It was said, ‘If Loyalty was towards land, the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) would not have left Makkah.

If it was towards ones tribe, then he (Messenger ﷺ) would not have fought against his tribe Quraish.

If it was towards family he (Messenger pbuh) would not have disassociate himself from his uncle Abu Lahab.

But rather Loyalty is based on Aqeedah (faith), And it is more precious than blood and soil.’

Do not incur sin by being extravagant in eating.

The Sunnah encourages moderation in eating, and strongly criticises extravagance.

“and eat and drink but waste not by extravagance, certainly He (Allāh) likes not Al‑Musrifūn (those who waste by extravagance)”

Surah al-A’rāf, al-āyah 31

SURAH IKHLAS — Love For This Surah Will Make You Enter Paradise ✨

Anas (رضي الله عنه) said:

"One of the Ansar used to lead the Ansar in Salat (prayer) in the Quba' mosque and it was his habit to recite Qul Huwal-lahu Ahad (Say: He is Allah the One, Surah No.112) (after Surat Al-Fatiha, Surah No. 1) whenever he wanted to recite something in Salat. When he finished that Surah, he would recite another one with it. He followed the same procedure in each Rak'ah.

His companions discussed this with him and said: "You recite this Surah and do not consider it sufficient and then you recite another. So would you recite it alone or leave it and recite some other." He said: "I will never leave it and if you want me to be your Imam on this condition then it is all right; otherwise I will leave you." They knew that he was the best amongst them and they did not like someone else to lead them in Salat.

When the Prophet (ﷺ) went to them as usual, they informed him about it. The Prophet (ﷺ) addressed him and said: "O so-and-so, what forbids you from doing what your companions ask you to do? Why do you read this Surah particularly in every Rak'ah?"
 
He replied: "I love this Surah."
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Your love for this Surah will make you enter Paradise."

📚: Sahih Bukhari 774

Narrated from Amrah bint Abdur Rahman (رضى الله عنها):

"The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) sent a man in charge of an expedition, and he used to recite for his companions when leading them in prayer, and he would end (the recitation) with: "Qul Huwal-lahu Ahad (Say: He is Allah the One, Surah No.112)

When they came back, they mentioned that to the Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) and he (ﷺ) said: "Ask him why he does that." So they asked him and he said: "Because it is a denoscription of the Most Merciful and I love to recite it." 

The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) thereupon said: "Inform him that Allah loves him."

📚: Sahih Muslim 813 (1890)

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I advise you with five matters.....

Imam Qaasim al-Joo’ee said:
“I advise you with five matters:
(1) when you are treated unjustly, do not behave unjustly;
(2) when you are praised do not become happy;
(3) when you are criticised, do not become upset;
(4) when you are not believed, do not become angry;
(5) and if the people act deceitfully towards you, do not act deceitfully towards them.”

[Ibn al-Jawzee, Sifatus-Safwaa, 2/200]

Ibn al-Qayyim [rahimahullah] said,

When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allaah alone, Allaah [subhaanahu wa ta’ala] 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 when 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. He will cause his tongue to speak only in remembering people instead of remembering Allaah. He will cause him to use his talents and energy in obeying and serving the people. This person will strive hard, laboring like some work-animal, to serve something other than Allaah.

Everyone who turns away from being a true slave of Allaah by obeying and loving Him, will be burdened with servitude to some created being. Allaah says in the Qur’an [interpretation of the meaning]:

And whosoever turns away [blinds himself] from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent, We appoint for him a shaytaan to be his Qareen [intimate companion]. (Sura al-Zukhruf, Ayah 36)

It was narrated that Anas [radi Allaahu anhu] said that the Prophet [sallal laahu alaihi wa sallam] said:

Whoever is mainly concerned about the Hereafter, Allaah will make him feel independent of others and will make him focused and content, and his worldly affairs will fall into place. But whoever is mainly concerned with this world, Allaah will make him feel in constant need of others and will make him distracted and unfocused, and he will get nothing of this world except what is decreed for him. (narrated by al-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 2389 and classed as Saheeh by Shaykh Muhammad Naasiruddin al-Albaani [rahimahullah])

(Source: al-Fawaa’ id, page 159)

Aspire to be among the people of Ilm

Awn Ibn ‘Abdillah رحمهما الله said:
“I said to ‘Umar Bin ‘Abdil-‘Azīz: ‘It was said (to me):
If you are able to be a scholar, then be a scholar. And if you are not able to do so, then be a student of knowledge. And if you are not able to be a student of knowledge, then love them. And if you can’t love them, then do not hate them.’

So ‘Umar رحمه الله said:
‘SubhanAllah! (Glory be to Allah!) Allah has indeed made a way out for this person.’”
[Kitaab al-‘Ilm p.g., 7]


Abdullah Ibn Mas’ud رضي الله عنه said:

أغدُ عالماً، أو متعلماً، ولا تغدُ بين ذلك

“Aspire to become a scholar or a student of knowledge, and do not aspire to become anything other than that.”

[كتاب العلم لأبي خيثمة ٧]

Narrated by Abu dhar رضى الله عنه
"The Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم asked me at sunset: "Do you know where the sun goes (at the time of sunset)?"
I replied: "Allah and His Messenger know better."

He said: "It goes (i.e. travels) till it prostrates Itself underneath the Throne and takes the permission to rise again, and it is permitted (...)"

[Bukhari, 3199]

A heart and mind full of doubts will never be at peace:

Ibn Masʿūd (raḍiyAllāhu ‘anh) said:

"Indeed, Allāh out of His infinite wisdom and justice

made peace and happiness in having contentment and certainty,

and He made worry and sadness in being displeased (with His decree) and in having doubts."

[Abū Bakr al-Bayhaqī (rahimahillāh), Shuʿab al-ʾĪmān 1/384, 205]

My brothers and sisters.

Spend your time seeking & implementing beneficial knowledge.

Sit with the scholars and their students. Travel to meet them and learn from them. Humble yourself and sit at their feet listening attentively.

Play their lectures, read their books, memorize and review.

There are many who are given the microphone today - in the houses of Allah of all places - and waste the people's time with nonsense, stories, and games.

Don't fall into this trend, even if you see the masses flocking towards it. Stick to the path of the righteous before us.

It's a bitter, hard path, but you will never regret it in this life and more importantly in the Hereafter.

فَأَمَّا الزَّبَدُ فَيَذْهَبُ جُفَاءً ۖ وَأَمَّا مَا يَنفَعُ النَّاسَ فَيَمْكُثُ فِي الْأَرْضِ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَضْرِبُ اللَّهُ الْأَمْثَالَ

"...The worthless residue is then cast away, but what benefits people remains on the earth. This is how Allah sets forth parables." (13:17)

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The Importance of Planning

We learn from the Messenger ﷺ that he always planned what to do during his mission. That is the case despite having direct access to revelation and assistance from Allāh. A great example is when he migrated from Makkah to Madīnah

The Companions believed in Allāh's promise to preserve the Qur'ān, yet, Abū Bakr aṣ-Ṣiddīq took on the mission of gathering the Qur'ān into one book when many of the memorizers were killed during the battles with apostates and those who refused to pay the Zakāh.

A Muslim today should have a plan on what he is going to invest in this world for his Hereafter. Simply settling for getting a secular education, working, getting married and having children, all of this is not enough.

We are slaves of Allāh and must be prepared to present something before Him on the Day of Standing.

It begins with gaining the beneficial authentic knowledge of the Religion, implementing it, and sharing it with others in Da'wah, starting with one's own family and close relatives.

The Messenger ﷺ was instructed to ask Allāh to increase him in knowledge - وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا - "And say, 'My Lord, increase me in knowledge.'" [Noble Qur'ān 20:114]

Allāh also said that one who is given wisdom has been given a great deal of good.

يُؤْتِي الْحِكْمَةَ مَن يَشَاءُ ۚ وَمَن يُؤْتَ الْحِكْمَةَ فَقَدْ أُوتِيَ خَيْرًا كَثِيرًا

"He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given wisdom has certainly been given much good." [Noble Qur'ān 2:269]

And the Messenger ﷺ was sent to teach the Book - the Qur'ān - and the Ḥikmah, the wisdom of the Sharī‘ah, and the Sunnah [Noble Qur'ān 2:151 and 62:2]

Just as this material world will perish, so will the sciences and disciplines which have to do with learning about it. The Hereafter is what remains, and so the real success is in learning the Religion.

May Allāh grant us the knowledge and the wisdom.

ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib رضي الله عنه said:

"Blessings arrive with gratitude (to Allāh), and gratitude is connected with more (blessings), and the two are tied together: more blessings from Allāh will never stop unless gratitude from the servant stops."

[Source: Ibn Abī ad-Dunyā (Rahimahullāh), ash-Shukr, article 18]

وَسْـَٔلُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ مِن فَضْلِهِ ۦٓ ۗ
"And ask Allāh of his bounty."
[al-Nisā':32]

You can NOT run away, hide, avoid the trials, tribulations, & stresses of life. They will find you wherever you are.

You CAN put your trust in Allah, learn what He wants from you, take a step in the right direction, make dua’a, be patient & wait for the help of Allah to arrive!

HONESTY: AN OBLIGATION || Disclosing the faults of merchandise

Rasulullaah ﷺ was once passing a grain seller and placed his hand into the heap of grain on display.

Feeling that it was wet inside, Rasulullaah ﷺ asked the seller what the problem was.
The man admitted that rain had caused the heap to get wet.
Rasulullaah ﷺ said, “Why did you then not place the wet grains on top for people to see? The one who deceives us is not one of us.”

[Muslim 284 || Hadhrat Abu Hurairah رَضِيَ ٱللَّٰهُ عَنْهُ]
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Any defect in merchandise on sale needs to be disclosed to the prospective buyers.

Islam don’t change according to your changes. It will remain same the way it came and the way it will go back to Allah azwajal.
We need to change to fit into the fold of Islam. That’s by full submission to Allah and the teachings of our beloved prophet Muhammad sallelahualehewasalam.
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Tawheed
Hold tight to Quran and Sunnah.

The reason for the disappearance of blessings.

The blessings have not been eradicated: except for abandoning the Taqwa (piety) of Allah and offending people.

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله, “Ahkam Ahl ud-Dhimmah” (1/88).📙

Today, you can steal someone's right by bribing or using power. This, however, will become a fire for you on the Day of Judgement.

Narrated Um Salama:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "I am only a human being, and you people have disputes. May be some one amongst you can present his case in a more eloquent and convincing manner than the other, and I give my judgment in his favor according to what I hear. Beware! If ever I give (by error) somebody something of his brother's right then he should not take it as I have only, given him a piece of Fire." [Bukhari 6967]

A man once approached the Prophet ʿalayhi al-salam expressing concern about the hardened state of his heart. The Prophet replied, "If you wish to soften it, then feed the poor and gently rub the head of an orphaned child."

— Musnad aḥmad no. 7576

Abdullāh b. Masʿūd Allāh be pleased with him said:

The example of the believer, the unbeliever and the hypocrite is that of three people who arrived at a valley. One of them descended and passed through to the other side.

One of them descended until he reached half way, when the third man on the edge of the valley called to him, “Woe to you, where are you going?

You will die. Come back.” The man who made it to the other side called to him, “Come and be saved.” So [the man in the middle of the valley] kept looking back and forth at the two [on each side of the valley], when a flood came into the valley and drowned him.

The man who passed through to the other side is the believer; the one who drowned is the munāfiq (hypocrite)

مُّذَبْذَبِينَ بَيْنَ ذَٰلِكَ لَآ إِلَىٰ هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ وَلَآ إِلَىٰ هَـٰٓؤُلَآءِ ۚ

[The Hypocrites] sway between this and that, neither [fully] with the believers nor with the unbelievers.

Quran 4:143

And the one who remained at the edge of the valley [not able to escape the flood and pass] is the kāfir (unbeliever).

Ibn Abī Ḥātim, Al-Tafsīr article 6144.