🎖For The Seekers Of Knowledge📚

• Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:

“I used to go around Hadith gatherings of different scholars and run till I was out of breath so no one would precede me. I would start my day having nothing to eat and finish it having nothing to eat. Never did Allah degrade me to take from another person, instead He provided for me in order to protect my honor. Truth is, mentioning all my experiences would take quite a while.

And here I am now and you can see what I have achieved. I will tell you the whole story in one single sentence, and that is Allah's saying:

•••وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ ۖ وَيُعَلِّمُكُمُ اللَّهُ ۗ •••
Fear Allah, and Allah shall teach you.
[Surah Al-Baqarah:282]

[Sincere Counsel To The Seekers of Sacred Knowledge, p.47]

﴾وَعَسَىٰ أَن تَكْرَ‌هُوا شَيْئًا وَهُوَ خَيْرٌ‌ لَّكُمْ﴿

Translation: But perhaps you hate a thing and it’s good for you.

Reflection: There was nothing more hated to the mother of Moosa than her son falling into the hands of the family of Fir’awn, however this manifested into a wonderful outcome and its effects were good.

Source: Taysir al-Lateef al-Manaan by Imam as-Sa’di (pp. 322-326)

#Earthquake
Ibn al-Qayyim said:
“Allah sometimes gives the earth permission to
breathe, which is when major earthquakes
happen;
- this makes people feel scared,
- so they repent,
- give up sins,
- pray to Allah and feel regret [for their sins].
When there had been an earthquake, some of
the Salaf said: your Lord is warning you.
When Medeenah was struck by an earthquake,
‘Umar Ibn al-Khattaab addressed the people
and said:
If there is another earthquake, I will not stay
here with you.”
[“Miftah Dar al-Sa’ada”, 1/221]

Leave Whatever Disturbs The Peace Of Your Heart

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : البر ما سكنت إليه النفس ، واطمأن إليه القلب ، والإثم ما لم تسكن إليه النفس ، ولم يطمئن إليه القلب ، وإن أفتاك المفتون.

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Righteousness is that which brings serenity to the soul and satisfaction to the heart and the sin is that which neither settles with the soul nor brings satisfaction to the heart even if the judges (Muftīs) give verdict (of its permissibility) to you.”

● [الترغيب والترهيب ٣\٢٣ ، وصححه الألباني]

► Dua for asking forgiveness

✦Ibn Masud (رضي الله عنه) said: The Messenger of Allah {ﷺ} said,

❝He who says: "Astaghfir ullah-alladhila ilaha illa Huwal-Haiyul-Qayyumu, wa atubu ilaihi
(I seek the forgiveness of Allah, there is no true god except Allah, the Ever-Living, the Self-Subsisting, and I turn to Him in repentance),"

His sins will be forgiven even if he should have runaway from the battlefield (while he was engaged infighting for the Cause of Allah).❞

[📚 Abu Dawud, At-Tirmidhi and Al-Hakim (on conditions of Al-Bukhari and Muslim for accepting Hadith) :Riyaadus’ Saaliheen 1874]

● It was narrated from Ibn 'Umar (رضي الله عنه) that the Messenger of Allah (pbuh) {ﷺ} said:

❝Whoever takes the wrongdoer's side in a dispute or supports wrongdoing, he will remain subject to the wrath of Allah until he gives it up.❞

[📒Sunan Ibn Majah, The Chapters on Rulings,
Book Number :13, Hadith Number :2409 - Hasan]

*The blessings are with your Elders(in Knowledge) by Shaykh Sulayman Ruhayli

What a tremendous admonition and advice!

Sitting with the Righteous

 

ابن القيم رحمه الله: مجالسة الصالحين تحولك من ستة إلى ستة:
1- من الشك إلى اليقين.
2- ومن الرياء إلى الإخلاص.
3- ومن الغفلة إلى الذكر.
4- ومن الرغبة في الدنيا إلى الرغبة في الآخرة.
5- ومن الكبر إلى التواضع.
6- ومن سوء النية إلى النصيحة.

 

Ibnul Qayyim May Allah have mercy on him said:

Sitting with the righteous transforms you by taking you away from six (characteristics) and replacing them with six others.

(It replaces)

1⃣. Doubt with certainty
2⃣. Showing off with Sincerity
3⃣. headlessness with remembrance
4⃣. Desire for the Dunya with the desire for the hereafter.
5⃣. Pride with Humility
6⃣. Bad intentions with Sincere Advice

📚 al-Fawaaid by Ibn ul-Qayyim


Taken from : http://www.masjidalimammuqbil.co.uk/blog/

Accepting food from unislamic celebrations.

Question:

1.- our kuffar neighbors and colleagues give us food on their holiday periods such as birthdays and christmas. Is it permissible for us to accept it and eat it?

2.- My non practicing Muslim in laws celebrate birthdays. They share with us slices of that cake. Can we eat from it?

Zaynab El-Kateb:
There is a Fatwa from sheikh Jamal Al Harethy, abu Forayhan, regarding your question:

If the food was on a kufr or Bidah occasion, then you should refuse taking it. Because taking it means your approval. So of course in case of christmas, it is Haram to share or to congratulate in any way.

You should also refuse to take during the bidah of celebrating the Prophet's peace be upon him birth, you have to deny these celebrations.

If it is celebrating people's birthdays, this is a lesser degree of bidah yet it is wrong. However, the sheikh says that you can take it but you still need to advise that this wrong , but it is better and more pious to refuse taking any of this food.

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Let not your smartphones distract you when you are in the company of someone

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It was narrated from Ibn `Abbaas رضي الله عنهما: The Messenger of Allaah ﷺ took a ring and put it on, then he said: ❝This distracted me from you all day, shifting my gaze from it to you (and back again).❞ Then he threw it away.

📚 [Sunan al-Nasaa’ee (5289) and Shaikh al-Albaanee said: "It is “Saheeh” as per the condition of al-Bukhaaree and Muslim", see al-Saheehah (1192). Shaikh Muqbil also graded it as “Saheeh” in Saheeh al-Musnad]

▪ This is from the teachings of the Prophet ﷺ regarding the ethics of sitting in a gathering, that a person should not be preoccupied with something which distracts him from the gathering or his guests for a long time. It is not Haraam, but this is not proper etiquette either. Then what about when he is with his parents or either one of them?

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*Many Study But Only a Few Actually Become Something – al-Khatib al-Baghdadi*

‏Shuʿayb ibn Ḥarb said; “There were 4000 of us studying ḥadīth, but none except four became apt.”

‏Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān aṭ-Ṭayālisī said; “I was once at the door of Shuʿbah – whilst the mosque was filled [with students], Shuʿbah then came out, leaned on me and said, ‘Sulaymān, do you think all of them will become scholars of ḥadīth?’ I replied ‘No.’ ‘Correct. Not even five’ [will become scholars of ḥadīth] he said. ‘Not even five!?’ I asked. ‘Yes. one of of them seeks knowledge during his youth, then when he grows up he abandons it. And one of them seeks knowledge during his youth, then when he becomes older he indulges in sin’. Abū Dāwūd Sulaymān aṭ-Ṭayālisī said: ‘he continued to mention other things’ then remarked, “I later investigated and found not even five of them became scholars.”

‏al-Firyābī said; “Sufyān ath-Thawrī said to me one day – whilst people had gathered around him, ‘Muḥammad, do you see all these people? Look how many they are! A third of them will die, a third will abandon this which you hear, and from the remaining third only a few will become highly competent .'”

‏Isrā’īl bin Yunus said; Students of ḥadīth gathered in vast numbers during the time of al-ʿAmash, and so it was said to him; “Abū Muḥammad, do you not see how numerous they are?’ al-ʿAmash replied; Do not look at their numerosity, a third of them will die, a third of them will become busy with work and from every hundred from the [remaining] third, only one will become successful.

SOURCE: al-Jāmiʿ lil-Akhlāq ar-Rāwī wa Adāb as-Sāmiʿ, al-Khaṭīb al-Baghdadī, Abū Bakr Aḥmad. Dar ibn al-Jawzī, ar-Riyadh, KSA (1433.H) pp. 72(Translator Ṣalaḥ al-Irānī)


http://dusunnah.com/article/many-study-but-only-a-few-become-students-or-scholars/

🗣 Beware of the Hypocrisy and Corruption of the Two-faced ‼️

♻ The Messenger of Allāh [ﷺ] said:

“Indeed the worst of the people are the two-faced, those who go to one group of people with one face and a different group with another.”

📚 Sahīh al-Bukhārī (3232, 5719 and 6765) and Sahīh al-Muslim (4566, 4693 and 4694)]

♻ Imām Al-Nāwawī رحمه الله said:

‘He is the one who goes to each group of people with that which will please them, so he gives them the impression that he is with them and against the other group, and his action is that of hypocrisy, lying, deceit and using trickery to uncover the secrets of each group; and it is from the prohibited sycophancy.’

📚 Fatḥ al-Bārī (10/475) | Translated by: Abū al-Ḥasan Mālik Ādam al-Akhḍar hafidhahullah

For more information pdf:

http://alrahmaniyyah.com/2016/11/05/beware-of-the-hypocrisy-and-corruption-of-the-two-faced/

A reminder benefits the believer.

It was narrated that ‘Aishah said:“While the Messenger of Allah (?) was sitting in the mosque, a woman from Muzainah (tribe) entered, trailing her garment in the mosque. The Prophet (?) said: ‘O people, tell your women not to wear their adornments and show pride in the mosque, for the Children of  were not cursed until their women wore adornments and walked proudly in their places of worship.’” {Sunan Ibn Majah Vol. 1, Book 36, Hadith 4001}


There will come a time for my people when… the mosques will be full of people but they will be empty of right guidance. (Agreed upon)

Travelling is a portion of torment. SubhanAllah.

Knowing It's In The Hands Of Allāh by Shaykh 'Abdurrazzāq al Badr حفظه الله

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5wRM_W3a5o

🎥 The Impact of The Internet on The Youth & Society

- Abu 'Abdullaah Khalif

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