Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaimīn [رحمه الله] said:

❝It is only right that a person be optimistic, feeling happy about the good he sees [in things]; and he should not look at the life lying ahead of him in this world as dark and dismal so that he becomes weary [of life] and loses hope.❞

[Sharḥ Riyaḍ al-Ṣāliḥīn, (4/115-116) | Translated By Mikail ibn Mahboob Ariff]

Imaam Ibnul Qayyim (rahimahullaah) said:

Hammaad Bin Zayd said, ”I said to Ayyoub (As-Sakhtiyaanee): Is there more knowledge today or in the past?” So he (Ayyoub) said: ”There is more speech today and more knowledge in the past.”

[Al-Fawaa-id, page 104]

Why Aren't We Striving Against #GreatestOppression?

#VoiceAgainstSHIRK

► PROPHET MUHAMMAD (ﷺ) said:
Oppression is of three types:
Oppression that Allah does not forgive,
Oppression that He does forgive, and
Oppression that he holds off on.
1) As for the oppression that he does not forgive, then that is polytheism (Shirk), as Allah says:
{QURAN 31:13 Indeed, association [with him] is great injustice.}
2) And as for the oppression that he forgives, then this is the oppression of the servants of themselves in what is between them and their Lord.
3) And as for the oppression that Allah holds off on, then this is the oppression of the servants to each other until they work it out between themselves.

(SAHIH AL JAAMI Hadith #3961)
(AS SILSILAH AS SAHIHAH Hadith #1927)
(MUSNAD AHMAD Hadith #26073)
(MUSTADRAK LIL HAKIM Hadith #8717)
(SHOUBUL IMAAN LIL BAIHAQI Hadith #7069)

➨ QURAN 4:48
Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills.
And he who associates others with Allah has certainly fabricated a tremendous sin.

➨ QURAN 4:116
Indeed, Allah does not forgive association with Him, but He forgives what is less than that for whom He wills.
And he who associates others with Allah has certainly gone far astray.

➨ QURAN 5:72
Indeed, he who associates others with Allah - Allah has forbidden him Paradise, and his refuge is the Fire.
And there are not for the wrongdoers any helpers.

➨ QURAN 39:65
And it was already revealed to you (Muhammad ﷺ) and to those before you that if you should associate [anything] with Allah, your work would surely become worthless, and you would surely be among the losers.

‘Umar ibn Khattab رضي الله عنه

"When you love, do not love like a child who becomes obsessed with something he loves. And when you hate, do not hate to the point where you want to see someone be destroyed."

*[Imam Bukhari Book of Muslim Manners (1322)*

It was narrated that Abu Usaid, Malik bin Rabi'ah, said:
"While we were with the Prophet(ﷺ), a man from the Banu Salamah came to him and said: " O messenger of Allah, is there anyway of honoring my parents that I can still do for them after they die?' He said: "Yes offering the funeral prayer for them, praying for forgiveness for them, fulfilling their promises after their death, honoring their freinds and upholding the ties of kinship which you would not have were it nor for them.'"
[Sunan Ibn Majah ]

حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ مُحَمَّدٍ، حَدَّثَنَا عَبْدُ اللَّهِ بْنُ إِدْرِيسَ، عَنْ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ بْنِ سُلَيْمَانَ، عَنْ أَسِيدِ بْنِ عَلِيِّ بْنِ عُبَيْدٍ، مَوْلَى بَنِي سَاعِدَةَ عَنْ أَبِيهِ، عَنْ أَبِي أُسَيْدٍ، مَالِكِ بْنِ رَبِيعَةَ قَالَ بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ عِنْدَ النَّبِيِّ ـ صلى الله عليه وسلم ـ إِذْ جَاءَهُ رَجُلٌ مِنْ بَنِي سُلَيْمٍ فَقَالَ يَا رَسُولَ اللَّهِ أَبَقِيَ مِنْ بِرِّ أَبَوَىَّ شَىْءٌ أَبَرُّهُمَا بِهِ مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِهِمَا قَالَ ‏ "‏ نَعَمْ الصَّلاَةُ عَلَيْهِمَا وَالاِسْتِغْفَارُ لَهُمَا وَإِيفَاءٌ بِعُهُودِهِمَا مِنْ بَعْدِ مَوْتِهِمَا وَإِكْرَامُ صَدِيقِهِمَا وَصِلَةُ الرَّحِمِ الَّتِي لاَ تُوصَلُ إِلاَّ بِهِمَا ‏"‏ ‏.‏

Grade : Hasan (Darussalam)
Reference : Sunan Ibn Majah 3664
In-book reference : Book 33, Hadith 8
English translation : Vol. 5, Book 33, Hadith 3664

⚠ Alī Ibn Abee Tālib رضي الله عنه said:

“This world is like a snake, soft to touch, yet filled with poison.” [Kitāb Az-Zuhd (No. 164)]

Abu Al-Ujili said: I entered upon a man who was dying, so he said to me: “The life of this world deceived me, until all my days were gone.”

[Mawaa’iz lbn Al-Jawzi 1/5]

Sleeping:

“The BEST TYPE of SLEEP is for one to sleep on his RIGHT SIDE.”

[Ibn Qayyim’s Prophetic Medicine p. 304]

“Sleeping on the LEFT SIDE regularly, HARMS the HEART.”

[Ibn Qayyim’s Prophetic Medicine p. 304]

“SLEEPING on the STOMACH is the WORST WAY to sleep.”

[Ibn Qayyim’s Prophetic Medicine p. 305]

“Sleeping on the LEFT SIDE makes the HEART COMFORTABLE and thus the PERSON OVER SLEEPS.”

[Ibn Qayyim’s Prophetic Medicine p. 308]

Hasan Al-Basrî رحمه الله said:

"Although the Qur'ân was revealed so that people would act upon its laws and principles, the people take the recitation as a deed in itself."

[Talbîs Iblîs p. 135]

Sh Muhammad Baazmool said: When it’s the case that Ilm vanishes when ulama die, & when it’s the case that violating rights of an Aalim prevents [others from] his Ilm, then violating rights of an Aalim is like disappearance of his Ilm when he dies.
في قلب الحدث مقالات متنوعة p. 47-48
https://twitter.com/IslamStoke/status/954824255006478337

*Ibn Sireen on Sin: The biggest sinners always mention other people’s sins*

Hisham ibn Hassan reported: Muhammad ibn Sireen, may Allah have mercy on him, said, “We used to say that the people with the most faults are the quickest of them to mention the faults of others.”

Source: al-Ṣamt li Ibn Abī Dunyā 138

عَنْ هِشَامِ بْنِ حَسَّانَ عَنْ مُحَمَّدِ بْنِ سِيرِينَ رحمه الله قَالَ كُنَّا نُحَدِّثُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ خَطَايَا أَفْرَغُهُمْ لِذِكْرِ خَطَايَا النَّاسِ

138 الصمت لابن أبي الدنيا

Ibn Qayyim (rahimahullah) said:

“Some people have a nature similar to the one of pigs, which doesn’t appreciate good food and rushes towards faeces if a man relives himself. Many people are like this. If they hear about or see with their own eyes your good qualities, even if these exceed your flaws by far, it doesn’t please them, they don’t pay attention to it nor do they mention it to other people. But if they see the least mistake in talk, or action, they react immediatly and wholeheartedly.

[Madaarij As-Salikin

1/435]

Shaykh Muqbil bin Haadee (Rahimahullah):
The affliction that the Muslims are being tested by is their being ignorant about their Religion. So anyone that memorizes some ayaat and ahaadeeth and then begins to talk about it, especially if he has some eloquence in speech, people say: “This is a Shaikh.”
All praise be to Allaah, the reality of the matter became clear, as it is said:
“If you hear the eloquent one speaking, do not give yourself into him
For this unnatural (way of speaking) is something artificial
Be pleased with taking knowledge and understanding, and
His eloquent speech will come to an end without any fight.”
https://abdurrahman.org/2014/09/29/this-is-suroorism-so-beware-of-it-shaykh-muqbil-bin-haadee/

Shaykh Al-Anjaree:

🔵

Apologising is:

A straightforward & well mannered acknowledgment of the mistake, with restricting ones own desires & submitting oneself to the Truth, without seeking to be raised; not making excuses for oneself, not playing with words, & not speaking coldly.

(https://twitter.com/aburemlah/status/985624060133625856?s=03)

Shaikh Ibn al-`Uthaymeen رحمه الله said:

❝Do not be someone who is (physically present but mentally) missing (or absent) from his family, neither enjoining upon them what is good and righteousness, nor forbidding them from evil and corruption.❞

[الضياء اللامع 1/193]

Ministers of the world, specifically India, even if you borrow 1% justice from Umar, you will rule hearts!

When a famine struck Madinah during the reign of Umar (may Allah be pleased with him), he swore that he would not eat ghee, yogurt or milk until all the people could afford to have these things. Then some ghee and yogurt reached the marketplace and a slave bought them for 'Umar for forty (dirhams). He came to 'Umar and said:

يا أمير المؤمنين ، قد أبر اللَّه يمينك وعظم أجرك ، قدم السوق وطب من لبن وعكة من سمن ، فابتعتهما بأربعين

"0' Commander of the Faithful, Allah has fulfilled your oath and made your reward great. Some ghee and yogurt came to the marketplace and I bought them for you for forty (dirhams)." 'Umar said,

أغليت بهما فتصدق بهما ، فإني أكره أن آكل إسرافا

"You paid too much for them. Give them in charity, for I do not like to eat in an extravagant manner." And 'Umar said,
كيف يعنيني شأن الرعية إذا لم يمسسني ما مسهم ؟

"How can I be concerned for the people if I do not suffer what they suffer?"

- Tarikh al Tabari 2/508

Shaykh Muhammad Nāsir al-Dīn al-Albānī:

The disease afflicting the Muslim youth in our times is that when they acquire some new knowledge, they raise their heads (arrogantly) thinking that they know everything, and they are overcome with self-amazement. We fear that they resemble the statement of the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ:

“There are three destructive things: Being stingy, following one’s desires and being amazed with one’s own opinion.”

[Silsilat al-Hudā wa-al-Nūr 861

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymīn (رحمه الله):

“Whoever carries tales about others to you will carry tales about you to others so beware of tale carrying for there is no good in it.”

[Ta’līq ‘alā Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim (v. 1 p. 315)]
https://twitter.com/_MuSunnah/status/936214278574616576

"The veil on her head is better than this world and that is in it."

Shaykh Ibn Bāz on Fasting the Second Half of Shaʿbān

Shaykh ʿAbd Al-Azīz b. ʿAbdillāh b. Bāz - Allāh have mercy on him - was asked about the ḥadith that says you should not fast in the second half of Shaʿbān until Ramaḍān starts (Tirmidhī et al, graded authentic by Al-Albānī), and the other āḥādīth that say the Prophet ﷺ fasted all of Shaʿbān (Abū Dāwūd) or most of it.

He replied:

In the name of Allāh, most gracious, most merciful.

The Prophet ﷺ used to fast all of Shaʿbān and sometimes leave only a few days, as is confirmed in the ḥadīth reported by ʿĀʾishah and Umm Salamah. As for the ḥadīth which contains a prohibition of fasting after half of Shaʿbān, it is ṣaḥīḥ, as brother ʿAllāmah Shaykh Nāṣir Al-Dīn Al-Albānī said. What is meant in this ḥadīth is the prohibition of starting to fast after the first half. As for whoever fasts most or all of the month, then he has achieved the Sunnah (in this regard). And Allāh is the one who grants success.

Majmūʿ Al-Fatāwā 15:384-385

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله

“O you who spends his lifetime in disobeying his Rabb! No one amongst your enemies is as wicked to you than you are to yourself.”

(al-Fawaaid (English Translation), page 107)

#Ruling on praying with pant legs rolled up

Narrated by Ibn `Abbas:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said,

أُمِرْتُ أَنْ أَسْجُدَ عَلَى سَبْعَةٍ، لاَ أَكُفُّ شَعَرًا وَلاَ ثَوْبًا "I have been ordered to prostrate on seven (bones) and not to tuck up the hair or garment." [Sahih al-Bukhari 816, Chapter: One should not tuck up his garment in As-Salat (the prayer)] *NOTE: The verb كف means tuck, roll up An-Nawawi said:
The scholars are unanimously agreed that it is not allowed to pray with the garment, sleeves and so on rolled up. … All of that is not allowed according to scholarly consensus; it is makrooh in the same that it is discouraged, so if a person prays like that he has done something wrong but his prayer is still valid. Abu Ja‘far Muhammad ibn Jareer at-Tabari quoted as evidence scholarly consensus. Ibn al-Mundhir narrated that the one who does that should repeat his prayer, and he narrated this view from al-Hasan al-Basri. End quote.
It says in Tuhfat al-Minhaaj, 2/161-162:
It is makrooh for the one who is praying to tuck up his hair by putting it together or putting it under his headgear, or to tuck up his garment, such as rolling up his sleeve or hem. End quote.
Based on that, tucking or rolling the pants up is makrooh when praying. *NOTE: This applies to Men.

And for a mens trouser:

Shaykh ‘Abd ar-Rahmaan as-Suhaym said, "If the pants or trousers come below the ankle, then they must be lifted up, in prayer or otherwise. In fact it is not permissible for them to touch the ankle because the Prophet (blessings and peace of Allah be upon him) said: “The izaar (lower garment) should come to mid-calf, but if you insist it may come lower, and if you insist it may come to the bottom of the calf, but it should not touch the ankles.” Narrated by Imam Ahmad and an-Nasaa’i.
Tucking up the pants does not come under this prohibition because lifting the izaar away from the ankles is a shar‘i requirement; in fact it is obligatory, whereas the prohibition on tucking up the garment or the hair signifies that it is makrooh (disliked)." End quote