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Beneficial reminders and Islaamic Knowledge from the admin of ilm4all.blogspot.com
Importance of Isteqaamah:
🌟 {Indeed, those who have said: “Our Lord is Allaah”, and then remained steadfast on a right course - the angels will descend upon them, [saying], “Do not fear and do not grieve but receive good tidings of Paradise, which you were promised.}
[Surah Fussilat (41): 30]
🌟 {Indeed, those who have said: “Our Lord is Allaah”, and then remained steadfast on a right course - there will be no fear concerning them, nor will they grieve.}
[Surah al-Ahqaaf (46): 13]
🌟 Narrated Sufyaan Ibn `Abdullaah ath-Thaqafee (Abu `Amrah) رضي الله عنه: I said “O Messenger of Allaah! Tell me something about Islaam after which I will not need to ask anyone besides you. He صلى الله عليه وسلم said: ❝Say I believe in Allah — and then be steadfast.❞
[Saheeh Muslim]
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Definition: It means: “to go straight into the right direction, acting rightly, allowing no deviation or swerving or swaying.”
Accepting the Truth (al-Islaam) is easy, but remaining firm and steadfast upon it – in the long term - is a challenge, except for whom Allaah made it easy. But as time elapses, the zeal and enthusiasm goes to the south.
🚫 Allaah warned in Surah al-Hashr not to let the hearts get hardened with the passing of time and this is what led to the deviation of the people of the Book.
🚫 The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم warned that people will be Muslims in the Day, but will become Kaafir by evening; or he will be a Muslim in the evening, but will become a Kaafir by the morning. [Saheeh Muslim]
🚫 The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم warned that some people from this Ummah will turn become idol worshipers. [As per the Ahaadeeth reported in the Saheehain and the books of Sunan]
🚫 The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم warned that people will have to flee to desert to save their religion.
🚫 The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم warned that a time will come when holding onto the Deen is like holding onto a live coal.
🚫 The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم warned that a person may do good deeds and will be very near to entering Paradise, but what has been decreed will overtake him and he will start doing evil deeds and will be from the people of the Fire. [Saheehain]
🌟 Ibraaheem عليه السلام prayed for the steadfastness for himself and his sons.
🌟 The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم used to supplicate to Allaah to keep his heart steadfast upon His Deen.
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From the signs that a person is slipping are:
🔥1. He allows that which he used to forbid.
🔥2. He starts trimming or shaving his beard.
🔥3. He stops praying in the congregation.
🔥4. He starts delaying his prayers.
🔥5. He starts missing out on prayers.
🔥6. He stops doing the good deeds which he used to do regularly.
🔥7. Sisters abandoning the proper Hijab or showing their beauty or putting on perfume while going out etc.
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رَبَّنَا لَا تُزِغْ قُلُوبَنَا بَعْدَ إِذْ هَدَيْتَنَا وَهَبْ لَنَا مِن لَّدُنكَ رَحْمَةً ۚ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ الْوَهَّابُ
{“Our Lord! Let not our hearts deviate (from the Truth) after You have guided us and grant us from Yourself mercy. Indeed, You are the Bestower.”}
✏ Fahad Barmem
The difference between the words اجتنبوا (Ijtaniboo (avoid)) and اتركوا (Utrukoo (leave))
Explained by Shaikh Saaleh al-`Usaymee حفظه الله:
https://ilm4all.blogspot.com/2022/11/the-difference-between-words-ijtaniboo.html
💠The difference between the words اجتنبوا (Ijtaniboo (avoid)) and اتركوا (Utrukoo (leave))
🔒When it came to Major Sins, why did Allaah تعالى say: اجتنبوا (Ijtaniboo (avoid)), and He تعالى did not say: اتركوا (Atrukoo (leave))?
👉Examples: Allaah تعالى said:
إِن تَجْتَنِبُوا كَبَائِرَ مَا تُنْهَوْنَ عَنْهُ نُكَفِّرْ عَنكُمْ سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ وَنُدْخِلْكُم مُّدْخَلًا كَرِيمًا
{If you avoid the great sins which you are forbidden to do, We shall remit from you your (small) sins, and admit you to a Noble Entrance (i.e. Paradise).}
📚[Surah al-Nisaa (4): 31]
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِّنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ
{O you who believe! Intoxicants (all kinds of alcoholic drinks), gambling, Al-Ansaab, and Al-Azlaam (arrows for seeking luck or decision) are an abomination of Shaitaan's (Satan) handiwork. So, avoid (strictly all) that (abomination) in order that you may be successful.}
📚[Surah al-Maaidah (5): 90]
وَالَّذِينَ اجْتَنَبُوا الطَّاغُوتَ أَن يَعْبُدُوهَا وَأَنَابُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ لَهُمُ الْبُشْرَىٰ ۚ فَبَشِّرْ عِبَادِ
{Those who avoid al-Taaghoot (false deities) by not worshipping them and turn to Allaah in repentance, for them are glad tidings; so announce the good news to My slaves,}
📚[Surah al-Zumar (39): 17]
الَّذِينَ يَجْتَنِبُونَ كَبَائِرَ الْإِثْمِ وَالْفَوَاحِشَ إِلَّا اللَّمَمَ ۚ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ وَاسِعُ الْمَغْفِرَةِ
{Those who avoid great sins (see the Qur’aan, Verses: 6:152, 153) and Al-Fawaahish (illegal sexual intercourse, etc.) except the small faults, verily, your Lord is of vast forgiveness.}
📚[Surah al-Najm (53): 32]
🎓Shaikh Saaleh al-Usaymee حفظه الله:ah deals with them is: ❝1) the command to distance one from the prohibited things, 2) along with the prohibition to act upon them❞.
When it comes to prohibited things, the way the Sharee
The Sharee principle in regard to prohibited things is: “The Shareeah commands one to distance themselves from the prohibited things along with the prohibition to act upon them.”
Example: A person comes to a place where wine is served and he sits with his friends, and he says: “I do not drink wine (or any other intoxicants).”
Does the Shareeah permits him to sit in such places?ah wants to protect him! The Sharee
The answer is: No!
Why?
The Shareeah not only prohibits him from consuming intoxicants but it also commands him to keep distance from the places where it is served. Umar Ibn al-Khattaab رضي الله عنه and graded as “Saheeh li ghairihee” by Shaikh al-Albaanee in al-Irwaa (1949)]
He should not sit on a table where intoxicants are served, as has been mentioned in the authentic Ahaadeeth of the Prophet ﷺ.
📑[Translators Note:
Narrated Jaabir رضي الله عنه that the Prophet ﷺ said: ❝Whoever believes in Allaah and the Last Day, then he is not to enter the Hammam (public bathouse) without an Izar (lower garment). And whoever believes in Allaah and the Last Day, then he is not to let his wife enter the Hammam (at all). And whoever believes in Allaah and the Last Day, then he is not to sit at a tablecloth in which Khamr (alcohol) is being passed around (served).❞
📚[Sunan al-Tirmidhee (2801) and graded as “Hasan” by Shaikh al-Albaanee. The same is narrated in Musnad Ahmad (125) from the narrations of
Narrated Abdullaah Ibn Umar رضي الله عنهما: “The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ forbade two kinds of food: to sit at a tablecloth on which wine is drunk (i.e., being served), and forbade that a man should eat while he is lying on his stomach.”
📚[Sunan Abu Dawood (3774) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee. See also al-Saheehah (2394)]]
This is a beneficial principle in rectifying (and purifying) one’s Nafs (self)!
There are many people who try to distance themselves from the prohibited things by not doing them, but in reality, they do not keep themselves away from it. You would find one of them going around places where prohibited things take place and he exposes himself to these prohibited things.
Ayyoob عليه السلام suffered for eighteen years [1] from different kinds of ailments and diseases in his body, that no part of his body was intact and healthy except for his heart and tongue, with which he remembered Allaah. Yet he remained patient and a Believer in Allaah’s Mercy.
His illness continued for so long and because of the repugnant smell, his people deserted him.
Then he said the Duaa. A Duaa which does not even take a quarter of a line to write:
أَنِّي مَسَّنِيَ الضُّرُّ
{"Indeed, adversity has touched me..."}
📚[Surah al-Anbiyaa (21): 83]
Did he say: “cure me”?
No, he did not say: “cure me”, out of shyness from His Lord!
Rather, he said:
وَأَنتَ أَرْحَمُ الرَّاحِمِينَ
{"…and you are the Most Merciful of all those who show mercy."}
📚[Surah al-Anbiyaa (21): 83]
You, O Allaah, are more merciful to me than I can ever be to myself!
Do you know why he did not say to Allaah: “heal me”? Because he entrusted his affair to Allaah: “O Allaah! My Maulaa (Protector)! If you know - and You are the All-Knower of the unseen and the seen - that if I stay sick is better for me, then let me be upon this sickness. But if You know that my well-being and good health is near, then indeed, distress has seized me.”
Allaahu Akbar! How simple the wordings but how great the meaning! For Allaah تعالى responded saying:
فَاسْتَجَبْنَا لَهُ فَكَشَفْنَا مَا بِهِ مِن ضُرٍّ
{So We answered his call, and We removed the distress that had afflicted him}
📚[Surah al-Anbiyaa (21): 84]
📑Notes:
[1] Wahb Ibn Munabbih said that Ayyoob عليه السلام suffered for three years. Anas said that he suffered for seven years and some months. Humaid said that he suffered for eighteen years. [Stories of the Prophets – Ibn Katheer]
If Allaah were to take from you...
... (a thing) which you thought you would never lose.
He will soon provide for you...
... (a thing) which you thought you would never own.
We cannot solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we had used (earlier), that brought us to these problems (in the first place).
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Explanation of the Hadeeth: The Du`aa is answered in one of the three ways
https://ilm4all.blogspot.com/2022/05/explanation-of-hadeeth-duaa-is-answered.html?m=1
When you feel the tightness in your chest (due to anxiety or sorrow), then prostrate to Allaah (offer Salaah).
For there is nothing that can heal that which is inside of you except by seeking nearness to Him.
Allaah تعالى says:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَعِينُوا بِالصَّبْرِ وَالصَّلَاةِ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ مَعَ الصَّابِرِينَ
{O you who have believed, seek help through patience and prayer. Indeed, Allah is with the patient.}
📚[Surah al-Baqarah(2): 153]
March forward and do not look back. Do not let the failures of yesterday occupy (prevent) you from achieving the success today.
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Patience is not merely the ability to wait, rather, it is the ability to maintain a good attitude while waiting
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🌺 Receive the glad tidings O Believers!
Allaah تعالى said:
{لَهَا مَا كَسَبَتْ وَعَلَيْهَا مَا اكْتَسَبَتْ}
{He gets reward for that (good) which he has earned, and he is punished for that (evil) which he has earned}
📚[Surah al-Baqarah (2): 286]
❝Using the verb "Kasabat" (earned) while mentioning the good deeds is evidence that a person will earn the reward for even the minutest action he might have done, rather he will be rewarded for even the intention he had made in his heart.
While mentioning the evil deeds, the verb "Iktasabat" (earned) is used, which is evidence that the evil deed is not recorded for a person till he actually does it and strives for it.❞
📚من كتاب التفسير المحرر
إعداد القسم العلمي بمؤسسة الدرر السنية
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Narrated Ibn `Abbaas رضي الله عنهما, from the Prophet ﷺ, from what he has related from his Lord (Allaah) تبارك وتعالى: ❝Allaah ordered (the appointed angels over you) that the good and the bad deeds be written, and He تعالى then showed (the way) how (to write). If somebody intends to do a good deed and he does not do it, then Allaah will write for him a full good deed (in his account with Him); and if he intends to do a good deed and actually did it, then Allaah will write for him (in his account) with Him (its reward equal) from ten to seven hundred times to many more times: and if somebody intended to do a bad deed and he does not do it, then Allaah will write a full good deed (in his account) with Him, and if he intended to do it (a bad deed) and actually did it, then Allaah will write one bad deed (in his account) .❞
📚[Saheehain]
"Leave behind the traces (of your good deeds) after your death. Perhaps your good deeds, after your death, will (multiply )more than the good deeds (you could earn) in your lifetime."
Allaah تعالى said:
إِنَّا نَحْنُ نُحْيِي الْمَوْتَىٰ وَنَكْتُبُ مَا قَدَّمُوا وَآثَارَهُمْ
{It is We indeed who bring back the dead to life, and write down what they send ahead (of their deeds), and traces that they leave behind...}
📚[Surah Yaaseen (36): 12]
📑 Note:
{and their traces} meaning: their footsteps and walking on the earth with their legs to the Massajid for the five obligatory congregational prayers, and all other good and evil they did, and the legacy they left behind. So, Allaah will requite them for that: if it is good, then Allaah will reward them, and if it is evil, then Allaah will punish them.'
The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
(Whoever starts (or sets an example of) something good in Islaam, will have a reward for it, and a reward equal to that of everyone who does it after him, without that detracting from their reward in the slightest. Whoever starts (or sets an example of) something evil in Islaam, will bear the burden for that, and a burden equal to that of everyone who does it after him, without that detracting from their burden in the slightest.)
📚[Saheeh Muslim]
👉One of them says to you:
⚡I'm afflicted with anxiety
⚡I'm afflicted by sadness
⚡I'm afflicted by boredom
⚡I'm afflicted by confusion
⚡I'm afflicted with doubts
⚡I'm afflicted with calamities
⚡I'm afflicted by evil whispering
1️⃣ Ask him: "Do you regularly recite the Qur'aan?"
🔥He will say: "No"
2️⃣ Ask him: "Do you regularly do the morning and evening Adhkaar and before sleeping?"
🔥He will say: "No"
Then, this is natural that you will be afflicted by all this, rather with even more.
For Allaah تعالى says:
أَلَا بِذِكْرِ اللَّـهِ تَطْمَئِنُّ الْقُلُوبُ
{Verily in the remembrance of Allaah do hearts find rest!}
📚[Surah al-Ra`d (13):28]
⚡ The Kuffaar become desperate, go into depression, and commit suicide because they have no true God to rely on, nor do they have Salaah and Adhkaar with which to calm their hearts. All the materialistic gains only provide them with a temporary relief. It is not even a relief in real sense, rather a distraction from their troubles, it just diverts their mind temporarily. Like how intoxicated people lose their senses temporarily. But when they come back to their sense the reality hit them back again.
Our victory is in the Worship of Allaah about which we are reminded five times a day, everyday.
💠 The importance of Sabr to Imaan
🎓Alee Ibn Abee Taalib رضي الله عنه said: Alee رضي الله عنه, saying:
❝Verily! The relationship of Sabr (patience) with Imaan (Faith) is like how the status (or importance)of the head is to the body.❞
Then he raised his voice and said:
❝Verily! There is no Imaan (Faith) for him who does not have Sabr (patience).❞
📚[Al-Sabr of Ibn Abee al-Dunyaa (1/24)]
📑Note:
Shaikh Saaleh al-Fawzaan حفظه الله commented on the saying of
❝Indeed, the one who does not have Sabr, cannot be firm upon Imaan. Imaan requires that a person carries out the Commands of Allaah, and is obedient to Him, (and that he shuns that which Allaah has prohibited) (and this is not possible except through Sabr). So, he who is not firm upon this, he has no share of Imaan.❞
📚[from the Q&A on YouTube]
💠Obligation of Paying Zakaah on the Money Lent to a Debtor, and the Merit of Giving Respite to the Insolvent
🔒QUESTION: Do I have to pay Zakaah on the money lent to one of the brothers? Is there a specific time for paying Zakaah?
🎓SHAIKH IBN BAAZ رحمه الله: If the money is lent to a person who is rich and is capable of repaying it when asked, then you should pay Zakaah on this money when a (lunar) year has passed; as if this money was with you, or it is to be considered as a trust with the debtor, or as if it was kept in a safe (or a locker) with you, on which you have to pay Zakaah.
On the other hand, if the debtor is insolvent, is undergoing difficulty and unable to repay the debt, or he is capable of repaying but is (unnecessarily) delaying the repayment, and there is no means to get it from him, then in such cases the Zakaah should not be paid according to the most correct opinion of the scholars: “he is not obliged to pay the Zakaah till he recovers his money from the one who is insolvent or the one who has been delaying the repayment”.
If the money has been recovered, and one (lunar) year has passed from the date of recovery, then it is obligatory to pay Zakaah on it. Furthermore, there is no harm if he pays the Zakaah for the previous year – while the money was still with the insolvent or with the one who was delaying the repayment. This is the view of some of the scholars as well.
Yet, the recommended view is that Zakaah is obligatory only when the load has been recovered from the debtor, and a (lunar) year has passed from the date of repayment.
📚[Shaikh Ibn Baaz, Majmoo Fataawa (14/43-44)]ood رضي الله عنه reported that Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ said: ❝A person from the people who lived before you was called to account (by Allaah on the Day of Judgment) and no good was found in his account except this that he being a rich man had (financial) dealings with people and had commanded his servants to show leniency to those who are insolvent. Upon this Allaah عز وجل said (to the Angels): {We have more right to this, so overlook (his faults)}.❞
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📑Notes:
Scenario 1️⃣: If a person has 10,000 Riyals on 1st Muharram 1443H, and he lends this amount in Rajab (the 7th month) and recovers it in Shawwal (10th month), then by 1st Muharram 1444H (i.e., by next year), it is obligatory for him to pay the Zakaah.
Scenario 2️⃣: If a person has 10,000 Riyals on 1st Muharram 1443H, and he lends this amount in Rajab (the 7th month), and 1st Muharram 1444H passes by (i.e., a year has been completed) and he is optimistic that the money will be recovered, then it is obligatory for him to pay the Zakaah even if the money has not been recovered yet.
Scenario 3️⃣: If a person lends the money and he is optimistic that he will recover the amount, then he pays Zakaah when a lunar year is completed. (Sometimes, the lender does not request the debtor for the repayment out of shyness or he wants to give him more time). But if the chance of recovery is less because the debtor has become insolvent or that he is delaying or doesn’t want to pay, then in such a scenario, Zakaah is to be paid only after the amount has been recovered.
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⚡️ AHAADEETH:
# 1️⃣
Hudhaifah رضي الله عنه said that the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ said: ❝From among the people preceding your generation, there was a man whom the angel of death visited to capture his soul. (So, his soul was captured) and he was asked if he had done any good deed. He replied: “I don't remember any good deed.” He was asked to think it over. He said: “I do not remember, except that I used to trade with the people in the world and I used to give a respite to the rich and forgive the poor (among my debtors).” So, Allaah made him enter Paradise (because of his action).❞
📚[Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (3451) and Saheeh Muslim (1560)]
# 2️⃣
Abu Mas
📚[Saheeh Muslim (1561)]
The World Jinn
https://ilm4all.blogspot.com/2010/08/world-of-jinn.html?m=1
Soon it may happen that he gets trapped in one of the traps set by the callers to (or the doers of) these prohibited things.
Example: you will find people following websites and channels on the internet (and social media) which raise doubts (about the Deen and try to confuse the people). They say: “Alhamdulillaah! We do not believe in such things! (Or such things do not affect us!)”.
But (do you not realize that) these things leave a mark and linger in the heart, then how will you protect yourselves from them? The Shareeah prohibits you from this (i.e., exposing yourself to evil and the prohibited things).ah (the religious innovators).
📑[Translators Note:
The Khlaeel of Allaah, Ibraaheem عليه السلام supplicated, saying:
وَإِذْ قَالَ إِبْرَاهِيمُ رَبِّ اجْعَلْ هَٰذَا الْبَلَدَ آمِنًا وَاجْنُبْنِي وَبَنِيَّ أَن نَّعْبُدَ الْأَصْنَامَ * رَبِّ إِنَّهُنَّ أَضْلَلْنَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ النَّاسِ
{And (remember) when Ibraheem said: “O my Lord! Make this city (Makkah) (a place) of peace and security; and keep me and my sons away from worshipping idols. O my Lord! They have indeed led astray many among mankind…”}
📚[Surah Ibraaheem (14): 35-36]
Not only did Ibraheem عليه السلام seek Allaah’s protection from ever worshiping the idols, but he also said:
وَاجْنُبْنِى وَبَنِىَّ أَن نَّعْبُدَ الاٌّصْنَام
{(O Allaah!) …and keep me and my sons AWAY from worshipping idols}
He sought Allaah’s help from ever coming closer to them (or places where they are worshiped), even though he was the one who broke the idols.]
This is why the Salaf (the pious predecessors) had written extensively, warning from listening to (or reading) the statements of Ahl al-Bid
Why?!
Imaam al-Dhahabee رحمه الله mentioned a very beautiful statement. He said: “because the hearts are weak, and the doubts cling to them like a hook!”
📚[Siyar Alaam al-Nubalaa (7/261)ah came with the prohibition from doing a forbidden thing along with the command to distance oneself away from it.
The hearts are weak, and a doubt pierces the heart and clings on to it.
Similar to this is exposing oneself to Shahwah (desires, lust). So, as long as a man – in following his desires – comes closer to things which are prohibited, like watching porn, or attending places where prohibited food and drinks are served, then he has exposed himself to evil!
This is why the Sharee
This is why one would find in the Shareeah (Kitaab and Sunnah) different ways in which we have been addressed to stay away from evil things, example اجتنبوا Ijtaniboo (avoid), ولا تقربوا wa laa taqraboo (do not come near). Such statements not only confirm that these things are prohibited, but they also emphasize and command you to stay away (and maintain distance and not expose yourself) to the things which have been made forbidden.aam (6): 151]
📑[Translators Note:
Allaah تعالى said:
وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا الْفَوَاحِشَ مَا ظَهَرَ مِنْهَا وَمَا بَطَنَ
{Come not near to Al-Fawaahish (shameful sins, illegal sexual intercourse, etc.) whether committed openly or secretly}
📚[Surah al-An
And He تعالى also said:
وَلَا تَقْرَبُوا مَالَ الْيَتِيمِ إِلَّا بِالَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ حَتَّىٰ يَبْلُغَ أَشُدَّهُ
{And come not near to the orphan’s property, except to improve it, until he (or she) attains the age of full strength}
📚[Surah al-Anaam (6): 152]]Usaymee’s lecture while explaining Kitaab al-Tawheed]
📚[From Shaikh Saaleh al-
🔗Link: https://youtu.be/fzp6fOnJaQ4
💠The Chapter on Sutrah (Screen)
👉Brief Comments of Shaikh Ibn Baaz on Saheeh al-Bukhaaree #16
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Contemplate:
For a Muslim, the purpose of all his actions should be for attaining the Aakhirah (the Hereafter). This should be the purpose – the worship of Allaah, the pleasure of Allaah, the Jannah (Paradise), the protection from the punishment of the grave and the Jahannam (Hellfire).
For how long do we live in this Dunya?! How many years?! 50 years? 60? 70? 100? How long is that as compared to the life of the Barzakh?! And how long is that as compared to the life of the Hereafter?!
Example: Nooh عليه السلام spent 950 years of his life in calling people towards Allaah. Compare that to how many thousands of years he is living in the life of Barzakh?!
Another example: We are in the year 1440H. Uthmaan Ibn Affaan رضي الله عنه was assassinated near the end of the year 35H. How many years have passed since then? For how many years has he been in the grave? More than 1,400 (one thousand four hundred) years!
1,400 YEARS OF LIFE IN THE BARZAKH!
Till when will he be in the grave?! Another 100 years?! Another 1,000 years?! Only Allaah knows when the Hour will be established.
This life - in the Barzakh (in the grave) - of 1,000 years or 2,000 years, or as much as Allaah Wills! Does it not deserve that we work for it so that we are blessed in it?!
This life of 50, 60 or 70 years which we live, deduct from it the many years that go in childhood! Deduct from it the many years that go in sleeping! Deduct from it the years that go in sickness! Deduct from it the many years that go in old age and senility! How much of it is left?!
Then comes the Hereafter! The Eternal life! The life with no end! The life with no death – either in the Jannah or in the Jahannam! May Allaah make us of the people of Paradise and may He protect us from the punishment of the Hellfire!
So we want to abandon the life of the Hereafter for the life of this world?! We want to gain the life of this fleeting world at the price of the Hereafter?! What’s wrong with us?!
📖 Allaah تعالى said:
يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ
{O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another. Verily, the most honourable of you with Allaah is that (believer) who has al-Taqwa. Verily, Allaah is All-Knowing, All-Aware.}
📚[Surah al-Hujooraat (49): 13]
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And the Prophet ﷺ said:
❝And whoever is slowed down by his actions (i.e. bad deeds), will not be hastened forward by his lineage.❞
📚[Saheeh Muslim]
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And the poet said:
❝Upon you is to have Taqwa (God-consciousness) at all times...
...So, do not abandon Taqwa by relying on your Nasab. [1]
For, through Islaam the rank of Salmaan - even though he was a Persian - was raised high...
...while because of (his) Kufr, the kinship (with the Prophet ﷺ) did not benefit Abu Lahb.❞
[1] Nasab: lineage, ancestry, kinship
How civilizations are destroyed?
In our age, three means are being utilized to bring the downfall of the Ummah.
1. Attacking the family structure.
2. Attacking the education.
3. Replacing the role models.
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🌟1. Attacking the family structure:
In order to attack the family structure they are clouding the role and the importance of motherhood in the upbringing and welfare of the family. Making the woman feel ashamed of her role as a housewife and a caretaker.
Whereas the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
《...a woman is the Guardian of her husband's house and is responsible for it...》 [Saheehain]
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🌟2. Attacking the education:
In order to corrupt the education, they are attacking the teachers; not giving them importance in the society, and lowering them from their status to the extent that even the students look down upon them.
Whoever mocks the teacher has mocked the knowledge that the teacher has.
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🌟3. Replacing the role models:
In order to overthrow the role models (the Salaf), they are attacking the scholars; speaking bad about them; disrespecting and dishonoring them; creating doubts about them so that no one is there who listens to them or follows them.
The situation is so bad that many people cannot distinguish between a scholar and a celebrity speaker. Whereas the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
《The scholars are the heirs of the Prophets, for the Prophets did not leave behind Dinar or Dirham, rather they left behind knowledge, so whoever takes it has taken a great share.》
📚[Sunan Abu Dawood, Sunan al-Tirmidhee, and Sunan Ibn Maajah]
❌️ We complain that we have prayed and supplicated to Allaah exhaustively yet our prayers were not answered.
✔️ While we forget that had we not prayed or supplicated to Allaah, the problems we are facing could have been even worse.
Allaah تعالى said:
وَمَا أَصَابَكُم مِّن مُّصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَن كَثِيرٍ
{And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned; but He pardons much.}
📚[Surah al-Shooraa (42):30]
Abu Sa`eed al-Khudree رضي الله عنه narrated that the Prophet ﷺ said: ❝There is no Muslim who offers a supplication in which there is no sin or severing of ties of kinship, but Allaah will give him one of three things in return for it: either He will hasten for him what he asked for, or He will store it [the reward for it] up for him in the Hereafter, or He will avert from him an equivalent evil.❞ They (the Companions) said: “Then we will supplicate a lot”. He ﷺ said: ❝Allaah is more generous.❞
📚 [Al-Adab al-Mufrad of al-Imaam al-Bukhaaree (710) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee. Musnad Ahmad (11133) and graded as “Hasan-Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee in Saheeh al-Targheeb (1633). Similar has been reported from Abu Hurairah Al-Adab al-Mufrad (711)
Are human beings the most honored ones among the creation?!
If someone says: Is the virtue of the children of Aadam, in general, above the rest of the creation?
We (Ibn al-`Uthaymeen) say: No! because Allaah تعالى said:
{And indeed We have honored the Children of Adam, and We have carried them on land and sea, and have provided them with At-Taiyibat (lawful good things), and have preferred them above many of those whom We have created with a marked preference.} [Surah al-Israa (17): 70]
He تعالى did not say: “Above everything We have created”!
Such generalized statements* should be confined to what has been mentioned in the Texts (the Qur’aan and the Sunnah) only, and a person should not exceed the limits.
[Liqaa al-Baab al-Maftooh (53/12)]
*using terms like "Ashraf al-Makhlooqaat"
Verily, a smile does not cost a thing, but it means a lot.
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Woe to bad companionship!
يَا وَيْلَتَىٰ لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا * لَّقَدْ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءَنِي ۗ وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِلْإِنسَانِ خَذُولًا
{"Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend! "He indeed led me astray from the Reminder (this Qur’aan) after it had come to me. And Shaitaan is ever a deserter to man in the hour of need.”}
📚 [Surah al-Furqaan (25): 28-29]
Maalik Ibn Deenaar رحمه الله said:
❝That you transport stones (on your shoulders) along with the Abraar (righteous/obedient) is better for you than you eating sweets in the company of the Fujjaar (wicked/disobedient).❞
📚 [Tafseer al-Qurtobee (13/27)]
✏ Fahad Barmem
⚡️❝Do not fear death...
...but fear the lifeless living❞
💠The similitude of the living and the dead:
They breathe but they are still dead.
They see but are still blind.
They Hear but are still deaf.
They speak but are still dumb.
Abu Moosaa Al-Ash`aree (May Allaah be pleased with him) reported that the Prophet ﷺ said:
❝The similitude of one who remembers his Rabb and one who does not remember Him, is like that of the living and the dead.❞
📚 [Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (6407) and the wordings are his and Saheeh Muslim (779)]
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Ibn al-Jawzee said:
❝ The dead is not the one whose soul has left from the sides (of his body), rather the dead is the one who does not understand the rights of his Lord (upon him).❞
📚 [التذكرة في الوعظ 1/18]
💠 Part of perfection in acts of Ibaadah is to remain firm and constant during hardship and ease.Ibaadah, otherwise, many nations have perished because of their ingratitude towards Allaah.
💠 Fewer acts done with consistency are better than doing many acts and then abandoning them for days and weeks.
💠 If a person wants his prayers to be answered during calamities, then he should beseech Allaah much during times of ease.
💠 Being grateful to Allaah for His favors is the essence of
💠 Being ungrateful for Allaah's favors is the first step towards Kufr.
💠 Sweetness of Ibaadah is felt when a person worships Allaah during the times of ease and is grateful to Allaah for His bounties, else, during a calamity even the Mushriks used to turn to Allaah alone for help - out of desperation.Ibaadah is like a cure. So, anyone who doesn't worship Allaah during a calamity is like a person who refuses to take medicine during his illness.
💠 When Allaah removes a calamity, people become ungrateful, as if no calamity had ever touched them.
💠 If a person finds it difficult to worship Allaah during a calamity, then that is because he did not train himself when he was healthy, wealth,and wise.
💠 Calamities are like diseases, and
💠 When a calamity befalls a Believer, it acts as a wake up call and as a reminder to him to turn to Allaah in repentance and obedience. So, calamities are indeed a mercy for the Believers which expiate their sins.
💠 Calamity is not only when Allaah takes away His favors, rather, the worse calamity is when Allaah bestows His favors while the people are still being ungrateful, because that is a sign that their destruction is near.
Allaah تعالى says:
وَلَئِنْ أَذَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ مِنَّا رَحْمَةً ثُمَّ نَزَعْنَاهَا مِنْهُ إِنَّهُ لَيَئُوسٌ كَفُورٌ ﴿٩﴾ وَلَئِنْ أَذَقْنَاهُ نَعْمَاءَ بَعْدَ ضَرَّاءَ مَسَّتْهُ لَيَقُولَنَّ ذَهَبَ السَّيِّئَاتُ عَنِّي ۚ إِنَّهُ لَفَرِحٌ فَخُورٌ ﴿١٠﴾ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ صَبَرُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَٰئِكَ لَهُم مَّغْفِرَةٌ وَأَجْرٌ كَبِيرٌ ﴿١١﴾
{And if We give man a taste of mercy from Us and then We withdraw it from him, indeed, he is despairing and ungrateful.
But if We give him a taste of favor after hardship has touched him, he will surely say: "Bad times have left me." Indeed, he is exultant and boastful -
Except for those who are patient and do righteous deeds; those will have forgiveness and great reward.}
📚[Surah Hood (11): 9-11]
💠Where the laws of physics don’t apply: The lower you go, the higher you get:
بسم الله والحمد لله والصلاة والسلام على رسول الله ، وبعد
👉Thaubaan رضي الله عنه, the freed slave of Allaah’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said that the Allaah’s Messenger صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Make frequent prostrations before Allaah, for you will not perform one prostration to Allaah, except Allaah will raise you one degree in status thereby, and remove one sin from you, because of it.”
📚[Saheeh Muslim (488), Sunan Ibn Maajah (1423) and Sunan al-Nasaa’ee (1139)]
👉Abu Faatimah رضي الله عنه said: The Messenger of Allaah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “O Abu Faatimah! Make lot of prostrations, for no Muslim prostrates to Allaah تعالى but He تعالى will raise him in status one degree thereby.”
📚[Musnad Ahmad (15527, 15528) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee in al-Saheehah (1519)]
👉Abu Faatimah رضي الله عنه reported: I said: O Messenger of Allaah! Tell me of a deed that I can adhere to and act upon. He صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Upon you is prostration, for you will not prostrate to Allaah but He تعالى will raise you in status one degree thereby and erase from you one sin.”
📚[Sunan Ibn Maajah (1422) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]
👉`Ubaadah bin Saamit رضي الله عنه said that he heard the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم saying: “No one prostrates to Allaah تعالى except that Allaah تعالى will record for him one good deed and thereby will erase one bad deed and raise him in status one degree. So prostrate a great deal.”
📚[Sunan Ibn Maajah (1424) and graded as “Saheeh” by Shaikh al-Albaanee]
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Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه reported Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ as saying: ❝There was a person who gave loans to the people and said to his men: “When an insolvent comes to you show him leniency that Allaah may overlook our (faults). So, when he met Allaah, He overlooked his faults (and forgave him).❞
📚[Saheeh Muslim (1562)]
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Abdullaah Ibn Abu Qataadah reported that Abu Qataadah رضي الله عنه demanded (the payment of his debt) from his debtor but the debtor disappeared; later on he found him and the debtor said: “I am facing financial difficulties”, whereupon Abu Qataadah said: “(Do you state it) by Allaah?” He said: “By Allaah!”. Upon this he (Abu Qataadah) said: I heard Allaah's Messenger ﷺ as saying: ❝He who loves that Allaah saves him from the torments of the Day of Resurrection should give respite to the insolvent or remit (his debt).❞
📚[Saheeh Muslim (1563)]
💠 The superiority of Ibaadah during the times of Fitan (Part 2)Abdul-`Azeez al-Sad-haan
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