Ibn Rajab رَحِمَهُ اللهُ said:
Emptying the stomach of food and drink enlightens the heart and
softens it, removes hardness from it, and cleanses it for the remembrance of Allāh and contemplation.
Righteous and Virtuous Deeds, Hikmah Pubs, p. 147
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‘Umar, may Allāh be pleased with him, said:
If
Allāh has given you the love of a Muslim, hold onto it as much as you can.
Kitāb
Al-Muwashshā pg. 18
Translated
by: Ustādh Raha Batts (hafidhahullāh)
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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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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
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Ibn
Al-Jawzī رحمه الله said:
The idiot is
known by six characteristics:
• Becoming angry
over nothing.
• Giving to one
who should not be given to.
• Speaking
regarding that which is of no benefit.
• Trusting
everyone.
• Spreading
secrets and not differentiating (in that) between his friend and his enemy.
• Speaking about
whatever comes to his heart whilst believing that he is the most intelligent of
the people.
Akhbaar
Al-Hamqaa wal-Mughaffileen (Narrations regarding the Foolish and Heedless)
Translated by
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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
Shaykhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allāh have mercy upon him, said:
“A person may know that the truth is with someone else but in spite of this, he obstinately rejects it due to his envy of that person or due to him seeking to make himself uppermost over him or due to personal desires. And those desires lead him to transgress against him and reject what he is saying by any means (necessary) while within his heart he knows that the truth is with him.”
Translated by:
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Source: Majmū’ Al-Fatāwā 7/191
There is
no purification for is soul except by freeing it from Shirk in all of
its types and by freeing it of everything which nullifies and weakens Tawhīd.
Source: Ten Principles
Concerning Purification of the Soul by Shaykh Abd al-Razzāq al-Abbād, page 11. Published by Hikmah Publications
Translated by Raha Batts
Ibn Taymiyyah:
Knowledge is (one of) two things:
1. An affirmed transmission
2. A verified research
That which is besides these two is (merely) embellished
nonsense.
Ar-Radd ‘Alā
Al-Bakrī 2/729
Translated by Raha Batts
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
Ibn Rajab said:
“If the believer deems the relief from
distress to be delayed and loses hope on it after much supplication and
humility, and the effects of the answer to his supplication are not evident
then he blames himself and says to it (himself): ‘This has only come to me
because of you. Had there been any good in you, you would have been responded to.’ This self-reproach
is more beloved to Allāh than an abundance of acts of obedience. For it
necessitates the servant humbling himself before his Patron – Lord and
acknowledging that he is deserving of that which has befallen him from trials and that he is not deserving
of a response to his supplication. When this occurs the response to his
supplication and the relief from his
difficulty will come to him swiftly. For Allāh ( i.e., His relief) is with the humility of their hearts to Him.”
Jāmi’ Al-‘Ulūm wal-Hikam (1/494)
Trans. By Raha Batts
6:57 AM · May 2, 2018
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4:57 PM · Aug 5, 2019
Imâm Ash-Shawkâni said:
It is called Ramadân because it
burns away sins; meaning, it burns them by way of righteous deeds.
Source: Fat’h Al-Qadir 1/2120
Trans. By Raha Batts (hafidhahullah
Ta’ala)
3: 36 AM . 14 May 2019
Ibnul-Qayyim Al-Jawziyah said:
When the sun of the Sunnah rises
within the heart of the slave it removes
from his heart the fog of every
innovation.
Madārij
As-Sālikīn 1/374
Translated by Raha Batts
22 January 2016 // 3:42 AM
What should I do in
a gathering wherein the people
are backbiting?
There is a sin upon you unless you
criticize this evil. Otherwise, it is obligatory upon you to separate from them
and not sit with them.
Shaykh Abdul-Azeez ibn Baaz Majmoo’
Al-Fataawaa 8/283
Trans. By Raha Batts
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Shaykh
Rabī ibn Hādī said:
No one learns courageousness. It is a gift (from Allāh).
Hence, the coward will be a coward even if you were
to give him every weapon.
Source:
Al-Majmū’ 7/15
Trans.
By Raha Batts
9
April 2019 // 11:34 AM
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Shaykh Muhammad Ibn Saalih Al-Uthaymeen said: If you
want to kill a mouse – and killing them is recommended – then kill it with Ihsaan.
Kill it with that which will remove it’s soul right away and not cause harm to
it. From that which causes harm to it (the mouse) is that which some people do
from placing sticky (traps) down for it then the mouse sticks to it and is left
to die hungry and thirsty. This is not permissible. If you place one of these
traps down you must repeatedly check and watch it so that if you find anything
on it you can kill it (right away). As for leaving it for two and three days
such that a mouse lands upon it and is made to die hungry and thirsty it is
feared that you will enter the fire due to this. For the Prophet, peace be upon
him, said: A woman entered the fire due to a cat which she locked up and did
not feed, nor did she allow it to roam freely so that it may eat from the
vermin of the land.
Source: Explanation of Riyaadh As-Saaliheen 4/569
Translated by Raha Batts حفظه الله
Published on November 2, 2015 at 8:57 AM