ALLĀH IS THE PROTECTOR OF THE RIGHTEOUS

ALLĀH said,

إِنَّ وَلِيِّـيَ اللّهُ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ الْكِتَابَ وَهُوَ يَتَوَلَّى الصَّالِحِينَ

Verily, my protector is ALLĀH Who has revealed the Book (the Qur'an), and HE protects the righteous.

ALLAH'S support is sufficient and HE will suffice for me, HE is My supporter, I trust in HIM and take refuge with HIM. HE is my protector, in this life and the Hereafter, and the protector of every righteous believer after me.

Similarly, the people of Hud said,

إِن نَّقُولُ إِلاَّ اعْتَرَاكَ بَعْضُ ءَالِهَتِنَا بِسُوءٍ

"All that we say is that some of our gods have seized you with evil (madness)."

قَالَ إِنِّى أُشْهِدُ اللَّهِ وَاشْهَدُواْ أَنِّى بَرِىءٌ مِّمَّا تُشْرِكُونَ مِن دُونِهِ فَكِيدُونِى جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ لَا تُنظِرُونِ إِنِّى تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللَّهِ رَبِّى وَرَبِّكُمْ مَّا مِن دَابَّةٍ إِلاَّ هُوَ ءاخِذٌ بِنَاصِيَتِهَأ إِنَّ رَبِّى عَلَى صِرَطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ

Hud replied: "I call ALLĀH to witness, and bear you witness that I am free from that which you ascribe (as partners in worship, with HIM (ALLĀH)). So plot against me, all of you, and give me no respite. I put my trust in ALLĀH, my Lord and your Lord! There is not a moving (living) creature but HE has the grasp of its forelock. Verily, my Lord is on a path that is straight. {Hud: Verse 54-56}

{Tafsi‌r Ibn Kathīr}

#Ibnkathir #Araf (7:196)

Advice for those who are going through financial struggles.

1. Don't worry much about how hard your financial situation is rather understand that you are asking from Allah the One and Only One who has access to unlimited resources and the one who if he gives you everything in this world it still doesn't take away anything from him majesty and he can give the same to every single person.

2. Always make this dua

اللّهُـمَّ إِنِّي أَعْوذُ بِكَ مِنَ الهَـمِّ وَ الْحُـزْنِ، والعًجْـزِ والكَسَلِ والبُخْـلِ والجُـبْنِ، وضَلَـعِ الـدَّيْنِ وغَلَبَـةِ الرِّجال

Allaahumma 'innee 'a'oothu bika minal-hammi walhazani, wal'ajzi walkasali, walbukhli waljubni, wa dhala'id-dayni wa ghalabatir-rijaali .

O Allah , I seek refuge in You from grief and sadness, from weakness and from laziness, from miserliness and from cowardice, from | being overcome by debt and from being overpowered by men.

3. Hustle the halal way. Make use of your free time to find halal ways of earning. Starting small is better than not starting at all. Restrict your lifestyle to avoid any unnecessary spending.

4. Don't take financial advices from those who want to charge you for their advice or course. Don't take advice from people who haven't achieved financial freedom. Most people who flaunt wealth are drowning in debts. So don't get carried away by the glitter.

5. Understand that wealth is not the end goal and just a means to earn more good deeds. So even after all your attempts you fail then know that it's what's best for you to enter Jannah.

6. Spend in Allah's way when you don't have. Everyone spends when they have. Remember Allah sees and knows everything you do.

7. Give up sins. Sins are one of the major reasons why there is no barakah in your wealth.

Advice of Sufyān Al-Thawrī (رحمه الله) to ʿAlī Ibn Al-Ḥasan As-Sulamī:

Your companion should be the one who prevents you from being preoccupied with things of the worldly life that will divert you from Allāh, and one who makes you desire and work for the Hereafter.

Beware of accompanying people who make the dunyah their goal, those who are engrossed in speaking about the worldly life; indeed they will corrupt your religion and your heart.

Remember death much, and seek a lot of forgiveness from what has passed of your sins, and ask Allāh for safety for what remains of your life.

[Hilyatul Awliyaa Vol. 7 Pg. 82]

| Translation: Salafi Centre Manchester |

How can one avoid something when he does not know what he is avoiding?"

Narrated Hudhaifa bin Al-Yaman:

The people used to ask Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) about good, but I used to ask him about evil for fear that it might overtake me...[Bukhari 3606]

Using only the right hand for doing the Tasbeeh:

Shaikh Naaser-uddeen Al-Albaanee رحنه الله said:

❝So whoever does the Tasbeeh (Adhkaar) using the left hand (for counting) has disobeyed (and opposed the Sunnah); and whoever does the Tasbeeh using both hands (for counting), as is done by lots of people, then {they have mixed a deed that was righteous with another that was evil. Perhaps Allaah will turn to them in forgiveness}**; and whoever limits it to using only the right hand (for counting), then he has been guided and has followed the Sunnah of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم.❞

🔎[Saheeh al-Adab al-Mufrad pg. 471]

**[Surah al-Tawbah (9): 102]

Shaykh Al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said,

"There are three things that push the hearts towards Allah, and they are love, fear and hope. The strongest of these three is love."

[Majmu al-Fatawa, v. 1, pp. 109-110]

LOVE THIS ANALOGY

You're holding a cup of coffee and someone accidentally bumps into you, causing it to spill everywhere.

Why did you spill the coffee?

"Because someone bumped into me."

Wrong answer.

You spilled the coffee because there was coffee in your cup. If there had been tea in the cup, you would have spilled tea.

Whatever is inside the cup is what will spill out.

So, when life shakes you up, whatever is inside you will come out.

It's easy to pretend everything's fine until you're shaken.

So, we have to ask ourselves, "What's in my cup?"

When life gets tough, what spills over? Joy? Gratitude? Peace? Humility? Anger? Bitterness? A victim mentality? A tendency to quit?

Rember LIFE gives you the cup; YOU choose what to fill it with.

Eating too much meat.

✒ Inna Akramakum ʿIndallāhi Atqaakum

Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallāhu-ʿAlaihi Wa Sallam said to Abū Dharr Raḍi-Allāhu ʿAnhu:

انظر فإنك لست بخير من أحمر ولا أسود إلا أن تفضله بتقوى

“Look!! For indeed you are NOT better than a red (i.e a white person) or a black (person) except that (if) you are superior to him in righteousness (Taqwā).”

● [مختصر صحيح الجامع الصغير برقم ١٥٠٥ ، حسنه الألباني]

Sayyiduna Anas (radiyallahu’anhu) reports that Rasulullah (sallallahu’alayhi wasallam) said:

🔴Poverty almost leads to disbelief.🔴

(Musnad Ahmad ibn Mani’, Al-Mu’jamul Awsat, Hadith: 4056, Shu’abul Iman of Bayhaqi, Hadith: 6188 and others. See Ithaful khiyarah, Hadith: 7247 and Al-Maqasidul Hasanah, Hadith: 789

“Perform many good deeds and Allāh will make you feel happy and at ease in your grave. Stay away from all prohibited deeds and thus will you taste the sweetness of Īmān. Sit in the company of righteous and pious people and Allāh will make well for you the affairs of your religion. And in the affairs of your religion, consult those who fear Allāh. Hasten to perform good deeds and Allāh will protect you from disobeying Him.

Remember Allāh frequently and as a result, Allāh will make you less desirous of this world (and its pleasures and possessions). Remember death and as a result, Allāh will make your worldly affairs easier for you. Yearn for Paradise and as a result, Allāh will help you obey Him. Be frightened by the Hellfire and as a result, Allāh will make it easier for you to endure the hardships of this life.”

— Refer to “The Biography of Sufyān ath-Thawrī” (pp. 176-181).

The Prophet ﷺ said, “Men will appear near the end of time who seek the worldly life with religion, confusing the people. Their skin is as soft as sheep, their words are sweeter than sugar, yet their hearts are like the hearts of wolves.”

‎Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 2404

‎Grade: Hasan (fair) according to Ibn Hajar

عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ قَالَ يَخْرُجُ فِي آخِرِ الزَّمَانِ رِجَالٌ يَخْتِلُونَ الدُّنْيَا بِالدِّينِ يَلْبَسُونَ لِلنَّاسِ جُلُودَ الضَّأْنِ مِنْ اللِّينِ أَلْسِنَتُهُمْ أَحْلَى مِنْ السُّكَّرِ وَقُلُوبُهُمْ قُلُوبُ الذِّئَابِ

2404 سنن الترمذي كتاب الزهد باب ما جاء في ذهاب البصر

5/63 المحدث ابن حجر العسقلاني خلاصة حكم المحدث حسن في هداية الرواة

*MULTIPLE INTENTIONS (Niyyah) in Islam*

A) Intention to please Allah alone while doing a single action.
B) Dual Intentions behind a single action, to please Allah and please others.
C) Dual Intentions behind a single action, to please Allah and achieve some wordly benefits.
D) Multiple intentions behind a single action.

Not all dual/ multiple intentions are by default "Riyaa" (Shirk).

Scholars has differentiated this in two ways.

1) Riyaa
2) Tashreek fin Niyyah

While the (B) is Shirk with Allah called "Riyaa" , (C) is not always problematic.

There are many types of (C) that are allowed in Islam, some of them like :

1) Trading / Buying or Selling during Hajj. (Allowed by Allah)

2) Giving a sacrifice 🐐 or charity to please Allah and also intending to avert evil. (Allowed)

3) Fasting for reward from Allah and also intending to loose weight. (Allowed)

4) Learning in an Islamic University to spread Islamic knowledge and even intending to get wordly credentials /degrees like Masters/ Doctorates (having an equivalent wordly value). - (Allowed)

5) Fighting for Allah but also to achieve war booty. (Allowed)

The sahaba used to wonder, how could a person do worship and at the same time earn wordly benefits in Hajj. So Allah revealed the verse :

{ لَيْسَ عَلَيْكُمْ جُنَاحٌ أَن تَبْتَغُواْ فَضْلًا مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ }

Also, the Mujahid who fought for Allah wants to fight against injustice on earth and also can intends to collect wordly rewards as allowed by Muhammad ﷺ when he encouragingly said to his companions

"من قتل قتيلًا له عليه بينة فله سلبه" - صحيح البخاري

"Anyone who has killed an enemy and has a proof of that, will posses his spoils."

𝑰𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 ::

1) Worship of Allah plus intending some wordly gains for yourself (allowed in some cases)

2) Worship of Allah intending to please others as well is always Shirk and the worst of sins.

May Allah help us.

SCARY!

What do you use the blessings of Allāh for?

What do you use your eyes to see?
What do you use your ears to listen?

Where do you go with your legs ?
What do you use your tongue for?

What do you use your phone for?
What do you occupy your time in?

How do you earn your money? Is it purely in a manner Allāh is pleased with? You don’t use tabarruj, deception and music in your business?

What do you use your money to buy ? Is it something that brings you closer to Allāh?

How do you capitalize on all the blessings you have? In His obedience or in His disobedience?

الله المستعان

Will your blessings lead you to the pleasure of Allāh or to your destruction?
Are they blessings in reality or punishment in disguise?

May Allāh protect us from Al-Istidrāj.

#reminder | #hajj
If you want to perform Hajj as the midday temperature is in the thirty degrees wait until the year 1458h, as the Hajj from 1458h to 1461h will coincide with the coldest months of ⁧ Makkah (January and December)

Dhikr is the perfect antidote to loneliness. In a ḥadīth qudsī, Allah says, “I am with My servant when he remembers Me” (Ibn Mājah).

Eat, Give Charity, And Clothe Yourselves...

📌Every blessing that does not bring you closer to Allah is indeed a "Calamity". Subhanallah

May Allah subhaanahu wata'ala aid us 🤲

https://x.com/taqwatravels/status/1268656846535000064?s=46&t=GMgr_IKXrdXPxHyiJohmaQ

~ Oh how I wish I lived during the time of the Messenger ﷺ ~ ???

No, you're wrong to say that, Allāh chose for you the best possible time to exist, a time in which He knows you have the potential to be from among His allies.

If you and I lived during the time of the Messenger ﷺ, most likely we would not have endured the pressure and may have in fact failed to remain upon our belief.

Don't question Allāh's Decree and Wisdom, never do that, instead, praise Him and show gratitude to Him by being a good slave. Remember Him in your heart, on your tongue, and with your overall physicals acts of worship and exert yourself.

Remain positive and have good thoughts of Allāh, as He does not oppress anyone. Allāh perfectly placed everything in its proper place, including your existence and mine. He is Just.

Today, you and I have an opportunity to excel and reach the highest ranks of Paradise, and this won't happen with wishing for a hypothetical, rather, an impossible situation. This won't be achieved with wishful thinking, that is for the weak-minded.

Instead, pray to Allāh that you will be near the Messenger ﷺ in Paradise, that is the correct Du‘ā’, and strive hard to make it happen.

"If you take a hundred black ants and a hundred red ants and put them in a glass jar, you will notice that they will just go about following their normal routine.

But if you picked that jar up, shook it hard, and then put it back on the table, the ants will start killing each other.

The red ant will think that the black ant is its enemy, whereas the black one will think the red ant is its enemy, whilst the truth is that the person who shook the jar is their real enemy.

قبل أن نختلف ونتخاصم يجب أن نسأل أنفسنا: من هز الوعاء
Before we argue and start fighting with each other, we must ask ourselves this question: "Who shook the jar?"

The Man who Killed 100 People vis-à-vis a Man of Knowledge

We all know the famous narration about that man from the Children of Israel who killed 99 people. This man went to get advice about repenting from his crimes from a man who was known to be an avid worshiper of Allāh.

The worshiper, who was so deep in his worship, could not fathom how Allāh would forgive such a mass murder, so he answered the killer of 99 people by telling him that there is no repentance for him. So the man, being used to killing, and getting such an answer, killed the avid worshiper to make the number 100.

Lessons so far:

1. Giving a verdict without knowledge can go as far as causing loss of life, not just ruining families or loss or religion, among others.

2. The man's devoutness to worshiping Allāh is not enough for him to give verdicts. Without knowledge, worship is not as valuable. Worshiping Allāh should be done with knowledge and proper insight.

3. One's acts of worship should not cause him to doubt that Allāh will forgive even the worst of sins. He should not let his acts of worship blind him to the fact that Allāh forgives any sin as long as one is alive, and any sin except Shirk or Kufr if one dies with other sins, even major ones.

Moving on...

The killer of 100 went to a man of knowledge and asked him the same question about repentance. The man of knowledge told him that nobody is standing between him and his repentance to Allāh, and that he must migrate and abandon the bad town in which he was living and move to a good town instead.

More lessons:

4. One who is looking to change his life around should abandon evil places and evil people. The overall environment and the people have a major impact on an individual.

5. The man with knowledge gave the correct advice, indeed, it is not surprising to assume that the man of knowledge was also an avid worshiper of Allāh, and even if he was not as avid as the one without knowledge, the man of knowledge still has more fear of Allāh because he has that knowledge.

Moving on...

On the way, the killer of 100 died, and the angels of mercy disputed with the angels of torment about who should take his soul. Allāh sent an angel to settle the dispute and told them to measure the distance which the man travelled before dying, and that if he was closer to the good town, that the angels of mercy would take his soul. Allāh caused the landscape to change so that the distance between the man and the good town is shorter.

Final lessons:

6. Allāh will make a way out for you if your sincere, no matter how evil you think you are, no matter what evil actions you have done, if you feel really bad about those deeds and feel a darkness in your heart, that is because your heart had light in it to begin with, otherwise, you would not have such a great feeling of sorrow for your bad deeds. No matter how great are your evil deeds, Allāh is greater and will forgive you.

7. Never give up hope in Allāh's mercy and forgiveness.

May Allāh grant us wisdom and insight and keep us steadfast on His straight path.