Think positive of Allah, Allah will be more than that. But if you think bad of Him, you have only yourself to blame.

Ibn al-Qayyim (R.A) said:

This highlights the difference between thinking positively of Allah and being deceived. If thinking positively of Allah motivates a person to strive in righteous deeds and it prompts him, helps him and drives him to do such deeds, then it is sound. If it causes him to be lazy and to persist in sin, then he is deceived. Thinking positively of Allah is hope, so if a person’s hope in Allah prompts him to be obedient to Him and deters him from disobeying Him, then it is sound hope; if he justifies his negligence on the basis of hope, and his hope prompts him to be negligentand heedless, then he is deceived.

Al-Jawaab al-Kaafi (p. 24).

According to most Mufassiroon, this verse of Surah Ad-Dhuha, which we all frequently recite in our daily prayers is one of theee top most hope inspiring verses in the Quran ,if not , the number 1 verse .

Surah Ad-Dhuha, Verse 5:
وَلَسَوْفَ يُعْطِيكَ رَبُّكَ فَتَرْضَىٰ

☆ 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲, 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 (𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐢.𝐞. 𝐠𝐨𝐨𝐝) 𝐬𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐛𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥-𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝.☆

They mufassiroon conclude , after combining this verse with many narrations that Allah here promises his beloved , a reward that shall truly make him happy and contended and according to the scholars our Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم shall only be contended when his entire ummah who has not fallen info shirk , gets forgiven through his Shafa'ah ( intercession), frees out of fire, and enters eternal Paradise .

( ولسوف يعطيك ربك فترضى ) قال عطاء عن ابن عباس : هو الشفاعة في أمته حتى يرضى ، وهو قول علي والحسن . وروينا عن عبد الله بن عمرو بن العاص أن النبي - صلى الله عليه وسلم - قال : " اللهم أمتي أمتي وبكى ، فقال الله : يا جبريل اذهب إلى محمد فقل له إنا سنرضيك في أمتك ، ولا نسوءك فيهم "

Alhamdolillah !! That we are the ummah of the most beloved of Allah ,the Rahmatul lil 'aalamīn , Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم

اللهم صل وسلم وبارك عليه افضل الصلاه والسلام

Self-Confidence;

Iqbaal says in one of his Persian poems:
!‎تو شمشيري ز کام خود برون آ
‘𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮 𝘀𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗱, 𝘀𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗵𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵!’

The true potential of the sword is only realised once it’s out of its sheath.

Similarly, your will only realise your true potential once you come out of your comfort zones.

Most people will live ordinary lives unfortunately, due to lack of self-confidence.

They will not share their ideas in meetings, scared of being judged, they will not get job promotions, they will not try new things etc.

They are paralysed and chained by the shackles of fear.

Humans can achieve extraordinary things and thrive in life, IF they believe in themselves.

Self-confidence unleashes the beast within!

We all have an extraordinary energy supply within us, but it gets suppressed by our fears. Once we overcome our fears, this energy gets released.

Both chickens and eagles have wings, one remains captive to humans on the ground, the other soars the skies.

One of the best gifts we can give our children is self-confidence.

If you want to live your life to the fullest, you need to fight your fears, break this cage and soar the skies.

Trials At The End Of Time

Shaykh Sālih Ibn Fawzān Al-Fawzān حفظه الله said:

“Trials will increase and become greater as the end of time gets closer, until the major trials come, one after the other, in anticipation of the hour. A person lives through these trials and faces an increase in them towards the end of time. A person lives through trials up and until the point of death. Consequently, life may end in either a good or an evil way; we seek refuge in Allāh from the latter.”

[Trials Of Life, pg.57. Translated By Dr. ‘Abdulilāh Lahmāmi]

Via@KitabWaSunnah

Anas bin Malik narrated that the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:
"Whoever makes the Hereafter his goal, Allah makes his heart rich, and organizes his affairs, and the world comes to him whether it wants to or not. And whoever makes the world his goal, Allah puts his poverty right before his eyes, and disorganizes his affairs, and the world does not come to him, except what has been decreed for him."

Jami` at-Tirmidhi 2465

Subhaan Allah being good to parents expiates sins

Imām ash-Shāfi'ī: “Whoever does not love knowledge, then there is no goodness in him..”

● [المجموع شرح المهذب للإمام النووي ١\٤٢]

Purpose of Acquiring Knowledge and Benefits
Acquiring knowledge is important to avoid ignorance, benefit others, revive knowledge, and act upon what you know. By imparting knowledge with sincerity – that is, without any distractions – you'll find that knowledge itself offers great rewards.

May Allah ﷻ grant us tafwiq and make us among the people of ilm

(VERY SCARY AYAT)

When Allaah intends destruction for a nation, He تعالى makes the path of evil easy upon its people:

وَإِذَا أَرَدْنَا أَن نُّهْلِكَ قَرْيَةً أَمَرْنَا مُتْرَفِيهَا فَفَسَقُوا فِيهَا فَحَقَّ عَلَيْهَا الْقَوْلُ فَدَمَّرْنَاهَا تَدْمِيرًا

❝{And when We decide to destroy a town (population), We (first) send a definite order (to obey Allaah and be righteous) to those among them [or We (first) increase in number those of its population] who are given the good things of this life. Then, they transgress therein, and thus the word (of torment) is justified against it (them). Then We destroy it with complete destruction.}❞

📚 [Surah al-Israa (17): 16]

The poet Arqala al-Kalbi lived in the era of Salahudin and he was short, so he compiled this poem:

‎لا تعجبَنَّ لِقِصري عندَ طولِهِمُ
‌‏فالفخرُ لِلَّيثِ، ليس الفخرُ للجَملِ
‌‏“𝗗𝗼 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗶𝗿 𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀
𝗶𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗻𝗲𝘀𝘀,
‌‏𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻
𝗶𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲𝗹.”
(i.e. the Camel 🐫 is taller, yet the lion🦁 is king)

Dedicated to all the short … uhmm Lions 🦁

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ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES

1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural home or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house.

2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year. You are not the pillar of your department. If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue. Make your family a priority.

3. Don't chase promotions. Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't, stay positive to your personal development.

4. Avoid office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda.

5. Don't ever compete with your bosses. You will burn your fingers. Don't compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain.

6. Ensure you have a side business. Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run.

7. Save some money. Let it be deducted automatically from your payslip.

8. Invest in a business or to change a situation not to buy luxury. Buy luxury from your profit.

9. Keep your life, marriage and family private. Let them stay away from your work. This is very important.

10. Be loyal to yourself and believe in your work. Hanging around your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and your boss may finally dump you when he leaves.

11. Retire early. The best way to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today. By 40 to 50 be out.

14.Take leave days utilize them by developing yr future home or projects.. usually what you do during yr leave days is a reflection of how you'll live after retirement..

15. Start a project whilst still serving or working. Let your project run whilst at work and if it doesn't do well, start another one till it's running viably. When your project is viably running then retire to manage your business. Most people or pensioners fail in life because they retire to start a project instead of retiring to run a project.

16. Pension money is not for starting a project or buy a stand or build a house but it's money for your upkeep or to maintain yourself in good health. Pension money is not for paying school fees or marrying a young wife but to look after yourself.

17. Always remember, when you retire never be a case study for living a miserable life after retirement but be a role model for colleagues to think of retiring too.

18. Don't retire just because you are finished or you are now a burden to the company and just wait for your day to die. Retire young or whilst energetic to enjoy waking up for a cup of coffee, enjoy the sun, receive money from your business, visit nice place that you missed and spend good time with family. Those who retire late, spend about 95% of their time at work than with their family and that's why they see it difficult to spend time with their family when they retire but end looking for another job till they die. If they don't get another job, they die early.

19. Retire at your house than at government accommodation so that when you retire you can easily fit into the society that raised you. It's not easy to adjust to live in a location after spending more years at company house or at government house.

20. Never let your employment benefits make you forget about your retirement. Employment benefits are just meant to make you relax, get finished whilst time is moving. Remember when you retire no one will call you boss if you don't have a viable business.

21. Don't hate to retire because one day you will retire either voluntarily or involuntarily.

#beneficial_books

Book:
How to Achieve Happiness

Author:
Shaykh Abdur-Raḥman Naasir As-Sa'di رحمه الله

'Uthman ibn 'Affan narrated the famous statement of the Prophet (ﷺ):

[ خَيْرُكُمْ مَنْ تَعَلَّمَ الْقُرْآنَ وَعَلَّمَهُ]

❝The best of you are those who learn the Qur'an and teach it.❞

and this applies to both the wordings and the meanings of the Qur'an.

Allah has blessed this nation with generation after generation of dedicated reciters who learned the Qur'an word for word from their teachers and passed it forward to their students.

Allah has also blessed this nation with brilliant scholars among those memorizers who exerted themselves in attributing each of those ways of recitation to their transmitted chains and distinguishing between the authentic and non-canonical recitations and establishing the principles to distinguish between them.

Among those brilliant minds were:

-Abu Bakr ibn Mujahid (died 324AH) of Baghdad who made the list of the seven famous reciters out of the many master reciters available

-Abu 'Amr al-Dani (died 444AH) of Andalusia who adopted ibn Mujahid's list of seven and selected two main transmitters for each reciter out of the many students each reciter had

-al-Qasim al-Shatibi (died 590AH) of Andalusia who followed the selections of ibn Mujahid and al-Dani and then organized the principles of each qira'ah into poetic form for ease of memorization in his famous al-Shatibiyyah poem

-Ibn al-Jazari (died 833AH) of Damascus who added the remaining three reciters to ibn Mujahid's seven to make ten in his famous work al-Durrah. In this work he also adopted al-Dani's practice of selecting two main transmitters for each reciter and al-Shatibi's method of explaining the principles of each of them.

And so you see in the chart below the ten famous reciters and their two transmitters each.

All of these recitations are Qur'an, and all have unbroken oral chains of transmission that go back to the Prophet.

You can learn more about these reciters and transmitters here: https://tulayhah.wordpress.com/2021/12/18/introduction-to-the-ten-reciters-and-their-transmitters/

You can learn more about the benefits of the qira'at here: https://tulayhah.wordpress.com/2018/02/12/benefits-of-the-multiple-qiraaaat-al-suyooti/

You can learn about how the qira'at impact the explanation of the Qur'an here: https://tulayhah.wordpress.com/2020/08/24/how-do-differences-in-the-qiraaaat-affect-the-tafsir/

And for more information, you can explore our library of scholarly articles on the qira'at here: https://tulayhah.wordpress.com/uloom-al-quran-article-index/qiraaaat-article-index/

Things are not always as they seem.
The mother of Musa عليه السلام was told to throw her son in the river;
Yusuf عليه السلام was left in a well;
Maryam (may Allah be pleased with her) delivered a child alone;
Yunus عليه السلام was swallowed by a whale;
Ibrahim عليه السلام was thrown in the fire;
A’ishah رضى الله عنها was slandered throughout the city;…
Yet look at how it turned out for them in the end. So don’t worry, Allah has a plan for you.

And Allah's Plan is always THE BEST!
Hasbunallahu Wa Ni'mal Wakeel

Muhammad Ibn Sireen (May Allah have mercy on him) said:

“The people with the most faults are those who mention the faults of others.”

- Al-Mujalasah Wa-Jawahir Al-Ilm (6/86) #2406

Did you know ?

Du'as are accepted on Wednesdays between dhuhr and asr prayers.

Jabir Ibn ‘Abdullah (may Allâah be pleased with him) said, “ The Messenger of Allâah(peace and blessings be upon him) supplicated to Allâah in this Masjid (Masjid Al-Fath) on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. His dua was answered on Wednesday between the prayers of Dhuhr and Asr. Jabir(may Allâah be pleased with him)said,” There wasn’t anything that was crucially important for me to have solved, except I called on Allâah during that hour of the day between Dhuhr and Asr knowing He would answer.”

Graded Hasan by Shaykh Al-Albani(May Allâah have mercy upon him) in Saheeh Adab Al-Mufrad.

Shaykh Hussain Awayaasha(may Allâah preserve him )said in his explanation of Saheeh Adab Al-Mufrad.

“The Messenger of Allâah (peace and blessings be upon him)supplicated to Allâah in this Masjid(Masjid Al-Fath )on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday” Masjid Al-Fath: is a Masjid located on the eastside at the top of a mountain stump. A person can ascend to this Masjid by two routes; one on the east and the other on the north side. This is the general meaning of Masjid al-Fath. It has also been said that Masjid Al-Fath is Masjid Ahzab or a Masjid on High ground. [ Fadl 2/174]

“His dua was answered on Wednesday between the prayers of Dhuhr and Asr” . Shaykh Al-Albani(may Allâah shower him with mercy) commented on this saying: If this companion wouldn’t have narrated to us that the prophet(peace and blessings be upon him)made Dua to Allâah during this hour we wouldn’t have known. The person present witnesses what the absent person doesn’t. This ahadeeth has significant meaning; since Jabir narrated the information when exactly his dua was answered. And this shows that the Dua for the Messenger(peace and blessings be upon him)was answered at that hour during Wednesday. Consequently Jabir began to do that same thing he saw Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) do on Wednesday between Dhuhr and Asr. End of Quote from the book.

"Make yourself such that you are always optimistic..." - Shaykh Inn Uthaymeen (رحمه الله)

https://twitter.com/ksa_dawah/status/1654010549695389699

We all fall. We're human. But we rise. We get back up.

Circumstances and emotions seem overwhelming and insurmountable at times. Things can get *really* hard. It can seem like the lights go out and we're enveloped in darkness and we've no choice but to shrink back and succumb. To let ourselves fall. Because we feel unbearably alone.

But that's part of the story, that's part of the plan. In fact, it's the only way to really learn and get strong. We learn how to get back up on our own, and eventually rise to our feet and stay there through repeatedly pulling back up after falling down.

So if you're in that place right now after a fall, take it one day at a time. Breathe. Grab onto the surest, steadiest surface near or above you and hold on. Keep trying. Look up. You WILL rise.

Giving advice so frequently that people become bored is not wise.
Narrated Abu Wail:

Abdullah used to give a religious talk to the people on every Thursday. Once a man said, "O Aba Abdur-Rahman! (By Allah) I wish if you could preach us daily." He replied, "The only thing which prevents me from doing so, is that I hate to bore you, and no doubt I take care of you in preaching by selecting a suitable time just as the Prophet (ﷺ) used to do with us, for fear of making us bored." [Sahih al-Bukhari 70]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

“Everything around you is a witness for you, when you engage in the remembrance of Allāh,

The land, the mountains and the ground will testify for you on the Day of Judgement…

Increase those witnesses for yourself for that day.”

‎[الوابل الصيب ٨١]