Al- Imām Ibn Qayyim (رحمه الله) said:
The
sign of happiness is that the servant’s good deeds are behind his back and his evils [sins, disobedience] are before his eyes. And the sign of
wretchedness is that he puts his good
deeds in front of his eyes and his evils behind his back [as if he never did
them].
Miftāḥu Dār as-Sa’ādah (2/843)
Trans. By Markaz Ar-Raziyayn
(Melbourne)
Dhun
Nuun of Egypt said:
“From the signs of repentance is abandoning evil
brothers and sticking to the people of good.”
Shu’abul
Imaan of Al-Imam Al-Bayhaqi narration number 6782.
Translation
By: Abū Anwar An-Naijiriy
@pristinemethodology
Ibnul Qayyim رحمه الله said:
You must ensure that you only care about one thing – namely working
for the pleasure of Allah alone, for indeed it is the ultimate
happiness that a servant of Allāh can ever dream of having.
Heartfelt Advice To A Friend, Dār as-Sunnah Publishers, p. 38-39
Ibnul Qayyim رحمه الله said:
Every time an
individual performs a sin, he drops a level and will continue to fall until he
ends up in the lowest state . However, every time he performs a good deed, he
will be raised until he ends up in the highest position.
The Disease And The
Cure, Hikmah Pubs, p. 154
t.me/salafirecording
Shaykh Al-Fawzān حفظه الله said:
The more the tongue utters speech void of the remembrance of
Allāh, then the harder the heart becomes. Many people waste their time with gossip, with speech that contain no
benefit, and with laughter, play and heedlessness. Verily, this hardens the
heart.
Sharh Kitāb al-Kabā’ir, p. 109
Taken from A Treatise In Condemnation Of The Hardness Of The
Heart, Hikmah Pubs, p. 34 in the
footnote.
Source: youtube.com/c/SalafiRecordings
t.me/SalafiRecording
The Meaning of
Ibādah and Islām
Ibn
Kathīr (رَحِمَهُ اللهُ)
said:
Ibādah
is obedience to Allāh by acting upon
what He commands, abandoning what He forbids, and this is the reality and
essence of Islām. And the meaning of Islām is: Istislām (submission and
surrender) to Allāh (سُبحَانَهُ وَتَعَالَى) along with the utmost
compliance, humility, and submissiveness to Him.”
Source:
Tafsīr al-Qur’āni al-‘Adthīm (7/402)
Translator: TROID Editorial Staff
https://troid.org/
Imām ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir al-Saʿdī رَحِمَهُ اللهُ:
The true believer must
allow fear and hope to consistently accompany him in all his
affairs. This is because he possesses two outlooks. When he looks
inwardly, he sees his own deficiency in the fulfilment of Allāh’s rights. This instils fear. Then, his second outlook is
towards the blessings of Allāh upon him,
and the goodness He has shown. This instils hope within him.
Source: Al-Durar al-Fākhirah: 15-16
Translated by: Riyāḍ al-Kanadī
https://www.troid.org/why-we-fear-and-hope-in-allah/
Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymīn رحمه الله said:
“Gratitude must be shown for Allāh’s
favours by performing righteous actions.”
Source:
Sharḥ Al-Arba’in An-Nawawiyyah p. 129
Translator: Abū ‘Affān ‘AbdulQādir
Ar-Risaalah
Publications
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WINTER
IS A TIME FOR CONTEMPLATION AND INCREASED WORSHIP
Al-Ḥasan al-Baṣri رَحِمَهُ اللهُ)) said:
“Winter is the believer’s most beloved season. Its
nights are long for those who wish to pray, and its days are short for those
who wish to fast.”
Source: Latāif al-Ma’ārif, pg. 327
Translated by: Musa Shaleem Mohammed
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Imām Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه
الله
said:
“Remembrance of Allāh
illuminates the heart, the face and the limbs. It is the light of the slave in his
worldly life, in the grave, and on the Day of Resurrection.”
al-Wābil
aṣ-Ṣayyib p. 135
Translated
by Ar-Risaalah Publications
https://arrisaalahpubs.com/
Ibnul-Qayyim said:
Sadaqah has an
amazing effect in repelling various types of calamities, even if it may be
given by a sinner or wrongdoer; rather,
(even if from) a disbeliever, Allah, the Exalted, will remove from him various types of calamity due to it.
This is an affair which is known by the people, the erudite and the commoners,
and all of the people of the earth can affirm this because they have
experienced it.
Source: Wabil
As-Sayyib pg. 31
Translated by Ustadh
Raha Batts (may Allah preserve him)
Taken from: Masjid Ad
Da’wah Ilat Tawheed (telegram account)
01.11.22 at 6:42 PM
Ibn Al-Qayyim (٦٩١ - ٧٥١ هـ) رحمه الله said:
“Al-Abrār (the pious believers of Islamic Monotheism) will leave this Dunyah (worldly life) while he did not obtain satisfaction in two things: crying for himself and glorifying/praising Allah.”
كتاب
بدائع الفوائد
ابن قيم الجوزية
How Do You Attain Certainty (Yaqīn)
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:
وأما
كيف يحصل اليقين فبثلاثة أشياء : أحدها : تدبر القرآن .والثاني : تدبر الآيات التي
يحدثها الله في الأنفس والآيات التي تبين أنه حق .الثالث : العمل بموجب العلم.
“As for how certainty
is acquired, then it is through three things: The first of them is
contemplation over the Qurʾān. The second is contemplation over the signs Allāh
places in the souls and the signs that make clear that it (the Qurʾān) is the truth. The third is
acting upon the requirement of knowledge.”
Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā (3/330)
By Abu IyaadSP أبو عياض
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Rectify What
Is Between You And Allāh.
Scholars
used to offer admonitions and write to one another regarding three things: “Whoever
rectifies himself internally, Allāh will make him upright externally as well.
And whoever rectifies whatever is between himself and Allāh, then Allāh will
rectify whatever is between him and the people. And whoever rectifies the
matter of his hereafter, then Allāh will rectify his worldly life.”
[As-Siyar
by adh-Dhahābi]
We’re
not Ready – Abu Suhailah ‘Umar Quinn. It has been taken from the Learn of Islam
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Enlighten the Heart
Abū ‘Imrān al-Jūnī:
“Whoever loves that his heart is
enlightened for him then let him eat less.”
[ Jāmi’ al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (v. 2 p. 472) ]
عبد الصمد بن خالد
Translated by Aboo Ruqayyah 'Abd us-Samad
NOTE: Posted
wih kind permission
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Imaam
Abu Bakr Muhammad Ibn Al-Husayn Al-Aajurree [may Allaah have mercy upon him]
said:
Allaah
said:
فَإِذَا جَاءَتِ الطَّامَّةُ الْكُبْرَىٰ
يَوْمَ يَتَذَكَّرُ الْإِنسَانُ مَا
سَعَىٰ
وَبُرِّزَتِ الْجَحِيمُ لِمَن يَرَىٰ
فَأَمَّا مَن طَغَىٰ
وَآثَرَ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا
فَإِنَّ الْجَحِيمَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَىٰ
وَأَمَّا مَنْ خَافَ مَقَامَ رَبِّهِ
وَنَهَى النَّفْسَ عَنِ الْهَوَىٰ
فَإِنَّ الْجَنَّةَ هِيَ الْمَأْوَ
But
when there comes the greatest catastrophe (i.e. the Day of Recompense, etc.),
the Day when man shall remember what he strove for, and Hell-fire shall be made
apparent in full view for (every) one who sees, then, for him who Tagha
(transgressed all bounds, in disbelief, oppression and evil deeds of
disobedience to Allah). And preferred the life of this world (by following his
evil desires and lusts), verily, his abode will be Hell-fire; but as for him
who feared standing before his Lord, and restrained himself from impure evil
desires, and lusts, then verily, Paradise will be his abode. [Surah An-Naazi’aat. Aayaat 34-41]
It
is obligated on the one who hears this
from Allaah [i.e. the affairs stated about the nafs in the Qur’an and Sunnah]
that he is more careful or cautious about his nafs than an enemy that wants to kill him , or take his wealth,
or violate his honour. If someone says: “Why do you obligate – on me – this
precaution about the Nafs until you place it in a situation that is more severe
than an enemy whose enmity is certainly very manifest? It should then be said
to him, “The enemy of yours who wants to kill you, or wants to take your wealth
or violate your honour, if he overcomes you with what he does to you, then
indeed Allaah will expiate some of your sins and raise your status, but this
will not be the case with the nafs because if the nafs overcomes you by way of
that which you desire – that which you have forbidden, then this contains
destruction for you in this Dunya and the Aakhirah – disgrace and severe
punishment in the Dunyah, and an evil state in the sight of Allaah and destination
in the Aakhirah...
[Sharh Adabun Nufoos: https://al-badr.net/sub/358%5D]
(Selected from the article A Brief Admonition Regarding the Souls and How to Discipline It, pp. 1-2, Written & Translated by Abdullah Jallow for https://masjidfurqan.co.uk)
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It was said to Abu ‘Ali Al-Fudayl bin ‘Iyād (d. 187H):
يا
أبا علي، ما معنى أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا؟ قال: “أخلصه وأصوبه”، قيل: ما أخلصه؟ وما
أصوبه؟ قال: «إنَّ العمل إذا كان خالصًا ولم يكن صوابًا لم يُقبل، وإن كان صوابًا
ولم يكن خالصًا فلم يُقبل، حتى يكون خالصًا صوابًا”، قيل: يا أبا علي، ما هو
الخالص الصواب؟ قال: “الخالص: أن يكون لله، والصواب: أن يكون على السنة”
“O Abu ‘Ali, what is the meaning of ‘best in deeds’? He replied:
‘To make it sincere and correct.’ He was asked: ‘What is meant by making it
sincere and correct?’ He replied: ‘If a deed is done sincerely but not
correctly, it will not be accepted. And if it is done correctly but not
sincerely, it will not be accepted - until it is done both sincerely and
correctly.’ It was said: ‘O Abu ‘Ali, what is sincerity and what is correct?’
He replied: ‘Sincerity is that the deeds is done purely for Allah and correct
is that it is done according to the Sunnah.”
Al-Imām Ibn Bāz (rahimahullāh) commented on these words of Fudayl
bin ‘Iyād (rahimahullāh) said:
فالاهتمام
بإحسان العمل أعظم وأوْلى من الكثرة، فكون المؤمن يهتم بإخلاص العمل وتنقيته من
الرياء وغيره من أنواع الشرك، ويهتم بمُطابقته للشريعة، وألا يكون فيه ابتداعٌ؛
هذا أهم من الكثرة
“Making the deed correct (according to the Sunnah) is more
important than quantity - and the servant must give importance to performing the
deed sincerely for Allah and purifying it from riyā (i.e. showing off to
impress the people) and other than that from the categories of Shirk. So a
person is to give importance to making sure the deed complies with the Sharī’ah
and that is free from innovation - that is more important that quantity.”
(Ref: binbaz.org.sa/fatwas/2746)
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Excerpted from the article Ikhlās (Sincerity): Its meaning and how
to achieve it―and a word on avoiding the whisperings of Shaytān written by our teacher Ustādh
Abu Khadeejah Abdul-Wahīd ‘Alam
For original, genuine & safe copy please see here >>https://www.abukhadeejah.com/ikhlas-its-meaning-how-to-achieve-it-and-the-whisperings-of-shaytan/
Imām As-Sa’dee رحمه الله said,
For the blissful individual is one who recognises the nobility & excellence of Ramadān & takes advantage of it, & the wretched & deprived is one who neglects & wastes it.
مجموع مؤلفات الشيخ العلامة عبدالرحمن بن ناصر السعدي ج.٢٣، ص.٦٣
TRANSLATION SOURCE: MarkazMuaadh.com
13 May 2019 – 3:34 AM
Did you know…
The noble wife of the Prophet ﷺ- Zaynab bint Khuzaymah رضي الله عنها was known as Umm al-Masākeen (the mother of the needy) as she was known to love the poor and was kind towards them, she was compassionate & kindhearted.
[Taken from Shaykh ‘Ubayd
al-Jābiree’s حفظه الله
annotations on Shaykh Uthaymeen’s رحمه الله explanation of Luma’tu al-‘Itiqād pg. 360]
TRANSLATION SOURCE:
MarkazMuaadh.com
9 April 2019 // 9:59
PM
Al-Albānī:
“I am just – as I have repeatedly said
– a student of knowledge.”
[Al-Hudā wa an-Nūr (no. 8)]
Translated by عبد الصمد بن خالد