The Prophet ‎ﷺ said:

"Whoever makes the world his most important concern, Allah will scatter his affairs, and will place poverty before his eyes, and he will get nothing of the world except what has been decreed for him.

And whoever makes the Hereafter his concern, Allah will gather/settle his affairs, and will place contentment in his heart, and the world will reluctantly come to him."

📖Sunan Ibn Majah 4105

The origin of Tawaf comes from the Tawaf of Hajar (Prophet Ibrahim's wife), between As-Safa and Al-Marwah seeking water for her son (Ismail).

Ibrahim had left them in Makkah (upon Allah’s command), where there was no habitation for her. When Hajar feared that her son would die, she stood up and begged Allah for His help and kept going back and forth in that blessed area between As-Safa and Al-Marwah. She was humble, fearful, frightened and meek before Allah.

Allah answered her prayers, relieved her of her loneliness, ended her dilemma and made the well of Zamzam bring forth its water for her, which is: “A tasty (or nutritional) food and a remedy for the illness.”

Therefore, whoever performs Sa'i between As-Safa and Al-Marwah should remember his meekness, humbleness and need for Allah to guide his heart, lead his affairs to success and forgive his sins. He should also want Allah to eliminate his shortcomings and errors and to guide him to the straight path. He should ask Allah to keep him firm on this path until he meets death, and to change his situation from that of sin and errors to that of perfection and being forgiven, - the same providence which was provided to Hajar.

📖 Tafsir ibn Kathir vol 1, pg 451🫀

💠 When Deen becomes one's source of livelihood:

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It is already difficult to explain to a person of desires that listening to music is Haraam, making sculptures of animated object or taking their pictures is Haraam etc. But it becomes all the more difficult to explain to a person when these things are a source of his livelihood.

📕Narrated Saeed bin Abu Al-Hasan: While I was with Ibn Abbaas a man came and said: "O father of Abbaas! My sustenance is from my manual profession and I make these pictures." Ibn Abbaas said: "I will tell you only what I heard from Allaah's Messenger ﷺ. I heard him saying: 'Whoever makes a picture will be punished by Allaah till he puts life in it, and he will never be able to put life in it.'" Hearing this, that man heaved a sigh and his face turned pale. Ibn Abbaas said to him: "What a pity! If you insist on making pictures I advise you to make pictures of trees and any other unanimated objects."
📑 [Saheeh al-Bukhaaree (2225)]

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💢 Commercialization of Dawah:

🔴 In the field of Da`wah, many people started small.

🔵 They had a humble beginning.

🔴 They started by giving lectures/Khutbah in the Masaajid.

🔵 Then their fame grew.

🔴 Then they formed an organization.

🔵 Soon this organization has branches all over the country.

🔴 Then there is a need for huge funds to maintain these organizations and for their around the world tours.

🔵 To survive they then feel the need to kill the competition.

🔴 To maintain permanent following and followers, they feel the need to distance the people from the real scholars.

🔵 They start rumors that the scholars of the "East" do not know about the conditions and the situations of the people living in the West.

🔴 In order to grow further and maintain fan loyalty, they give people the “Fatwa” which suites the people’s desires.

🔥 They end up Westernizing Islaam and watering it down.

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💢 The Sufees:

🔴 Like the Jews and the Christians, many Sufees also know that the religion of grave worship and saint worship, which they are propagating, is nothing but falsehood.

🔵 But it is the desire to cling on to this worldly life and to earn an easy livelihood; they try to keep the mass ignorant of the reality of Islaam.

🔴 They scare the people by saying: “Do not read the Qur’aan with translation, you’ll become a deviant or you’ll become a “Wahhaabee”, “Do not read the books of Ahaadeeth, they are too difficult for you to understand.”

🔥 The grave of their so called “saints” are a minting machine for them through which they make millions and millions worth of dollars annually.

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{O you who believe! Verily, there are many of the (Jewish) rabbis and the (Christian) monks who devour the wealth of mankind in falsehood, AND HINDER (THEM) FROM THE WAY OF ALLAAH (i.e. Allaah's RELIGION.} [Surah al-Tawbah (9): 34]

MUSLIMS NOWADAYS: Christmas, Xmas Party, Birthdays, Baby shower, New Year, Concert, Smoking, Alcohol, Riba (Interests), is HALAL to them. Only PORK is HARAM.
#MayAllahForgiveUs #SadREALITY

Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله تعالى) said:

"O you who are patient!
Bear a little more, just a little more remains. "

[Al-Fawaa'id pg. 119]

*Wahb Bin Munbih said:*

“The example of the *dunya* (worldly life) and *hereafter* is like the example of a man who has two wives. If he *pleases one of them*, the other one will be displeased.”

*[Kitaab Dham Ad-Dunya, 1/119]*

The Virtue Of Makkah🫀🎯

Upon the authority of Abdullah ibn Uday Az Zuhri [رضي الله عنه] who said I saw the Messenger of Allah [ﷺ] standing in Hazwarah [A place in Makkah] and he said:

❝Wallahi Indeed you [Makkah] are the best of the lands of Allah and the most beloved land to Allah, and if it were not for the fact that i was expelled from you i would not have left.❞

[Collected By At Tirmidhi, (No. 3925)]

Fajr and Qur'an

Advice from the Salaf for the one who finds little barakah in his time

One of the Salaf once said,

"Everytime I increased upon my (daily) portion of Qur'aan, my time would increase in barakah (blessings). I kept on increasing up until my daily portion reached ten Juz' (a third of the Qur'aan)!"

Ibraaheem bin 'Abdil-Waahid al-Maqdisee said, whilst advising ad-Diyaa' al-Maqdisee who intended to go out on a journey to seek knowledge,

"Recite much Qur'aan and don't abandon it, for verily that which you want to learn will become easier in accordance with how much you recite."

ad-Diyaa' said,

"So I noticed this and experienced it much. If I recited a lot of Qur'aan then listening to many Hadeeth and writing all of them down would be easy for me, and if I didn't recite then it would become difficult."

Dheelu Tabaqaatil-Hanaabilah of Ibn Rajab (3/205)

On Qadr (Destiny) There is a quote that has resonated with me deeply throughout my life: “What is meant for you, will reach you, even if it is beneath two mountains. And what is not meant for you, will not reach you, even if it's between your two lips

Never back down upon speaking the truth, no matter who's eyes it hurts.

Never stop acting upon the truth, no matter who stands against you.

If you do something for Allahs sake alone, it means you will never back down from it, otherwise was it really for Allah?

If you know that Allah knows you better, does it matter what the envious and ignorant assume?

Why would you expect gratitude from people and why do you get upset when the ignorant open their mouths?

You do for Allah and you leave it and that is all that's to it.

If the ummah can betray the purest from them, then who are you to expect other than betrayal wrong assumptions and ignorant accusations?

If the Prophets were hurt the most from their own people, why do you expect to be treated different?

The age we live in:

Truth is silenced so that "my personal truth" is Not Offended.

Objectivity is silenced so that subjectivity is Not Offended.

Logic is silenced so that feelings are Not Offended.

Reality is silenced so that delusions are Not Offended.

Virtue is silenced so that fahisha is Not Offended.

Decency is silenced so that degeneracy is Not Offended.

Principle is silenced so that whims are Not Offended.

Orthodox Islam is silenced so that liberal "Islam" is Not Offended.

Islam is silenced so that false ideologies and -isms are Not Offended.

This is how we end up with watered-down "Compassionate" cotton-candy "Islam" so that deceits like liberalism, feminism, HGTV, perennialism, atheism are Not Offended.

صدق رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم.

The Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) has spoken the Truth.

It was narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allāh be Pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) said:

“There will come to the people years of Treachery, when the Liar will be regarded as Honest, and the Honest man will be regarded as a Liar; the Traitor will be regarded as Faithful, and the Faithful man will be regarded as a Traitor; and the Ruwaibidah will decide matters.’

It was said: ‘Who are the Ruwaibidah?’

He said: ‘Vile and Base men who control the affairs of the people.’” [Sunan Ibn Majah 4036]

عن أبي هريرة رضي الله عنه أن رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم قال: سيأتِي على الناسِ سنواتٌ خدّاعاتٌ؛ يُصدَّقُ فيها الكاذِبُ، ويُكذَّبُ فيها الصادِقُ، ويُؤتَمَنُ فيها الخائِنُ، ويخَوَّنُ فيها الأمينُ، وينطِقُ فيها الرُّويْبِضَةُ . قِيلَ : وما الرُّويْبِضةُ ؟ قال : الرجُلُ التّافِهُ يتَكلَّمُ في أمرِ العامةِ.

Umm Khalid

If The Hearts Are Together...

Abu Sulaymān al-Khaṭābi رحمه الله gathered the following narration in 'al-Uzlah' from Ishāq ibn Ibrahīm, who said:

"Between Abdur-Rahmān ibn Mahdī and Yahya ibn Sa'īd al-Qaṭān* there was mutual love and brotherhood, and a year would pass them by without meeting. So one of them was questioned about this, and he responded:

إذا تقاربت القلوب لم يضرّ تباعد الأجسام......
إو كلمة نحوها

'If the hearts have been brought near, the physical distance does not hurt', or words similar to this."

Source: al-Uzlah, p.133 Dār ibn Kathīr

*They are two of the great, reliable Imams from Basrah, both died in the year 198 Hijri رحمهما الله

Shaykh ‘Abdur-Razzāq al-Badr (حفظه الله) said:

‎“Manhood is when a man stands with the men five times (a day) in the Houses of Allāh.”

A teacher gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it and throw it in the hallway. The teacher then mixed all the balloons. The students were then given 5 minutes to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon.
At that point, the teacher told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes, everyone had their own balloon.
The teacher said to the students: "These balloons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness, we'll find ours too."
May your day be filled with happiness. 🫀

Ibn al-Jawzi said:

“Something was causing me a great deal of grief and distress, and I started to think long and hard about how to get out of this situation by any means, but I could not find any way out. Then I came across this verse:

“… *And whosoever fears Allah and keeps his duty to Him, He will make a way for him to get out [of every difficulty]*.” (Surah Talaq, 65:2)

I realized that Taqwa ( piety, fearing Allah ) is the way out of every kind of grief and distress. As soon as I followed the path of Taqwa, I found the way out."

Al Ma’moon said:

❝People are of three types:

1 – One that is like food, and are a necessity,

2 – One that is like Medicine, one needs them during times of illness,

3 – One that is like an illness, despicable in every circumstance.❞

[Collected By Imaamudh Dhahabi In Siyar A’laamin Nubalaa, (10/283)]

Ibn Uthaymeen رحمه الله

You will find some people, Allāh has given them much knowledge however it is as if he is illiterate. You do NOT see upon him the effects of knowledge in his worship, nor in his character, nor in his behaviour nor in his interactions.

شرح دعاء قنوت الوتر ص١١
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~ Markaz Muaadh

Learning to the stories of the prophets.
will makes us realize the pattern..they went through so much eventhough they were prophets of Allah but at the end they saw results. And this is a lesson for all of us to have patience and keep believing in Allah, inshaAllah we will get rewards in this life as well in the hereafter. One important thing is that we need to read the Quran in our native language that will help us understand and realizing what the prophets went through, also studying the Seerah. May Allah guide us to the right path especially we are living in testing time . Remember this isn’t jannah yet . Allah created us and each one of us will have tests.
Ya Allah please ease all our suffering and pain of this life help us to become better believers Ameen.

ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb رضي الله عنه stated:

‎"Avoid the enemies of Allāh during their festivals, for indeed the anger of Allāh descends down upon them during that time."

‎[Shuʿab al-Īmān of Al-Bayḥaqī 894]