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

*What should we see when looking for Marriage - Her Beauty or Her Religion ?* Answered by Shaykh Muhammad Bin Umar Bin Saalim Baazmol (Hafidhahullaah)

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,
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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]

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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]

Ibn al-Qayyim Rahimahullahu Ta'ala 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 Madeenah was struck by an earthquake, ‘Umar ibn al-Khattaab (may Allah be pleased with you) addressed the people and said: ‘If there is another earthquake, I will not stay here with you.’”

[Miftah Dar al-Sa’ada (1/221)

The Noble Scholar Shaykh Muhammad bin Sālih Al-'Uthaymīn رحمه الله stated:

"Be firm and do not change due to the abundance of attacks against you or the revilement of your speech so long as you are upon the truth. Be firm, for it's not possible for the truth to be budged."

[Sharh An-Nūniyyah 3/270]

Translated by Abu Yusuf Khaleefah hafidahullah

‘Before the coming of the Hour there will be fitnahs like patches of dark night. A person shall awaken in the morning a believer but by the evening become a disbeliever, or in the evening be a believer but by morning become a disbeliever; and people will sell their religion in order to acquire some portion of the world.’

Al-Tirmidhi, no.2197. The hadith was graded hasan in al-Albani, Silsilat al-Ahadith al-Sahihah (Riyadh: Maktabah al-Ma‘arif, 1995), no.810.

Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzan حفظه الله ورعاه said:

‎"Whoever does not follow the Book (the Qur'aan), nor the Sunnah, nor the evidences, then they only follow what their own souls desire."

‎[إفادة المستفيد في شرح تجريد التوحيد ص٣٣]

The Foundation of Islam

Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal said, the foundation of Islam are based on three hadith:

- The hadith of Umar,
"Actions are only by intentions"

- The hadith of A’aisha,
"Whoever innovates in this affair of ours (the religion) that which is not from it then it is rejected"

- The hadith of Nu’maan Ibn Basheer,
"The Halaal is clear and the haraam is clear"

— Jami’ al Ulum wal Hikam Pg.2

'Abdullāh Ibn Shawdhab said: "It is from the blessing of Allāh on a youth who has became religious that he befriends a practitioner of Sunnah, so that he encourages him to practise it."

● [اللالكائي في شرح اصول الائتواد
اهل السنة ١/٦٠/٣١]

Saalih Bin Mihraan Ash-Shaybaani (rahimahullaah) said:

”Every workman is not be able to carry out his work except with tools; and the tools of Islam is knowledge.”

[Source: Quoted by Shaikh Abdullaah Al-Bukhaari in Maqaalaat Ash-Shar-iyyah page 23; and its original source is found in Tabaqaat Al-Muhadditheen Bi-Asbahaan 2/216]
https://masjidfurqan.co.uk/2014/08/11/every-workman-saalih-bin-mihraan/
pdf (arabic): المقالات الشرعية - المجموعة الأولى, الشيخ عبد الله البخاري
https://www.ajurry.com/vb/showthread.php?t=45414

The Lucrative Brother

It is reported that Bilāl b. Saʿd – Allāh have mercy on him – said:

A brother who, whenever you meet him, points out to you one of your faults (for you to correct yourself) is better for you than a brother who, whenever you meet him, puts a dīnār (money) in your hand.

Abū Bakr Al-Daynūrī, Al-Mujālasah wa Jawāhir Al-ʿIlm no. 1428.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/sayingsofthesalaf/88

Students of knowledge of the past

Ibn Qutaibah رحمه الله said: "In the past, a student of knowledge would listen to learn, and learn to act, and gain understanding of the religion in order to benefit himself and others. But now it has become such that they listen (only) in order to accumulate, and they accumulate (only) in order to be mentioned, and they memorise in order to overcome (others) and boast."

‎● [اختلاف اللفظ صحفة ١٨]

Ibn Rajab al-Ḥanbāli رحمه الله said:

"And from the greatest of voluntary deeds that brings you closer to Allāh is abundantly reciting Qur'ān, listening to it, pondering upon it and understanding it."

‎● [جامع العلوم والحكم ٢/٣٤٢]

Standing Out Firmly With Justice

Shaykh Rabee Bin Hadi Al-Madkhali [حفظه الله] said:

«يجب أن نربي أنفسنا على قول الحق ، وقبل ذلك على البحث عن الحق ، فتقف إلى جانب الحق ، وتكون قواماً بالقسط ، شهيداً لله ، ولو على نفسك أو الوالدين والأقربين.»

❝It is obligatory that we educate and train ourselves upon speaking the truth, but before that, is to search for the truth.

You should stand on the side of the truth, standing out firmly with justice, witnesses for Allaah even if it is against your own-self or your parents and close relatives. ❞

[Al-Majmoo Ar-Raiq, (Page: 21) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath al-Anbiyya]