Distress, Pain & Anxiety For One Who Turns His Full Attention Towards The Affairs Of This Worldly Life Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said: “When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allaah alone, Allaah, may He be glorified, will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him; He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him, free his tongue so that it will speak only in remembrance of Him (dhikr) and cause all his faculties to work only in obedience to Him. But if a person spends his entire day with no other concern but this world, Allaah will make him bear its distress, anxiety and pain; He will leave him to sort himself out, and cause his heart to be distracted from the love of Allaah towards the love of some created being, cause his tongue to speak only in remembering people instead of remembering Allaah, and cause him to use his talents and energy in obeying and serving them. So he will strive hard, labouring like some work-animal, to serve something other than Allaah… Everyone who turns away from being a true slave of Allaah and obeying Him and loving Him will be burdened with servitude, love and obedience to some created being. Allaah says: ‘And whosoever turns away (blinds himself) from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent (Allaah), We appoint for him a shaytaan (devil) to be a qareen (intimate companion) to him.’ [al-Zukhruf 43:36].” Al-Fawaa’id, p. 159 Torontodawah.com

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The fact that you're struggling doesn't make you a burden. It doesn't make you unloveable or undesirable or underserving of care. It doesn't make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles.

Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren't always easy to be around and that's okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren't all of who you are and they certainly don't discount your worth as a human being.

The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness.

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Hajj Akbar Yaum ul Hajjil Akbar

Question: what is the meaning of the "Day of the Greatest Hajj" and the "Greatest Hajj"? Are they synonymous? Or, do they differ in meaning? Are they both in the Glorious Qur'an and authentic Sunnah (whatever is reported from the Prophet)?

Answer:

The greatest day of Hajj is the Day of Sacrifice, which is the tenth day of Dhu’l-Hijjah. Abu Dawood narrated from Ibn ‘Umar (may Allaah be pleased with him) that the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) stood up on the day of Sacrifice during the Hajj that he performed and said: “What day is this?” They said, “the Day of Sacrifice.” He said, “This is the greatest day of Hajj.” Sunan Abi Dawood, 1945; classed as saheeh by al-Albaani in Saheeh Abi Dawood, 1700.

Al-Bukhaari (369) narrated that Abu Hurayrah (may Allaah be pleased with him) said: Abu Bakr al-Siddeeq (may Allaah be pleased with him) sent me amongst the announcers to proclaim in Mina on the Day of Sacrifice, “After this year no mushrik is allowed to perform Hajj or to circumambulate the House naked.”

The Day of Sacrifice is called the greatest day of Hajj because during that night there is the standing at ‘Arafah and staying overnight in al-Mash’ar al-Haraam, and during that day there is the stoning of the Jamrah, offering the sacrifice, shaving the head, tawaaf and saa’i, which are all actions of Hajj. The day of Hajj refers to the time and the denoscription of greatest refers to the actions done at that time. The greatest day of Hajj is mentioned in the Qur’aan where Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

“And a declaration from Allaah and His Messenger to mankind on the greatest day (the 10th of Dhul-Hijjah — the 12th month of Islamic calendar)” [al-Tawbah 9:3]

And Allaah is the Source of strength.

Source: Al-Lajnah al-Daa’imah li’l-Buhooth al-‘Ilmiyyah wa’l-Ifta’, 11/221

~ Lives of the Salaf

Towards the end of time, hardly any dreams will be untrue. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “That will be because the prophethood and its effects will be so far away in time, so the believers will be given some compensation in the form of dreams which will bring them some good news or will help them to be patient and steadfast in their faith.” (al-Bukhari, 6499; Muslim, 4200)

Sayyiduna Ibn Abbas رضي الله عنهما reports, Nabee ﷺ said:

‘Whoever intends to perform Hajj, let him hasten to do so, for he may fall sick, lose his mount, or be faced with some need.’

- Sunan Ibn Majah 2883

THE FORBIDDANCE OF TAKING OATHS FREQUENTLY!

Chapter No: 62, Kitab At-Tauhid, The Book of Monotheism

Allah the Most Exalted said:

وَٱحۡفَظُوٓاْ أَيۡمَـٰنَكُمۡ‌ۚ

"And protect your oaths." (5:89)

It is narrated from Abu Hurairah رضي الله عنه that he heard Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم saying: "By swearing (the seller) may persuade the buyer to purchase the goods but he will be deprived of Allah's blessing."
(Al-Bukhari and Muslim)



It is narrated from Salman (رضي الله عنه) that Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم said: "There are three types of people whom Allah will not speak to and neither will He bless them and for them is the severe torment. They are: (i) A greying adulterer; (ii) An arrogant beggar; (iii) The one who has made Allah as his merchandise that is, he does not purchase except by swearing (by Allah), nor does he sell except by swearing (by Allah)." [(At-Tabarani reorded the above Hadith with Sahih Isnad)]



It is reported in Sahih (Muslim) from Imran bin Husain رضي الله عنه that Allah's Messenger صلى الله عليه و سلم said:

"The best of my Ummah (nation) is my generation, then those who (immediately) follow them, then those who (immediately) follow them." Imran said, "I don't know if he mentioned after his generation two (successive generations afterwards) or three." "Then there will come a generation who will be ready to witness without being requested to do so and also they will be treacherous and untrustworthy. They will take oaths for vowing but never fulfill them, and obesity will be seen in them." (i.e. due to their preoccupation in acquiring worldly ease)." (Muslim)

Also reported in Muslim and Al-Bukhari from Ibn Mas'ud (رضي الله عنه) is that the Prophet صلى الله عليه و سلم said:

"The best of mankind is my generation then those who come (immediately) after them, then those who come after them. Thereafter will come a people whose witnesses will go ahead of their oaths and the oaths will go ahead of their witnesses."

Ibrahim (Nakhyee رحمه الله) said: "In our childhood, we were beaten by our elders to stand firm on witnesses and covenants."

IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE CHAPTER
1) Admonishment to protect oaths.

2) Declaration that by swearing, the goods are sold but deprived of blessing.

3) Threat of severe punishment for those who do not buy or sell without swearing.

4) Warning that committing sin for small reasons or no reason increases the degree of sin.

5) Censure for those who swear by themselves without being asked to swear.

6) The Prophet's praise for the first three or four generations and his prophecy of what would happen after them.

7) They would bear witness without being asked to do so.

8) Predecessors of the pious Muslims used to beat their children for (needlessly) bearing witness (by Allah's Name) or by the covenant (of Allah).

Source: Kitab At-Tauhid, The Book of Monotheism. Chapter No: 62, (Page: 176-178). By Sheikh-ul-Islam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab rahimahullah.

ALWAYS CHECK ON YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

We live in a generation where families no longer sit down together as a unit. Everyone is nowadays living on his own, no phone calls, no SMS, no visiting, I mean no communication at all.

Most people do that maybe because they don't have time, or they had a misunderstanding with one of the family members, or maybe because they feel like they don't need them, family, anymore.

What you are forgetting is, that you can never make it when you are alone. Find a friend you can trust and call when things go bad with you. Find a family, it doesn't have to be all the family members, find one person you can easily reach out to whenever you experience some problems in your life.

Lonely life is good, but it's bad too when a calamity strikes. Imagine if that was your body found thereafter rotting, what do you think led to that?

No friends, no relatives, no one to talk to, living a lonely life such that your presence or absence doesn't affect the people around you.

Friends, and family, kindly also learn to check on your people, do not assume that because they are quiet they are getting it well on their side. Stress might be killing them, depression might be taking them to the grave, I mean, something wrong might be happening to them. Please stop assuming that they are okay. Reach out to them.

Think Positively

THE IMPORTANCE OF AL-WALA' WAL-BARA'

Ibn 'Abbas (radiAllahu anhu) said:

"Whoever loves for the sake of Allah, and hates for the sake of Allah, and whoever seals a friendship for His sake, or declares an enmity for His sake, will receive, because of this, the protection of Allah.

No one may taste true Iman [faith] except by this, even if his prayers and fasts are many.

People have come to build their relationships around the concerns of the world [Dunya], but it will not benefit them in any way."

[REFERENCE: "Jami' Al-Uloom wal-Hikam" (pag. 30)] [Imam Ibn Rajab]

Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:

"The dowry of the hereafter is easy; a sincere heart and a tongue that remembers (Allāh)."

[Bahr Al-Dumu’ | 84]

!‎وأن ليس للإنسان إلا ما سعى
“𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗻𝗹𝘆 𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘆 𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗼𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝘀.” (Qur’an 53:39).

This is the Sunnah of The Creator with His creation.

God does not rain down baked breads or gold and silver from the skies! Faith and Reliance on God does not mean abandoning the ‘means’.

The atheists think they can mock believers, as if we solely rely on prayers and don’t take measures! That’s not what any Muslim believes and it is not what any of the Prophets preached.

God said: [وأعدوا]
“𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗲.” (Qur’an 8:60).

The Prophet had full reliance and faith in God, but he entered the battlefield fully armoured and prepared.

Reminder: Mending Your Intentions

So my brothers! Focus on mending your intentions (islāḥ al-niyya) and refrain from showing-off to people, and let your main pillar (of support) be straight with Allāh. This was how the salaf gained elevation and fortune.

[Book: Captured Thoughts by al-Ḥāfiẓ Abū'l-Faraj Ibn al-Jawzī, p. 569 | Translated from the Original Arabic | Dār as-Sunnah Publishers]

Muhammad Ibn Bandār al-Jurjānī said to Imām Ahmad ibn Hanbal (rahimahullāh),
“It is hard upon me to say: ‘So-and-so is such-and-such and so-and-so is such-and-such’.

So Imām Ahmad replied,
‘If you remain silent and I remain silent, how will the ignorant person know what is correct and from what is false?’”

Majmū al-Fatāwā 28/231, Sharh ʿilal al-Tirmidhī 1/350.

Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen (رحمه الله) said:

❝Whenever you get an opportunity to spread the Sunnah then do so. You will have the reward of the Sunnah and the reward of the one who acts upon it until the Day of Judgement.❞

[Sharh Riyadh As-Saliheen, (4/215) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath Al-Anbiyya]
www.bidah.com < Stay away from whatever opposes the Prophetic sunnah

Whenever you feel alone, sad or misunderstood remember...

Prophet Ibrahim alayhi salam when his whole community rejected him, including his father, and placed him in a burning fire.

Prophet Yusuf alayhi salam when his own brothers sold him for a measly amount, out of jealousy and hatred for him.

Maryam alayhi salam when she had to give birth to her baby alone, and then return to her people to face them.

Hajar radiAllahu anha when she was left alone with her baby in a desert with little provision.

The mother of Musa alayhi salam when she had to cast her newborn baby into the flowing river.

Due to the taqwa and unwavering tawakkul that each of the above mentioned people had, Allah showed them a way out, even when the odds were entirely against them.

Allah Almighty cooled the fire for Ibrahim alayhi salam and he emerged unharmed.

Allah raised the status of Yusuf alayhi salam high above his brothers and granted him a position of authority and dignity.

Allah caused the newborn baby Eesa to speak and prove his mother's innocence.

The well of Zamzam sprung up from the barren land and from it was borne the city of Makkah.

The baby Musa was returned to his mother within a few hours of her casting him into the river.

So, when you feel like there is no way out, know that when you truly believe that Allah is with you, there will always be a way out. When your tawakkul in Allah is strong He will perform miracles, just as He did for those that passed before you.

PROHIBITION OF EVIL THOUGHTS REGARDING ALLAH!

Chapter No: 59, Kitab At-Tauhid, The Book of Monotheism

Allah the Almighty said:

يَظُنُّونَ بِٱللَّهِ غَيۡرَ ٱلۡحَقِّ ظَنَّ ٱلۡجَـٰهِلِيَّةِ‌ۖ يَقُولُونَ هَل لَّنَا مِنَ ٱلۡأَمۡرِ مِن شَىۡءٍ۬‌ۗ قُلۡ إِنَّ ٱلۡأَمۡرَ كُلَّهُ ۥ لِلَّهِ‌ۗ يُخۡفُونَ فِىٓ أَنفُسِہِم مَّا لَا يُبۡدُونَ لَكَ‌ۖ يَقُولُونَ لَوۡ كَانَ لَنَا مِنَ ٱلۡأَمۡرِ شَىۡءٌ۬ مَّا قُتِلۡنَا هَـٰهُنَا‌ۗ قُل لَّوۡ كُنتُمۡ فِى بُيُوتِكُمۡ لَبَرَزَ ٱلَّذِينَ كُتِبَ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡقَتۡلُ إِلَىٰ مَضَاجِعِهِمۡ‌ۖ وَلِيَبۡتَلِىَ ٱللَّهُ مَا فِى صُدُورِڪُمۡ وَلِيُمَحِّصَ مَا فِى قُلُوبِكُمۡ‌ۗ وَٱللَّهُ عَلِيمُۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ

"They thought wrongly of Allah -the thought of ignorance. They said, 'Have we any part in the affair?' Say you (O Muhammad (صلي الله عليه وسلم ): 'Indeed the affair belongs wholly to Allah.' They hide within themselves what they dare not reveal to you, saying: 'If we had anything to do with the affair, none of us would have been killed here.' Say: 'Even if you had remained in your homes, those for whom death was decreed would certainly have gone forth to the place of their death,' but that Allah might test what is in your breasts; and to Mahis[1] that which was in your hearts (sins), and Allah is All-Knower of what is in (your) breasts." (3:154)

Allah the Most Exalted said:

ٱلظَّآنِّينَ بِٱللَّهِ ظَنَّ ٱلسَّوۡءِ‌ۚ عَلَيۡہِمۡ دَآٮِٕرَةُ ٱلسَّوۡءِ‌ۖ

"Who think evil thoughts about Allah, for them is a disgraceful torment."
(48:6)

Ibn Al-Qaiyim (رحمه الله) said regarding the first verse: "The thought of ignorance is explained as meaning that Allah عز وجل will not help the Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) and his mission will soon fade away. It is also explained as meaning that the afflictions he suffered were not due to Divine Preordainment from Allah and His Wisdom. It is therefore explained as the denial of Wisdom and Decree and denial that the mission of His Messenger (صلى الله عليه و سلم) would be completed and that it would prevail over all other religions. These were the evil thoughts in the minds of Munafiqun (hypocrites) and Mushrikun (polytheists) which are mentioned in Surat Al-Fath as Su'-uz-Zan (evil thoughts). Su'-uz-Zan (evil thoughts) are against what is befitting the Most Perfect. Neither do they befit His Wisdom and Praiseworthiness nor His True Promise. Any person who thinks that the falsehood (Satan, polytheism etc.) will prevail over truth (Islamic Monotheism) continuously and it would cause truth to vanish; or who denies that things occur due to Allah's Decision and Decree; or who denies an overriding wisdom behind His Decree that is deserving of praise and thinks that such is due to an arbitrary purposeless will: these are the thoughts of those who disbelieve. Woe to those who disbelieve of the punishment of Hell.

"Most people think the worst of Allah with regards to what affects them in particular and what He does with others. No one is safe from that, except who truly knows Allah and His Names and Attributes, and the necessity of His Wisdom and Praise. Let the intelligent recipient of good advice look closely at himself in this matter and let him repent to Allah and beg His forgiveness for having harbored the worst thought about his Lord. If you were to look closely at (such individuals), you would see in him distress and annoyance with what Allah has decreed, blaming and finding fault in it, and thinking, it should rather be such and such. In this thought, some are up to lesser extent and others up to greater. Examine yourself: Are you free from such thoughts? If you are saved from it you have been saved from a great calamity. But if not, I cannot regard you as saved!"

IMPORTANT ISSUES OF THE CHAPTER

1) Explanation of the verse in Al-Imran (3:154).

2) Explanation of the verse in Surat Al-Fath (48:6).

3) Notice that the worst estimation of Allah (Su'-uz-Zan) is of uncounted variety.

4) Only the person who knows himself and (true meaning of) the Names and Attributes of Allah is safe from harboring such thoughts.

Footnote

[1] This word Mahis has three meanings: (1) to test, (2) to purify, (3) to get rid of. (Tafsir Al-Qurtubi)

Source: Kitab At-Tauhid, The Book of Monotheism. Chapter No: 59, (Page: 168-170). By Sheikh-ul-Islam Muhammad bin Abdul-Wahhab rahimahullah.

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (رحمه الله):

𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐚𝐪𝐰𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐲
𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐧𝐞’𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐝𝐮𝐧𝐲𝐚 𝐢𝐬 𝐚 𝐡𝐮𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬

𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐝𝐞𝐟𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐯𝐞
𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐚𝐪𝐰𝐚, 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐢𝐟 𝐡𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧.**

[Lataa’if al-Ma’aarif pg. 128-129]