Good company:

‘Abdullaah ibn Shawthab said: “It is from the bounties of Allaah upon the young man who becomes keen on practice and worship that he finds a friend who will help him in adhering to the Sunnah.”

(Al-Laalakaa’i (60/1))
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'Lying and Iman'

Abu Bakr As-Siddiq رضي الله عنه said:

"Beware of lying, for lying is far removed from iman."

📚 [Abu Bakr Al-Kallal, Al-Sunnah no. 1467, 1470; Al-Bayhaqi, Shuʿab Al-Iman no. 4463]

#muhasabah #muraqabah

The Companions and those who followed them upon righteousness did not use to praise themselves.

Therefore, a Walee (righteous person) should not praise himself, saying: “I am one of the Awliyaa’”, or “I am a Walee”, or “I have such-and-such status”. He should not praise himself.

Rather, he should see himself as someone falling short (in fulfilling his duties).

Allaah تعالى says in Surah al-Mu’minoon while describing the characteristics of the Believers of this Ummah, He تعالى says:

وَالَّذِينَ يُؤْتُونَ مَا آتَوا وَّقُلُوبُهُمْ وَجِلَةٌ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ رَاجِعُونَ

{And they who give what they give (in charity) while their hearts are full of fear, because they are sure to return to their Lord (for reckoning).}

[Surah al-Mu’minoon (23): 60]

Umm al-Mu’mineen, Aaishah رضي الله عنها - as reported in al-Musnad (of Imaam Ahmad) and others - asked the Prophet ﷺ about the meaning of this Aayah. She said: “O Messenger of Allaah! Is he the person who commits fornication, steals, murders, while he also fears the punishment?" He ﷺ said: “No, O daughter of al-Siddeeq. Rather, he is a person who performs the Salaah, Fasts, and gives charity while he fears that (His Lord) will not accept it (from him).”

[Sunan al-Tirmidhee (3175), Sunan Ibn Maajah (4198), Musnad Ahmad (25263, 25705) and graded as “Saheeh li ghairihee” by Shaikh al-Albaanee. See al-Saheehah (162)]

And there are numerous Aathaar (narrations) from the Companions in this regards which point to this noble characteristic.

Abdullaah Ibn Abee Mulaikah said: “I met more than thirty Companions (of the Prophet ﷺ) and each one of them was afraid of becoming a hypocrite.”

[Saheeh al-Bukhaaree, vol. 1, Book 2, chapter 36]

Abdullaah Ibn Umar said: “If I come to know that (Allaah تعالى) has accepted from me even one Sajdah that is better for me (and more beloved) than the Dunya and what is in it.”

[al-Tamheed of Ibn Abd al-Barr (4/256)]

They did not use to ascribe purity for themselves.

Al-Hasan al-Basree used to say: “A believer combines between doing good deeds and fear [that his good deeds might not be accepted], whereas a hypocrite combines between evil deeds and hope [that he will be forgiven even if he did not repent].”

[Tafseer al-Tabaree (17/68)]

A believer does good deeds and at the same time fears; fears that his good deeds will not be accepted, that it will be rejected. And this is why he strives in doing more good deeds, and acts of obedience, and the acts which will bring him closer to Allaah.

But he does not ascribe purity for himself. Rather, he only hopes that Allaah سبحانه وتعالى will accept his deeds.

Look at this remarkable example in this regards, in the story of Khaleel al-Rahmaan (Ibraaheem عليه السلام), while he is building the House (Kabah) of al-Rahmaan, at the instructions of al-Rahmaan سبحانه وتعالى.

Allaah تعالى says:

{And (remember) when Ibraaheem and (his son) Ismaaeel were raising the foundations of the House (the Kabah at Makkah), (saying): “Our Lord! Accept (this service) from us. Verily! You are the All-Hearer, the All-Knower.”}

[Surah al-Baqarah (2): 127]

The scholars (the exegesis) have said in their books of Tafseer, he عليه السلام used to say this Du`aa with each stone. With each stone that he used to place during construction, he used to ask Allaah to accept it from him.

Ibn Katheer رحمه الله reported in his Tafseer, in the explanation of this Aayaah, the statement of Wuhaib Ibn al-Ward.

Wuhaib Ibn al-Ward was one of the pious predecessors, when he read this Aayaah, he began to weep. He said: “The Khaleel of al-Rahmaan, building the House of al-Rahmaan, at the instructions of al-Rahmaan, and he (Ibraaheem) still feared that it will not be accepted from him!”

The Evil Impact Of Sins Upon The Heart

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (d.751AH) رحمه الله said:

"It is sufficient for the sinner as a punishment that the veneration & awe of Allāh جل جلاله is removed from his heart."

[Ad-Daa' wad-Dawaa' p.171.Daar 'Aalim al-Fawaaid print, 2nd edition]

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إِنَّ شَانِئَكَ هُوَ ٱلۡأَبۡتَرُ
"Certainly, the one who bears hatred towards you is the one severed from all good."
[Soorah al-Kawthar]

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Ibn al-Qayyim, in Al-Fawā'id said:

❝So show no concern for the praise of the one whose praise cannot adorn you in any way, nor for the blame of one whose blame can do nothing to disfigure or dishonor you. And seek the praise of the One in whose praise is all honor and in whose blame is all disgrace.❞

●[Al-Jawziyyah, Ibn Qayyim. Al-Fawā'id. Riyadh: Maktabah Al-Rushd, 2001 (1422 H), 221 | Translated By Mikail Ibn Mahboob Ariff]

Maymun b. Mihran Describes The Salaf He Met
It is reported that Maymūn b. Mihrān – Allāh have mercy on him – said:

I have met men in front of whom I would be ashamed to speak, and I have met men who used to say nothing but the truth, or be silent. And I have met men who had never seen the sky properly, out of fear of their Lord.

Abū Bakr Al-Daynūrī, Al-Mujālasah wa Jawāhir Al-ʿIlm article 2039.

https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/topic/manners-and-conduct/

Distributing Islamic Books

Shaykh AbdulAziz bin Baz -Rahimahullaah- said:
“توزيع الكتب والأشرطة النافعة الصادرة من علماء السنة من أفضل القربات، لأن ذلك من نشر العلم والدعوة إلى الخير”.

‘Distributing beneficial books and cassettes authored by the scholars of the Sunnah is from the best ways of coming closer to Allaah. That is because it is distributing knowledge and inviting to goodness.’
[Fatawa 24/57]

‏قال ابن باز:
“توزيع الكتب والأشرطة النافعة الصادرة من علماء السنة من أفضل القربات، لأن ذلك من نشر العلم والدعوة إلى الخير”.
الفتاوى ٥٧/٢٤
https://followingthesunnah.com/2018/09/26/scholars-and-knowledge/

Knowledge and Manners...

Abu Zakariyya Al 'Anbari said:

"Knowledge without manners is like fire without wood. And manners without knowledge is like a soul without body."

●[Al Jaami' Li Akhlāq Al Rāwī p.12]

🔘 How to identify what your state will be like in the grave?

🎓 Ibn al-Qayyim said:

❝The state of a person in the grave will be like the state of the heart in the chest; in bliss or facing punishment, imprisoned or roaming freely. If you want to know what your state in the grave will be like, then look at the state of your heart in your chest.

💠 If the your heart is filled with joy and tranquility, and is pure (clean from pride, envy and other evils) - then by the Will of Allaah, the same will be your state in the grave. And it's opposite is also true.

💠 This is why you find that a person - who is obedient (to Allaah), and has good manners (with the creation), and who is forgiving (and kind) - to be the most tranquil (and at rest).

💠 Faith takes away distress, removes the grief, and it (Faith) is the coolness of the eyes of the one upon Tawheed (monotheism), and (the means of) comfort for the worshipers.

➡️ Whoever is preoccupied with Tasbeeh (saying: Sub-haan Allaah), his private affairs will be taken care of.

➡️ And whoever is preoccupied with al-Hamd (saying: alhamdulillaah), he will be given bounties one after the other.

➡️ And whoever is preoccupied with al-Istighfaar, the locked (doors) will be opened for him.❞

📚 [al-Daa' wal-Dawaa' (1/187-188)]

Ibn Qayyim رحمه الله said: "Whoever loves this worldly life, will estimate its value, he will make himself a slave to it and it will humiliate him. And whoever neglects it, will notice his great value, it will humiliate itself for him."

‎● [الفوائد صحفة ١٦٠]

Shaykh ul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:

“You should not look at what a person used to do [in the past], rather you should look at what kind of person they are today. The one who gets bogged down about people’s pasts, is just like Iblees who said to Allāh, ‘You created me from fire and you created him from clay””

al-Minhāj | Volume 2 | Page 430

Translation: Authentic Quotes

Al-Ḥasan said, "Knowledge is of two types: knowledge that is superficial utterance upon the tongue, that is Allāh's proof against the children of Ādam; and knowledge that takes root in the heart and that is beneficial knowledge."

Dārimī #375 and ibn Abī Shaybah, vol. 13, p.235 and it is ṣaḥīḥ.

Al-Ḥāfiẓ ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbali, The Excellence of the Knowledge, page 58, Dār us-Sunnah Publishers Birmingham

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The Weapon of the Lowly

Abū Ja'far al-Qurashī said:

"It used to be said: The weapon of the lowly person is vile speech."

📖 Source: Al-Hilm by Ibn Abid-Dunyā (pg. 118)

Trans. by Raha Batts

The Prophet, sallaAllahu alayhi wa salam, said:
"The parable of myself and the people is that of a man who lit a fire. When it illuminated its surroundings, the moths and other creatures which are attracted to light began to fall into it. He began to pull them out of the fire, but they overwhelmed him and continued to fall into it. I am the one pulling you away from the fire, but you keep going headlong into it."

- Sahih al-Bukhari (6002) -

Make marriages Religious Event,
Not
Social Event.
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Fuḍayl b. 'Iyāḍ: “Whoever sees from his brother an evil and laughs in his face, then he has betrayed him.”

‎● [المجالسة وجواهر العلم ٥\١١٥]

BRACES❌TATTOO❌
REMOVING HAIR FROM EYEBROWS❌

Narrated 'Alqamah that Abdullah Bin Mas'ud radiAllahu anhu said,

"Allah azzawajaal curses those ladies who practise tattooing and those who get themselves tattooed, and those ladies who get their hair removed from their eyebrows and faces except the beard and moustache, and those who make artificial spaces between their teeth in order to look more beautiful whereby they change Allah's creation."
His saying reached a lady from Banu Asad, called Umm Ya'qub, who came to Abdullah and said, " I have come to know that you have cursed such-and-such (ladies)?"

He replied, "Why should I not curse these whom Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم has cursed and who are cursed in Allah's Book!"
Umm Ya'qub said, "I have read the whole Qurân, but I did not find in it what you say."
He said: " Verily, if you have read it (Qurân) you have found it.

He replied, Didn't you read " And whatsoever the Messenger salallahu 'alayhi wa sallam gives you, take it, and whatsoever he forbids you, abstain from it, " [Surah Al-Hashr 59:7 ]
She replied, "Yes, I did"
He ('Abdullah) said, "Verily, Allah's Messenger salallahu 'alayhi wa sallam forbade such things. "

She said, " But I see your wife doing these things? "
He said, "Go and watch her".
She went and watched her but could not see anything in support of her statement .
On that he ('Abdullah) said, " If my wife was as you thought, I would not keep her in my company ( I would divorce her) . "
[ Sahih Al-Bukhari, Vol. 6, Hadith No. 408]

Narrated 'Abdullah Bin Mas'ud :
Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم has cursed the lady who uses false hair.

[ See Sahih Al - Bukhari, Vol. 6, Hadith No. 409]

Alee Ibn Abee Taalib said:

“Serious matters are the best, and newly invented matters are the worst. Every newly invented matter is an innovation, and everyone who introduces something new is an innovator. The one who innovates is mislead, and no innovator introduces an innovation but he has forsaken a Sunnah”

[Al-Bidaayah Wan-Nihaayah, 7/319]