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)

Mobile Phone Use 'Raises Children's Risk of Brain Cancer Fivefold'

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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.
Right Aqidha
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.

To all women. *Hidden Female Figures in Islamic History*

*Have you heard of Nusayba bint Ka'ab?*

The female warrior who courageously defended the Prophet (S) in several battles.

The one whom the Prophet (S) said about her at Uhud, "Whenever I looked to the right or left, I saw her fighting in front of me."

The one whom the Prophet (S) asked, "From where can anyone get courage like you, O Umm Umarah (her nickname)?"

*Have you ever heard of Rufayda bint Sa'ad?*

Also known as Rufayda al-Aslamiyyah, who was the first female nurse in Islamic history.

The Prophet (S) ordered the wounded and dying to be sent specifically to her tent during battles.

Learning medical knowledge from her father, she became an expert in the medical field, and began training other women companions to become nurses as well.

She was known as a kind, empathetic healer, as well as a compassionate social worker who took care of orphans, the handicapped and the poor.

*Have you ever heard of Um Mihjaan?*

The cleaner of the masjid, who beautified and maintained the Prophet (S)'s blessed mosque.

The one whom the Prophet (S) was upset when she passed away, because nobody had informed him of it.

"Why did you not inform me?'' he asked his companions.

He then asked to see her grave, and prayed his own individual Salat ul Janaazah over her.

👉Isn't it amazing that a woman was entrusted to take care of the masjid of Rasulallah (S), yet today several Muslim societies won't even let women into the masjid?

*Have you ever heard of Umm Sa'd Jamilah bint As'ad Ansariyyah?*

A noble teacher of Islam.

It is reported that Dawud ibn Husayn, a companion of the Prophet (S), used to take Qur'anic lessons from her.

According to ibn Athir, Umm Sa'd had memorized the Qur'an and used to give regular lessons.

*Have you ever heard of the female companion who owned her own farm?*

She employed many men to work under her, she was their boss, and they tended to her crops.

*Have you ever heard that many female companions were businesswomen?*

Like the wife of Abdullah ibn Masud, who was the main breadwinner of her family, making handicrafts by her own hand and selling her goods in the marketplace.

*Have you heard that Aisha bint Abu Bakr was actually considered a "Muftiyah" meaning a female Mufti?*

Did you know that noscript could even exist for women?

Men and women would come from all over the Islamic world to consult her about the Shariah, and she would perform ijtihad and issue fatawa.

There are several times where she even corrected the fatawa of other sahaba, since she was privy to a lot of ahadith that others had not heard because of her close relationship with the Prophet (S).

*Have you ever heard of Umm al-Darda?*

A prominent female scholar and jurist of Islam in the 7th century who would teach her lessons in the male section of the masjid.

Her class was attended by men and women, Imams, jurists, and Hadith scholars.

*Have you ever heard of the numerous women scholars who played a pivotal role in the lives of many of the ulama we look up to?*

👉The female scholar Nafisa bint al-Hasan taught hadith to Imam ash-Shafi'i.

👉Ibn Hajar mentioned that he studied under 53 women scholars.

👉Ibn Asakir al-Dimashqi took hadith from 80 female narrators of hadith.

*Have you ever heard of Fatima al-Fihri?*

The educated Muslim woman who founded the world's very first university,

The University of al-Qarawiyyin, which still stands today as one of the most prominent institutions of Islamic learning.

_These are just a few of the hidden female figures of our Islamic history._

_Women who exercised the rights that Islam had granted her, untainted by the patriarchy and cultures that stifle women today._

*Learn about their names. Share their names.*

*Rewrite their names into the books of history.*

Some people are so used to socializing a lot that when they're alone, they find themselves feeling lonely and miserable.

One should get used to isolation to the point that he misses being alone after socializing.

Secluding oneself will help a person reflect on his own self, his sins, and his mental state and rectify them between him and His Lord. He should make it a habit to rectify himself in seclusion and to find joy in remembering Allaah so that even if he is left alone, he will not feel lonely as he knows his own company, books, and dhikrullaah (remembrance of Allah is sufficient for him.

Imam Al-Jawzi ( رحمه الله) said:

"Practice isolation, for it is the basis of all good; beware of bad companionship, and let the books and reading about the lives of our predecessors be your companions."

[Sincere Council to the seekers of Sacred Knowledge p. 67]

"How beautiful is seclusion.

You will be free from the dirt of backbiting (gheebah), the harms of pretentiousness, concealing animosity and wasting time.

The heart remains free from being pre-occupied with mixing with people, so it looks after it’s worldly and heavenly needs."

[Sayd al-Khaatir of Ibn al-Jawzi (rahimahullah), 584]

"For a scholar and an ascetic, there is no real seclusion.

Books of the scholars keep them company and talk to them.

Looking into the affairs (and firmness) of the Salaf keeps them steadfast, and thinking about past events (history) brings them relief."

[Sayd al-Khaatir of Ibn al-Jawzi (rahimahullah), pg. 585]

Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah) said:

"It is essential for one to have some time spent alone where he supplicates to Allah, makes His dhikr, prays, contemplates, reflects on himself, and rectifies his heart."

[Majmoo' al-Fataawa, 10/426]

“Evil-eye is true. If evil- eye raced with fate, it would beat fate (it would change fate)”
(Muslim, Salaam: 42; Ibni Majah, Tib: 3).

Evil-eye is true. It puts a camel in a cooking pot and a man in grave.”
(Kashfu’l-Khafa, 2: 76, narrated Abu Naim).

Thus, just as a camel affected by evil-eye may die and its meat can be put in the cooking pot, so too may a man affected by evil-eye die and be put in grave. It is understood from the hadith that the effects of evil-eye affect not only human beings but also all living beings and even anything that attracts one to look at.

https://news.1rj.ru/str/EvilEyes_BlackMagic

Ibn Abī al-Dunyā رحمه الله narrated:

“The worst of my nation are those who are nourished by pleasure,

eating a variety of foods,

wearing a variety of clothes,

and being pompous (boastful) in their speech.”

[Dhamm al-Ghibah wal-Namimah, 12]

Abu Hurairah (RA) narrated that: The Messenger of Allah (Sallellahu Alaihi Wasallam) said: "The believer's soul is suspended by his debt until it is settled for him."

(Jami` at-Tirmidhi, Vol. 2, Book 10, Hadith 114)

A beautiful reminder to settle your debts before the Day your life's debts are due. Today, many people have loans and borrowed money from people with little idea of how they'll repay them. Always work towards repaying those who you owe, you don't want to be left in a suspended state not because of your deeds but because of debts that are waiting to be paid to someone.