What's My Future?

The Messenger of ALLAAHصلى الله تعالى عليه وعلى آله وأصحابه وسلم said: "Whoever wants to know what ALLAAH has prepared for him, he should look to what he has prepared for ALLAAH."

[Abu Nu'aym, Al-Hilyah, Silsilah Ahadeeth As-Saheehah]

What a beautiful, simple formula to calculate one's future with! Match yourself against the Quran and the Sunnah to know who you are, and look what you have set aside for ALLAAHتعالى. To know what ALLAAH, THE MIGHTY AND MAJESTIC HAS PREPARED for you.

'O you who believe! Fear ALLAAH and let each soul see what it has sent forward for the morrow and fear ALLAAH.' [Surah Hashr: 18]

'Umarرضي الله تعالى عنه used to say: "Take account of yourselves before you are taken into account, weigh your deeds before they are weighed."

Hasan Al-Basri (Rahimahullah) said: "A believer will always be critical of himself, in his food, his drink and his speech. A sinner will not criticize himself." He also said: "A believer is guardian over himself; he takes account of himself for ALLAAH. Those who take account of themselves in this world, will be audited lightly in the Hereafter. Those who take this issue lightly will find their auditing very difficult."

[Igathat al-lahfan 1/99-101 by Imam Ibnul Qayyim al-Jawziyyah].

Uthman reported: The Allah's messenger, Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) said,
“Verily, the grave is the first stage of the Hereafter. Whoever is saved from it, whatever comes after will be easier for him. If he is not saved from it, whatever comes after will be harder for him. I have never seen anything more frightening than the Grave.”
(Sunan al - Tirmidhi - 2308)

Imam Ahmad رحمه الله stated:

There will come a time upon people, a believer will be like a stinky carcass (disliked and hated by people around him) among them ! And people will point towards Munāfiq (Hypocrite) their fingers (i.e he is a remarkable person) . They will make the commandments of Allah something in which there is no benefit .

When a believer will see an opportunity for commanding good or prohibiting evil , he will not be patient about it till he commands (good) or forbids (evil), but the people will complain that he is doing something which doesn't concern him i.e there is no benefit in what he is doing !

As for a hypocrite (Munāfiq), whatever he sees , he will not care about it and it will be said about him: What a good person he is , he doesn't intervene in what doesn't concern him."

[Adāb Ash-Shari'ah by Ibn Muflih 1/193]

Malik and Zayd ibn Thabit (radhiallahu 'anhum) related that the Prophet (sallallahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said:

"For the ones whose concern is this world, Allah will scatter his affairs, place poverty between his two eyes and he will not get from the world except what is written for him. As for the one whose intention is the Hereafter, Allah will gather for him his affairs, place contentment in his heart and the world will come to him willingly." [Ibn Majah, Sahih al-Jami' #6386]

Fear of a Bad Ending 😢

Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) said:

Sufyaan ath-Thawri (rahimahullah) once cried a whole night until the morning, so in the morning he was asked if his cry was due to the fear of sins.

He picked some hay from the ground and said:

“Sins are lighter than this hay, I only cried out of fear of the bad ending!”

Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) said:

And this is the peak of Fīqh (knowledge and understanding) that a man fears that his sins (or inner secrets and condition of the heart) let him down at the time of death and that they come between him and the good ending.

[al-Daa wad Dawaa, 390, Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah)]

Prophet Yusuf A.S spent 7+ years in jail, but he didn't think that those years were being wasted.
He didn't ask Allah that ya Rabb, I'm a prophet.
Why have you put me in this jail where I'm unable to preach your Deen to the masses? I have such important work to do, why am I locked away?
He didn't for a moment think that his time as a prisoner was wasted. He knew Allah had a plan for him, and He trusted that plan.
He preached to the prisoners and did what he could. He was content in the jail, as he was content outside of it when his time as a prisoner was over and he became ruler of Egypt. What's true for Prophet Yusuf (as) is also true for you and I - whatever situation and life circumstance Allah has decreed for us, that's where we are meant to be.

So remind yourself that your
years of struggles aren't wasted.

Your years of grief aren't wasted.

Your years of waiting aren't wasted.

Your years of illness aren't wasted.

Allah SWT has a plan for you, Trust Him. 🤍

If you broadcast your good deeds with the intention of showing off in front of people, do not expect any reward from Allāh, for any deed you did with such intentions.

He knew your heart, and Allāh is the Pure and accepts that which is purely done for His sake alone.

Abu Sa’d reported: The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “When Allah gathers the people on the Day of Resurrection, a day of which there is no doubt, an announcement will be made: To those who shared with anyone in deeds done for Allah, then let him seek his reward from those besides Allah. Verily, Allah is free of any partners.”

Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3154

Grade: Hasan (fair) according to At-Tirmidhi

عَنْ أَبِي سَعْدِ بْنِ أَبِي فَضَالَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ إِذَا جَمَعَ اللَّهُ النَّاسَ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ لِيَوْمٍ لَا رَيْبَ فِيهِ نَادَى مُنَادٍ مَنْ كَانَ أَشْرَكَ فِي عَمَلٍ عَمِلَهُ لِلَّهِ أَحَدًا فَلْيَطْلُبْ ثَوَابَهُ مِنْ عِنْدِ غَيْرِ اللَّهِ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ أَغْنَى الشُّرَكَاءِ عَنْ الشِّرْكِ

3154 سنن الترمذي كتاب تفسير القرآن باب ومن سورة الكهف

قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ حَسَنٌ غَرِيبٌ

Fear of a Bad Ending 😢

Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) said:

Sufyaan ath-Thawri (rahimahullah) once cried a whole night until the morning, so in the morning he was asked if his cry was due to the fear of sins.

He picked some hay from the ground and said:

“Sins are lighter than this hay, I only cried out of fear of the bad ending!”

Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah) said:

And this is the peak of Fīqh (knowledge and understanding) that a man fears that his sins (or inner secrets and condition of the heart) let him down at the time of death and that they come between him and the good ending.

[al-Daa wad Dawaa, 390, Ibn al-Qayyim (rahimahullah)]

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]

It is narrated on the authority of Abu Huraira that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

"بَادِرُوا بِالأَعْمَالِ فِتَنًا كَقِطَعِ اللَّيْلِ الْمُظْلِمِ يُصْبِحُ الرَّجُلُ مُؤْمِنًا وَيُمْسِي كَافِرًا أَوْ يُمْسِي مُؤْمِنًا وَيُصْبِحُ كَافِرًا يَبِيعُ دِينَهُ بِعَرَضٍ مِنَ الدُّنْيَا"‏

Hasten to do good deeds (before you are overtaken) by a fitna which would be like a part of the dark night. During (that stormy period) a man would be a believer in the morning and a disbeliever in the evening or he would be a believer in the evening and a disbeliever in the morning, and he would sell his religion for worldly gain.

📜 Sahih Muslim 118

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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"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]

Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal رحمه الله was asked:

“How do you know the liars?”

He replied: “By their punctuality (i.e. honouring time)”

Adab al-Imlā'a wal Istimlā'a lis-Sam'āni, Page 40

Hasan al-Basri رحمه الله:

"I went to a cloth merchant in Madinah to buy a thoub.

He started praising his products and making (false) oaths.

And so I left him and said to myself: "I shouldn't buy from such a person." And I bought it from someone else.

Two years later I made Hajj and went to that merchant, but this time I did not hear him praising his products or making oaths.

I said to him: "Aren't you the man to whom I came to two years ago?"

He said: "Yes."

I said: "And what made you leave doing what I saw you doing back then? Now I don't see you praising your products or making oaths!"

He said: "I had a wife, and whenever I came to her with less, she would look down on me and whenever I came to her with much, she considered it to be little. Then Allāh looked at me (meaning: He had mercy on me) and she passed away and I married again.

Whenever I wanted to go to the market (to earn my livelihood), she used to grab me by the collar of my garment and say: "O So-and-so! Fear Allāh and do not feed us except with the pure (halal earnings). If you come to us with less, we will add to it. And if we receive nothing, we will support you in our home (by making handicrafts and selling them, wa Allāhu a'lam)"

[al-Mujalasah wal Jawahir al-'Ilm, Ahmad Ibn Marwan Ibn Muhammad al-Daynuri]

When you get hurt, remember there will be always cases of people who suffered and endured more than you.

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Narrated by Abdullah ibn Mas'ud رضى الله عنه :

"Once Allah's Apostle ﷺ distributed (war booty), and a man from the Ansar remarked, 'By Allah! Muhammad did not intend to please Allah with this distribution.'

So I came to Allah's Apostle and informed him of that, whereupon his face became changed with anger, and he ﷺ said,

رَحِمَ اللَّهُ مُوسَى، قَدْ أُوذِيَ بِأَكْثَرَ مِنْ هَذَا فَصَبَرَ

'May Allah bestow His Mercy on Moses, for he was hurt with more than this, yet he remained patient' "

[Sahih al-Bukhari, Book of Good Manners (Al-Adab), Hadith 6101]

🆕 💎Beautiful Benefit: Why It’s Best Complain to Allah About Yourself!

"الجَاهِلُ يَشْكُو اللهَ إِلَى النَّاسِ، وَهَذَا غَايَةُ الجَهْلِ بِالمَشْكُوِّ وَالمَشْكُوِّ إِلَيْهِ؛ فَإِنَّهُ لَوْ عَرَفَ رَبَّهُ لَمَا شَكَاهُ، وَلَوْ عَرَفَ النَّاسَ لَمَا شَكَا إِلَيْهِمْ.

“The ignorant person complains about Allah to people, and this is the epitome of ignorance about the One complained about and the one complained to; for if he knew his Lord, he would not complain about Him, and if he knew the people, he would not complain to them.

وَرَأَى بَعْضُ السَّلَفِ رَجُلًا يَشْكُو إِلَى رَجُلٍ فَاقَتَهُ وَضَرُورَتَهُ، فَقَالَ: يَا هَذَا! وَاللهِ مَا زِدْتَ عَلَى أَنْ شَكَوْتَ مَنْ يَرْحَمُكَ إِلَى مَنْ لَا يَرْحَمُكَ. وَفِي ذَلِكَ قِيلَ:

One of the Salaf saw a man complaining to another man about his poverty and need, and he said: O you! By Allah, you haven’t accomplished anything more than complaining about the One who is merciful to you to someone who does not have mercy on you. It is said in this regard:

وَإِذَا شَكَوْتَ إِلَى ابْنِ آدَمَ إِنَّمَا ... تَشْكُو الرَّحِيمَ إِلَى الَّذِي لَا يَرْحَمُ

And if you complain to the son of Adam, you are ... complaining about the Merciful to the one who does not have mercy

وَالعَارِفُ إِنَّمَا يَشْكُو إِلَى اللهِ وَحْدَهُ.

And the knower (of Allah) only complains to Allah alone.

وَأَعْرَفُ العَارِفِينَ مَنْ جَعَلَ شَكْوَاهُ إِلَى اللهِ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ لَا مِنَ النَّاسِ؛ فَهُوَ يَشْكُو مِنْ مُوجِبَاتِ تَسْلِيطِ النَّاسِ عَلَيْهِ؛

The most knowledgeable of the knowers is the one who makes his complaint to Allah about himself, not about people; for (by doing so) he complains about the causes that lead to people dominating him.

فَهُوَ نَاظِرٌ إِلَى قَوْلِهِ تَعَالَى: ﴿وَمَا أَصَابَكُمْ مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيدِيكُمْ﴾ [الشُّورَى: ٣٠]، وَقَوْلِهِ: ﴿وَمَا أَصَابَكَ مِنْ سَيِّئَةٍ فَمِنْ نَفْسِكَ﴾ [النِّسَاءِ: ٧٩]، وَقَوْلِهِ: ﴿أَوَلَمَّا أَصَابَتْكُمْ مُصِيبَةٌ قَدْ أَصَبْتُمْ مِثْلَيهَا قُلْتُمْ أَنَّى هَذَا قُلْ هُوَ مِنْ عِنْدِ أَنْفُسِكُمْ﴾ [آلِ عِمْرَانَ: ١٦٥].

He does this reflecting on the words of Allah the Exalted: "And whatever strikes you of disaster - it is for what your hands have earned" [Ash-Shura: 30], and His saying: "And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned" [An-Nisa: 79], and His statement: "And when disaster struck you, although you had struck with one twice as great, you said, 'From where is this?' Say, 'It is from yourselves'" [Aal Imran: 165].

فَالمَرَاتِبُ ثَلَاثَةٌ: أَخَسُّهَا: أَنْ تَشْكُوَ اللهَ إِلَى خَلْقِهِ، وَأَعْلَاهَا: أَنْ تَشْكُوَ نَفْسَكَ إِلَيْهِ، وَأَوْسَطُهَا: أَنْ تَشْكُوَ خَلْقَهُ إِلَيْهِ".

Thus, the levels are three: the lowest is to complain about Allah to His creation, the highest is to complain about yourself to Him, and the intermediate is to complain about His creation to Him.”

🖋 Saying ‘Wallāhi’ A Lot

Sh. Ibn ʿUthaymeen:

“Abundantly swearing by Allāh is a proof that the person taking oath has no respect for Allāh in his heart which is required to fear Him,

And no doubt respect for Allāh is from the PERFECTION OF TAWḤEED.”

● [شرح كتاب التوحيد ٥٠]

IBN AL-JAWZI SAID:
"O' my brothers, beware of this Dunyah for indeed its magic is more dangerous
than that of Harüt and Marüt: Their magic caused separation between a
man and his wife. But this Dunyah's magic causes separation between the slave and his Lord [Allahl.
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It is a Fitnah when one is prevented from seeking beneficial knowledge and from doing righteous deeds.

Imaam Al-Awzaaee رحمه الله:

❝When Allaah تعالى intends evil for a people, He تعالى opens for them the door of argument (and quarrel), and prevents them from (doing righteous) Deeds.❞

📚 [Taareekh Damishq of Ibn Asaakir, Siyar Alaam al-Nubalaa' of al-Dhahabee]

May Allaah rectify our affairs, unite our ranks upon Truth, and guide us to that which He تعالى loves and is pleased with.

Not pointing to any one side, but this infighting is taking with it its share of casualties. We have already posted the statements of some of the sisters, and this is yet another one, this time, it is from a group of sisters.

Yet, when we say leave us out of this, it doesn't go well with many of them. Indeed the hearts of some are blinded to not notice the adverse effect this infighting is causing on the Dawah.

✒ The Insignificance Of Worldly Enjoyments As Compared To The Blessings Of The Hereafter

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : والله ما الدنيا في الآخرة إلا مثل ما يجعل أحدكم إصبعه هذه - وأشار يحيى بالسبابة - في اليم فلينظر بم يرجع

The Messenger of Allāh Ṣallallāhu-'Alaihi Wa Sallam said:

“By Allāh, what is Dunyā (i.e in its luxuries and comfort) as compared to the Ākhirah (Hereafter), except like an example of one of you dipping his index finger into the sea, then let him take a look at what it RETURNS with.”

● [مختصر صحيح الجامع الصغير ٧١٠٠ ، صححه الألباني

Mukhtaṣar Ṣaḥīḥ al-Jāmi' aṣ-Ṣagheer no. 7100, declared 'Authentic' by al-Albānī]

Translated By: Sameeullaah Sameeullaah (Aboo Maryamm)

#hadithmk
Abu Hurairah narrated that the Prophet(s.a.w) said:
"You are in a time when whoever abandons a tenth of what he has been ordered, then he is ruined. Then, there will come a time in which whoever does a tenth of what he has been ordered shall be saved."
حَدَّثَنَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ يَعْقُوبَ الْجُوزَجَانِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا نُعَيْمُ بْنُ حَمَّادٍ، حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ بْنُ عُيَيْنَةَ، عَنْ أَبِي الزِّنَادِ، عَنِ الأَعْرَجِ، عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ، عَنِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم قَالَ ‏ "‏ إِنَّكُمْ فِي زَمَانٍ مَنْ تَرَكَ مِنْكُمْ عُشْرَ مَا أُمِرَ بِهِ هَلَكَ ثُمَّ يَأْتِي زَمَانٌ مَنْ عَمِلَ مِنْهُمْ بِعُشْرِ مَا أُمِرَ بِهِ نَجَا ‏"‏ ‏.‏ قَالَ أَبُو عِيسَى هَذَا حَدِيثٌ غَرِيبٌ لاَ نَعْرِفُهُ إِلاَّ مِنْ حَدِيثِ نُعَيْمِ بْنِ حَمَّادٍ عَنْ سُفْيَانَ بْنِ عُيَيْنَةَ ‏.‏ قَالَ وَفِي الْبَابِ عَنْ أَبِي ذَرٍّ وَأَبِي سَعِيدٍ ‏.‏
Grade: Hasan (Darussalam)
Reference : Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2267
In-book reference : Book 33, Hadith 110
English translation : Vol. 4, Book 7, Hadith 2267