A Supplication to Remove Poverty and All Harms

Mak-hool (rahimahullah) said:

Whoever says —

لاَ حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إِلاَّ بِاللهِ ،وَلا مَلْجَأَ مِنَ اللهِ إِلاَّ إلَيْهِ

laa hawlaa wa-laa quwwata illa bilLaah, wa-laa mal-ja’a min-Allahi illa ilayH

There is no power nor strength except with Allah, and there is no refuge from Allah except unto Him

— Allah will remove from him seventy types of harm,

the least of which is poverty.

[Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah (rahimahullah), 20447]

From the Treasures of Jannah

Abu Musa (radiyAllahu ‘anhu) reported:

The Messenger of Allah (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said to me, "Shall I not guide you to a treasure from the treasures of Jannah?"

I said: "Yes, O Messenger of Allah!"

Thereupon he (sallAllahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,

لاَ حَوْلَ وَلا قُوَّةَ إِلاَّ بِاللهِ

"(Recite) 'laa hawla wa laa quwwata illa bilLaah' (there is no change of a condition nor power except by Allah)."

[aI-Bukhari 6384, and Muslim 2704, an-Nasa’i in ‘Amal al-Yawm wal-Laylah’ 356, Riyad as-Salihin, 1443, In-Book Reference: Book 15, Hadith 36, Buloogh al-Mar’am, Book 16, Hadith no. 111]

an-Nasa’i (rahimahullah) added in his version,

{وَلَا مَلْجَأَ مِنَ اللَّهِ إِلَّا إِلَيْهِ}

“there is no refuge from Allah except by turning to Him.”

[Buloogh al-Mar’am, Book 16, Hadith no. 112, an-Nasa’i in ‘Amal al-Yawm wal-Laylah’ 358]

*Al-Ḥasan (al-Baṣrī) رحمه اللهsaid:*

*“O son of Ādam! Sell your current life for your Hereafter, and you will win both. Do not sell your Hereafter for this life, for you will lose them both.”*

*[Abū Nuʿaym al-ʾAṣbahānī, Ḥilyah ʾl-Awliyāʾ 2/143]*

Question:

What is better, that a person reads the Qur’aan and finishes it many times or that he reads it pondering over its Tafseer [and finishes it] once or twice in Ramadhaan?

Shaykh Ahmad Yahya An-Najmee:

”By Allaah if he reads it once with its explanation and understands it, it is better than if he reads it being hasty or so. And when a man said to Abdullah Ibn Mas’ood (Radiya Allaahu ‘anhu),” I have indeed read al Mufassal yesterday” [Mufassal, 4 Juzz from Qaaf up to An-Naas]. Ibn Mas’ood answered: “This is the reading of a hasty poet.”

It is therefore better to read and ponder [over the Aayah] using an explanation to make the meaning clear. It is better to read with a Tafseer and to ponder [over the Aayah], Na’am.”

_Sayyiduna Abu Hurayrah رضي الله عنه used to say:_

_“When the Quran is recited in a home, that house becomes spacious and comfortable for those who live there. Angels remain present within it, devils stay away from it, and its blessings increase. But when the Quran is not recited in a home, that house becomes cramped and uncomfortable for its inhabitants. The angels depart from it, devils enter it, and its blessings decrease.”_

*_(Sunan Darimi, Hadith: 3352)_*

Allaah, The Most High, said:
‎وَقُولُوا لِلنَّاسِ حُسْنًا
((And speak good to people)) (Al-Baqarah: 83)

He, The Mighty and Majestic, said likewise:

‎وَقُل لِّعِبَادِي يَقُولُوا الَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ ۚ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَنزَغُ بَيْنَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ كَانَ لِلْإِنسَانِ عَدُوًّا مُّبِينًا
((And say to My servants that they should say that which is best. Indeed, Satan provokes strife between them. Verily; Satan is to man a clear enemy.)) (Al-Israa: 53)

The Prophet (sallallaahu ‘alaihi wa sallam) said:
‎الكَلِمَةُ الطَّيِّبَةُ صَدَقَةٌ
((The good word is charity.))
[Reported by Al-Bukhaaree (no.2707) and Muslim (no.1009)]

Shaikh ‘Uthaimeen (rahimahullaah) said: “The good word in reality opens the heart and becomes a reason for an abundance of good.”

[Al-Qawl al-Mufeed ‘alaa Kitaab at-Tawheed vol.2 p.88]
https://www.wrightstreetmosque.com/words-that-inspired-statements-that-motivated-the-great-scholars/#_ftn3

Today's chain of transmission in taking Islamic knowledge:

" I saw Google who narrated from FaceBook who narrated from Twitter from You Tube from keyboard Mufti who got his inspiration from his own desires who said: Verily, the religion is about being kind to others and that is based purely on your personal opinions and desires and your perception of what is good, and when in doubt, open up the online shopping cart and engage yourself in fatwa shopping and make sure you start the chain of narration from Google. "

[Source: Imam Liberalist son of Modernist]

~ Moral of the story: knowledge starts from Google and ends with Google ~

When Ibn Taymiyyah entered prison, he found the prisoners pre-occupied with various types of games with which they passed time, such as chess, backgammon and the likes, of (those things that lead) to neglect of the five daily prayers.

So Ibn Taymiyyah disapproved of that from them.

He commanded them to adhere to the five daily prayers and to turn to Allaah through performance of righteous deeds, glorification of Allaah, seeking forgiveness for their sins and du’3a.

He made them acquainted with what they were in need of from the Sunnah.

He awakened their desire for it and urged them towards it, until a lot of good came about in the prison until the prison turned into a place of knowledge and religion so it became better than many of the small prayer rooms, the hospices, the places where people secluded themselves for worship and even the schools!

And it reached a point where many prisoners chose to remain with him after they were released, and those returning to the prison, which made it became so numerous that it became filled with them!

● [al-Uqood Ad-Du’riyyah Fee Dhikri Manaaqib Sheikh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyyah (pp. 330-331)]

The highest level of enjoining good and forbidding evil.

What brings tranquility to the hearts?

"Surely, in the remembrance of Allah do hearts find tranquility"
Surah ar-Ra‘d (13:28)

What does “find tranquility” (تطمئن) mean?
It means: to become wholesome, calm, content, comforted, and happy.

What is meant by the remembrance of Allah (ذكر الله)?

The remembrance of Allah is of five types:

1. Praising Allah through His Names and Attributes.

2. Glorifying Him — through tasbīḥ (سبحان الله), taḥmīd (الحمد لله), takbīr (الله أكبر), tahlīl (لا إله إلا الله), and exalting Him.

3. Supplicating Him, seeking His forgiveness, and humbly turning to Him.

4. Reciting the Qur’an.

5. Studying Allah’s rulings, commands, and prohibitions — which is the remembrance of the scholar.

These are the doors to happiness—open and made easy for anyone whom Allah grants success.

Some people need to be punished with a lesson. The lesson of:

“You don’t know what you had until it’s gone”

Mark these remarkable words of one of the sub continent's greatest scholars. So relevant to our times, as if this was specifically told for Indian Muslims.

"If you make Muslims one hundred per cent mindful of their Nawafil (optional prayers) making them all very pious, but leave them cut off from the wider environment, ignorant of where the country is heading and of how hatred is being stirred up in the country against them, then, leave alone the optional prayers, it will soon become impossible for Muslims to say even their five daily prayers.

"If you make Muslims strangers in their own land, blind them to social realities and cause them to remain indifferent to the radical changes taking place in the country and the new laws that are being imposed and the new ideas that are ruling people's hearts and minds, then let alone (acquiring) leadership (of the country), it will become difficult for Muslims to even ensure their own existence"

- Extracted from Religio-Political Thought of Syed Abul Hassan Ali Nadwi

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

‎“Constantly remember Allah in every situation, with the tongue, the heart and the actions. The person will attain Allah’s love in accordance with his remembrance of Allah.”

‎[Book: One Hundred Pieces of Advice by Ibn al-Qayyim | Pg. 9]

The believers are nothing else than brothers (in Islamic religion). So make reconciliation between your brothers, and fear Allah, that you may receive mercy (Sūrah Al Hujuraat verse 10)

And finally treat people like you would like to be treated! Before you mock them, take these two as a reminder/warning:

Ibn al-Qayyim said: “Whoever mocks his brother for a sin they repented from will not die until he himself falls into the same sin.” [Madaarij vol 1 p. 177]

Ibn al-Qayyim: Allāh is towards you as you are towards Him and His servants. [al-Wabil, p. 80]

⚠Our Salaf at the time of Earthquake

It is authentically reported that 'Umar ibn 'Abdul-'Aziz رحمه الله, when there was an earthquake during his era, wrote to his agents in the different countries and ordered them to tell the Muslims to make Tawbah to Allāh, humble themselves to Him and seek His Forgiveness from their sins.

[📚Majmoo' Fatawa of Ibn Baz (2/129)]

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وَمَا أَصَابَكُمْ مِنْ مُصِيبَةٍ فَبِمَا كَسَبَتْ أَيْدِيكُمْ وَيَعْفُو عَنْ كَثِيرٍ

And whatever of misfortune befalls you, it is because of what your hands have earned. And He pardons much.

[📚Surah Ash-Shūrah verse 30 | Translator: Muhsin Khan]

✒ Check And Verify Before You Post A Ḥadeeth

Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallāhu-ʿAlaihi Wa Sallam said:

إن الذي يكذب علي يُبنى له بيت في النار

“Indeed, the one who lies upon me has a HOME built for him in the HELLFIRE.”

● [مختصر صحيح الجامع الصغير برقم ١٦٩٤ ، صححه الألباني]

Bidath

Ibn al-Qayyim [رحمه الله] said:

❝The graves of the evil ones from the people of Sunnah are gardens from the gardens of Paradise. The graves of the worshippers from the people of Bida are trenches from the trenches of the Hell fire. Adhering to the Sunnah expiates major sins just as opposing the Sunnah cancels out good deeds. If the people of Sunnah are held back due to their actions then they are strengthened with their beliefs [Aqeedah]. If the people of Bida are strengthened due to their actions then they are held back due to their beliefs [ Aqeedah ] .❞

[I’laam al-Muwaqaeen Un Rabil Alameen, (3/329) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath al-Anbiyya]

Some words of wisdom:

"ما لم تنصر الحق، فأنت حتما مع الباطل"
"Unless you stand up for what is right, you're inevitably on the side of falsehood"

(Staying neutral in the face of injustice is akin to complicity or tacit approval.There are various ways in which we can serve the cause of justice and it's up to us to identify how best we can use our potential)

"The Poor Man Whose Name Lives in Thousands of Hadiths"

Who was this poor man who only lived with Rasulullah Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wasallam for three years - but today his name is immortalized in thousands of hadiths throughout the world?

That is the story of Abu Hurairah radhiyallahu 'anhu.

Abu Hurairah came to Medina without wealth, without family, and without a place to shelter. He arrived late after the Khaibar War, when many other friends already had stories of struggle. Meanwhile, he only brought a piece of clothing... and a mountain of determination in his chest.

He lived in Shuffah—a small veranda behind the Nabawi Mosque which housed the poor. People who don't have a home, but have a big dream: heaven.

The days are full of hunger.
Sometimes he held his stomach until his body almost collapsed. Sometimes he tied stones to his stomach to keep it strong.

But every time the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) went out to teach, Abu Hurairah was always there. Sitting in the front row, listening with a fully awake heart.

In just three years, he managed to memorize more than 5,000 hadith.

Without a pen.
Without paper.
With only his memory—and an unwavering love.

While other companions were trading, waging jihad, or taking care of their families, Abu Hurairah memorized every sentence of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as if the world stopped turning every time he spoke.

When the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) died, Abu Hurairah wept—not only because he had lost a prophet, but because he realized:
the voice he had memorized was no longer in this world.

He said through tears:
"I am not crying because he is gone.
I am crying because the knowledge that once came from his tongue... is no longer heard."

From that day on, every time he narrated a hadith, tears often came to his eyes. For him, every hadith is not just knowledge—but memories, light, and wisdom that live in his heart.

Abu Hurairah lived in poverty.
But he bequeathed endless wealth:
science that today continues to be taught throughout the world.

He left no wealth behind.
However, every hadith that begins with his name is proof that Allah honors anyone who sincerely seeks knowledge.

He came to Medina empty-handed—
but return to the afterlife with radiant lips.

Because people who guard the knowledge of the Prophet sallallaahu 'Alaihi Wasallam...
will not die, even when the body has been buried.

✒ If Only You Were To Know

Prophet Muḥammad Ṣallallāhu-ʿAlaihi Wa Sallam said:

“If you knew what (reward) is for you with Allāh (for patience upon hardship); you would LOVE to be INCREASED in POVERTY and NEED.”

● [مختصر صحيح الجامع الصغير برقم ٥٢٦٥ ، صححه الألباني]

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) | Translated By Abu Hakeem Bilal Davis]