It is Sunnah to accept gifts, while refraining from asking for favours and begging.

The Mother of the Believers, Aishah (may Allah be pleased with her), said that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would accept gifts and give something in return [Reported by Bukhari]

At the same time, the Prophet ﷺ would strongly advise against asking for favours and begging.

Thawban (may Allah be pleased with him) reported that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said: "If anyone guarantees me that they will not ask people for anything, I will guarantee them Jannah.” [Reported by Abu Dawud and Tirmidhi]

The Prophet (ﷺ) also said: "(True) wealth does not lie in the abundance of (worldly) possession, rather it lies in feeling self-sufficient/ being content." [Reported by Bukhari and Muslim]

Al-Imām ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“The truthful one awaits the relief [from hardship] and does not despair from the Mercy of Allāh.”

Madārij As-Sālikeen 3/122 | ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله

Translation: Authentic Quotes

📖 Ibn Umar RadhiAllahu 'anhuma narrated: Allah's noble Messenger Muhammad SallAllahu 'alaihi wa sallam said, "The most beloved people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to the people. The most beloved deed to Allah is to make a Muslim happy, or to remove one of his troubles, or to forgive his debt, or to feed his hunger. That I walk with a brother regarding a need is more beloved to me than that I seclude myself in this Masjid in Madinah for a month. Whoever swallows his anger, then Allah will conceal his faults. Whoever suppresses his rage, even though he could fulfill his anger if he wished, then Allah will secure his heart on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever walks with his brother regarding a need until he secures it for him, then Allah the Almighty will make his footing firm across the bridge on the day when the footings are shaken."
Source: Al-Muʻjam Al-Awsat 6192

Prophet Muḥammad صلى الله عليه وسلم said,

“When the dog licks the utensil, wash it seven times, and rub it with earth the eighth time.”

(Sahih Muslim 280a)

WHEN YOU ASSIST OTHERS, YOU'VE ONLY ASSISTED YOURSELF

Abdullaah bn Umar (radhiyal Laahu 'anh) narrated: the Messenger of Allaah (sallal Laahu' alayhi wassallam) said:

"Allaah has some slaves who have been appointed with benevolence with which they benefit people. He (Allaah) retains the favor with them as long as they spread it among the people.

Once they withhold it, Allaah seizes it from them and give it to others. "

📚 - Qadaa'ul Hawaa'ij by Ibn Abee Dunyaa #5, Saheehah #1692.

Sheikh aibn Uthaymeen رحمه الله said,

“How many a person really wanted to become righteous but remained in the company of those not righteous and then couldn’t do it.

If he were to have kept away from them, that would have been one of the ways to his being guided.”

[Fataawa Noor ‘Ala ad-Darb, vol. 12, pg. 18]

✒ Rushing In Recitation Of Qurʾān Is Blameworthy

Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallāhu-ʿAlaihi Wa Sallam said:

سيخرج أقوام من أمتي يشربون القرآن كشربهم اللبن

“There will emerge groups of people from my Ummah who will drink Qurʾān like they drink milk (i.e they would recite Qurʾān without pondering upon its meaning and rulings).”

● [مختصر صحيح الجامع الصغير برقم ٣٦٥٣ ، حسنه الألباني]

A repost! Something to really think about!

Home Safety

In a hadith narrated by both Bukhaari (3280) & Muslim (2012) the Messenger of Allah ﷺ instructed us that before sleeping we should :

"... And tie up your waterskins and mention the name of Allaah, and cover your vessels and mention the name of Allaah, even if you only put something over them, and extinguish your lamps.”
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Now a days we turn off the lights etc but we don't need to extinguish the fire lamps which aren't used anymore... It applies *more* to things that use fire & can cause fire rather than mere switching off tubelights and bulbs.

I say, that even if you dont have a samsung Note 7, please don't be overconfident to leave your phones charging overnight relying upon their inbuilt "overcharge protection" This hadith, if we think, applies more to things that can cause 🔥 than the actual fire 🔥.

Another riwayah which makes this easier to understand is :

Ibn 'Abbas (ra) said, "A mouse came and began to drag the wick. The slavegirl moved to stop it. The Prophet ﷺ, said, 'Leave it.' The mouse brought the wick and put it on the mat where he was sitting. It burned a hole in it the size of a dirham. The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said, 'When you go to sleep, put out the lights. Shaytan guides things like this and then they burn you " (Adab al mufrad)

Subhān Allah, look how wisely the Prophet ﷺ ordered the lady to stop & watch that naughty mouse untill he did his thing and then the prophet attributed that evil to shaytān influencing it ...So unless you wanna wake up in flames better not to leave any laptops and gadgets charging overnight.

Shaykh Uthaymin:

Time shows no mercy. It continues and no excuse or reason halts it. It stops not for [your] sleep, it stops not for [your] sickness. Every hour, every moment, it keeps going.”

Al-Liqa’aat at-Ramadaniyyah p.526

Allah remove the heedlessness from our hearts!

- Kashiff Khan

SIGNS OF GOOD CHARACTER ARE TEN.

Al-Haafiz `Abdur-Ra-oof Al-Munaawee [رحمه الله] [D. 1031 H] said: Yoosuf Ibn Asbaat said:

❝The sign of good character is in ten qualities:

1. Rarely arguing,
2. Treating others fairly,
3. Abandoning seeking out people’s faults,
4. Seeking to rectify and improve any evil qualities which appear,
5. Seeking excuses for people,
6. Bearing harm,
7. Blaming oneself,
8. Occupying oneself with awareness of one’s own faults and not with the faults of others,
9. Having a cheerful face,
10. And being mild in speech❞

[Faydul-Qadeer, (3/464) | Translated By Abū Talhah Dāwood Ibn Ronald Burbank]

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Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦.
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I'M ALSO SINNING, AM I ALLOWED TO ADVICE?

Al-Ḥāfidh Ibn Rajab رحمه الله said:

"If only the perfect, and those free from sins, gave advice, nobody would have ever advised anyone after the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ because there is no perfection for anyone after him."

[Latā'if al-Ma'ārif, p. 19]

ibn al-Qayyim  رحمه الله said:

“ Charity and charitable deeds (food, water, clothing, necessities) must be done as much as possible (in abundance)
For (doing) this has a wonderful effect in warding off (ongoing or impending) calamity.”

[Bada’i al-Fawaid, 2/238-245]

THE VIRTUES OF GOING EARLY FOR SALAT-UL-JUMU'AH

Related by Abu Hurairah (may ALLĀH be pleased with him):

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who takes a bath on Friday, like the bath for ceremonial purity, and then goes (to the mosque), he is like one who offers a camel as a sacrifice to seek the Pleasure of ALLĀH; and he who comes at the second hour is like one who offers a cow to win the Pleasure of ALLĀH; and he who comes at the third hour is like one who offers a ram with horns (in sacrifice); and he who comes at the fourth hour is like one who offers a hen; and he who comes at the fifth hour is like one who offers an egg. And when the Imam ascends the pulpit, the angels (who write the names of those who come to the mosque before the coming of the Imam) close (their record) in order to listen to the Khutbah.'' {Al-Bukhari and Muslim}.

{Riyadhus-Saliheen: Book 9, Chapter 210, Hadith 1155}

COMMENTARY:
This Hadith mentions the merits of going early for Salat-ul-Jumu'ah and narrates inducements provided for it. The earlier a person goes for it, the greater his reward will be. In fact, the reward for it goes on diminishing in proportion to the delay that he makes in reaching the mosque for this purpose so much so that he who reaches the Masjid after the Khutbah, will be totally deprived of the benefits which go with it because his name does not figure in the register which shows men of merits.

Salat-ul-Jumu'ah is also attended by angels. This fact shows the eminence for the Khutbah of Salat-ul-Jumu'ah and the Salah itself.

The Ghusl performed on Jumu'ah should be done with the same meticulous care as is done in Ghusl Janabah.

- Commentary by Hafiz Salahudeen Yusuf

HOW MANY OF US WILL DO THIS?

🔎 When was the last time you checked on your deceased friends' family?

Shihāb-Deen Ibn Raslān (d. 844h) رحمه الله said,

"In the past (among the Salaf), there were those who would check on the family & children of their brother forty years after his death, taking care of their needs and interests.

They would visit them every day, so they would not miss anything from the deceased except his presence, and one of them would go to the door of his brother in his absence and presence, and he would ask, saying:

‘Do you need oil? Do you need salt? Do you have any need?’ and he would fulfill it without his brother knowing.”

📕 Sharh Sunan Abi Dawud: (18/679).

✍️ Abu Awzaa’ee Abdus-Salaam al-Makki al-Hanbali وفقه الله
🕋 Makkah al-Mukarramah
🗓 17 Ramadan, 1445 (March 27, 2024ce)

“Anger is like a lion; if its owner sets it free it will eat him. Desire is like a fire; if its owner starts it, it will burn him. Pride is like fighting against a king to take his Kingdom, if it does not destroy you it will expel you, and envy is like showing enmity to one who is more powerful than you. Whoever overcomes his desire and anger, Satan will depart from him, and whoever's desire and anger beat him, Satan will stick to him.”

~Ibn al-Qayyim
[al-Fawaid| Pg. 267]📚

Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 A.H.) -Rahimullaah- said: ‘Iblees (Shaytaan) deceived a group of the Soofeeyah, from them were those who secluded themselves in a mountain, like monks. Spending the night alone, and reach the morning alone, so they would miss the Jumma’ prayer and the congregational prayer and mixing
with the people of knowledge.’

-[‘Talbees Iblees’ by Ibn al-Jawzi p.307, ‘Ijteema al-Jayoosh al- Islaamee’ by Ibn al-Qayyim p.142]

✒ Trust

Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallāhu-ʿAlaihi Wa Sallam said:

إذا حدث الرجل الحديث ثم التفت فهي أمانة

“If a person tells you something and afterwards looks around (carefully), then it becomes an Amānah (trust with you).”

● [الجامع الصحيح سنن الترمذي ١٩٥٩ ، حسنه الألباني]

💎 Additional Benefit 💎

Sh. Muḥammad b. ʿAbdur-Raḥmān al-Mubārakfūree Raḥimahullāh said in its Sharḥ:

“His ‘looking around’ is a sign for the one he is narrating to that he is afraid of being heard by anyone else [...] and that to hide this conversation and keep it as a trust with you.”

● [تحفة الأحوذي]

Sh. ʿAbdur-Razzāq al-Badr Hafiẓahullāh said EVEN if the person does not say that my speech is an Amānah, his looking around makes it a trust with you.

Via: Brother خلیل ابرار

Not everyone you meet needs to be replied back to, remain quiet.

Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) reported:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "He who believes in Allah and the Last Day must either speak good or remain silent."

[Muslim]

The stages of seeking knowledge:

Muhammad Ibn al-Nadhar said:
“The first (level) of seeking Ilm is: Listening and paying attention, then its memorization, then its implementation, then its propagation.”
[Siyar Alaam al-Nubalaa’ of al-Dhahabee (7/227)]