difficult than [those] of the body
because the utmost [that] diseases of the body [can do] is lead those suffering
from them to death. As for the diseases of the heart, [mind and soul], they lead those
suffering from them to eternal misery, and there is no cure for this [kind of] disease other than
knowledge [of true Islam].”
Miftāḥ Dār Al-Saʿādah, (1/370)
Translated by Mikail
Ibn Mahboob Ariff
Al-Tasfiyah /
tasfiyah.com
أَوَلَا يَرَوْنَ أَنَّهُمْ يُفْتَنُونَ فِي كُلِّ عَامٍ مَّرَّةً أَوْ مَرَّتَيْنِ ثُمَّ لَا يَتُوبُونَ وَلَا هُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ
126. See
they not that they are put in trial once or twice every year (with different
kinds of calamities, disease, famine)? Yet, they turn not in repentance, nor do
they learn a lesson (from it).
al-Hilâlî & Muhsin
Khân Translation , The Noble Qur'ân, Sūrah 9.At-Taubah Ayah 126
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Al-Allaamah
Rabi’ bin Hadee Al-Madkhali (may Allah preserve him) said:
“O brothers!
It is obligated on you to be steadfast – [both] in times of severe poverty and
when afflicted with ailments; in times of hardship and ease, especially in
times of fitan (trials and tribulations).”
Muqaal
Naseehah Wadiyah Liman Yahtrim As- Salafiyyah
Masjid
Al-Furqan –Stoke on Trent
Translation
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In The Name of Allaah The Most Merciful The Bestower of Mercy.
Imaam Abdul Azeez Bin Baaz (rahimahullaah) said:
Whoever exercises patience during times of affliction, thankful during times of ease, submissive to Allaah (Glorified be He) when calamities occur, expresses disappointment about himself to Allaah, due to his sins and shortcomings, and seeks Allaah’s Mercy and Forgiveness, then indeed he [or she] will succeed with all success and with a praiseworthy end...
Source: Taken from a small risaalah of Imaam Bin Baaz
(rahimahullaah) titled: ‘Obligation of repenting to Allaah’ Pages 1-8’ Abridged
and slightly paraphrased
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Disbelief and sins are
the cause of every affliction and evil in this life and the next. As for
Tawheed, belief in Allaah and His Messengers, obedience to Allaah and His
Messengers, holding fast to Allaah’s Sharee’ah and calling to it, and rejecting
what is in opposition to it, this is the cause of every good in this life and
the hereafter. And adhering firmly to it, enjoining it and
co-operating upon it is the [real] source of honour in this life and the
hereafter, safety from every hated thing and protection from every Fitnah, as
Allaah [The Most High] said:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِن تَنصُرُوا
اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ
O you who believe! If
you help (in the cause of) Allah, He will help you, and make your foothold
firm. 47:7
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The great scholar Bakr
al-Muzanee رَحِمهُ
اللهُ said:
“There is not a day that
Allaah brings forth to the people of this life except it (the day) calls out:
“O son of Aadam! Take benefit
from me (by doing righteous deeds) perhaps there will be no day for you after me.”
And there is no night except
that it calls out:
“O son of Aadam! Benefit from
me perhaps there will be no night for you after me.”
Lataaif al-Maa’rif, p. 6.
Daar Ibn al-Jawzee (Egypt) print. 1st Edition
Translation by: MarkazMuaadh.com
Six Mighty Wisdoms Behind Why
We Do Not Hear the Dead in Their Graves
Shaykh Ibn al-Uthaymeen
(rahimahullaah) said, in his explanation of Al-Aqidah al-Wasitiyyah 2/118-119:
And this is for (numerous)
mighty wisdoms, from them:
[1] What is indicated by the
Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wasallam) in his saying, “Were it not that you
would not have buried (your dead) I would have invoked Allaah to let you hear
(the cries) of the punishment of the grave.”
[2] Concealing it is a veil
(covering) for the deceased.
[3] That it does not cause the
deceased’s family to be disturbed.
[4] Not embarrassing (shaming)
of his family, since the people will say “This is your son”, “This is your father”,This
is your brother” and what is like this.
[5] That we may perish (as a
result) because it is not a light type of screaming, it is a screaming that
will cause our hearts to be plucked out , a person will die or may fall
unconscious (out of fear, terror).
[6] If the people heard the
cries of the deceased being punished, then faith in the punishment of the grave
would be reduced to faith through direct observation and not faith in the
unseen, and therefore the purposeful benefit of testing people would be lost,
because the people would obviously believe in what they witness. However, when
it is hidden from them and they do not know of it except through relayed
information (khabar), then it becomes from faith in the unseen.
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Allah the Exalted said:
وَهُوَ الْغَفُورُ الْوَدُودُ
And He is Oft-Forgiving, Full of love (Soorah Al Burûj 85:14)
Imam
as-Sa’di said: The subtly for “Full of love” being coupled with “Oft-Forgiving”
is to show the sinners if they repent to Allah, He will forgive them of their
sins and He will love them. Those who say the repentant sinners are forgiven
but the love does not return to them are incorrect.
Tafsir
as-Sa’di
Translated
by Ustaadh Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee
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Allaah said:
مَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ حَرْثَ الْآخِرَةِ نَزِدْ لَهُ فِي حَرْثِهِ ۖ وَمَن كَانَ يُرِيدُ حَرْثَ الدُّنْيَا نُؤْتِهِ مِنْهَا وَمَا لَهُ فِي الْآخِرَةِ مِن نَّصِيبٍ
“Whosoever
desires (by his deeds) the reward of the
Hereafter, We give him increase in his reward, and whosoever desires the reward
of this world (by his deeds), We give him thereof (what is decreed for him),
and he has no portion in the Hereafter.
Surah
Ash-Shūra 42:20
Al-Hilālī & Khān Translation, The Noble Qur'ān
Ibn
Mas’ud رضي
الله عنه
said:
“Whoever would like to know whether they love Allaah, then let them compare themselves to the Qur’an. If they love the Qur’an, then
they love Allaah, the
Mighty and Majestic, as the
Qur’an is
the Speech of Allaah.”
(Al-Sunnah
of Abdullah b. Ahmad no.125: 1/148)
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Zakariyya) of Germantown Masjid Philadelphia
Yahyā Ibn Mu’ādh رَحِمَهُ اللهُ said:
The Dunyā is
the Khamr (Liquor) of Shaytān. He who is intoxicated by it will never sober
except when he is amongst the dead in a state of regret and loss.
Jāmi’ Al-‘Ulūm Wal-Hikam, p. 376
Translated by Raha Batts حفظه
الله
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Save yourself from
the fire by having taqwa of Allāh and
(likewise) save your children from the fire by way of (giving them) righteous
cultivation upon Islam and upon (performing actions of) the religion and having
excellent manners. If not (i.e. if you
have not given them this cultivation) then, indeed you have betrayed the
responsibility which you were entrusted with.
Source:
Official website of Shaykh Ṣālih Al-Fawzān
(hafidahullāh)
https://www.alfawzan.af.org.sa/
Translation
by The Salafi Centre of Manchester المركز السلفي
كُلَّ
يَوْمٍ هُوَ فِي شَأْنٍ
“Every day He (Allaah) is (engaged) in some
affair.”
(Soorah al-Rahmaan ayah 29)
Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ said:
“From
among His (Allaah’s) affairs is that He is forgiving sins, relieving hardships,
raising a people and debasing others.”
Saheeh Ibn
Majaah no. 202
Translation
by MarkazMuaadh.com
Az-Zubair bin ‘Adi
said:
We went to Anas bin Mâlik رضي الله عنه and
complained to him of suffering at the hands of Al-Hajjâj. He replied: “Show
endurance, for no time will come but will be followed by one worse (than the
present one) till you meet your Rubb, I heard this from your Prophet ﷺ.” [Al-Bukhârî)
Commentary: This Hadîth contains
the prediction that with the passage of time, conditions will become from bad
to worse with the result that the rulers would become more and more cruel. In
such circumstances, the remedy suggested here is that rather than making any
effort to reform the rulers, one should try to reform oneself and worry to make
one’s own life in the Hereafter, and endure patiently the tyrannies perpetrated
by the rulers.
شرح رياض الصالحين
Source: Riyâd-us-Sâliheen volume 1, page 110, Hadith no. 92, Compiled by Al-Imâm Abu Zakariya Yahya bin Sharaf An-Nawawi Ad-Dimashqi, Commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, Darussalam 1999.
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