If YOU CAN'T BE USEFUL TO YOUR BROTHERS, DON'T BE A SOURCE OF DISTRESS TO THEM.
The Prophet said:
“Prevent yourself from causing people harm, it is a form of charity from yourself to your soul”.
(Saheehul Jaami', 4490).

Yahya Ibn Mu'aadh said:
Your relationship with a believer should be such that;
1. If you can't benefit him, don't cause him harm.
2. If you can't make him happy, then don't cause him sad.
3. If you don't praise him (for his good), don't condemn him unnecessarily (for his evil).
(Jaamiul Uluum wal Hikam, 281/2).

Comment:
A believer should not be a cause of harm, distress and unhappiness to anyone.
If you can't make them happy, then excuse yourself in their presence and restrain yourself from talking ill of them in their absence.

May ALLAAH aid us to do better.

~ Ozemoya

*For adoption: Parent's passed away*

Pass this on in case it can be shared with anyone interested!
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Asalaamualaikum. Seeking Arab Muslim family wishing to adopt. We have a group of 6 Syrian refugee siblings ages 3-9 looking for a loving Arab Muslim home. Please send me a message for more details. And please share with anyone you know who fits the above profile and is looking to adopt.
JazakAllah khair

Maliha Raza Khan
mrkhan@muslimfostercare.org

A little more detail about the case and the children. The children are currently in Toronto.

Parental rights have been terminated and we are seeking a permanent placement for the children in a Muslim home. The agency is willing to move the children out of the province and prefers a single home placement, but is willing to place them in 2 homes close together to maintain the sibling bond.

All children are enrolled in school and have no behavioral problems.
Age and gender of the children:
9 year old twins
boy 9 years old
girl, 6 years old
girl of 5 years old
3 year old boy.
Below is the departmental contact for anyone interested:
Emily @ 571-528-7320 or emily.nall@loudoun.gov

Their father had died in Syria and their mother passed away a week after reaching Canada😢😢😢

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If you're in doubt about the character of a person, look at his friends.

❝Every man is attached to the one who resembles him. Every bird follows his own kind. Those of the same nature are inclined to each other. The good follow the good. The evil follow the evil.❞

— Ali Ibn Abi-Talib (RA)

❝Companionship with good people leads to beneficial knowledge, virtuous manners and righteous deeds, whilst companionship with bad people prevents one from all of this.❞

— Imaam as-Sa’dee (raḥimahullāh)
“Bahjatul-Abraar” p. 226.

❝There is nothing more beneficial to a Muslim’s heart than to mix with the righteous and to watch their actions, while nothing is more harmful to the heart than mixing with the sinners and watching their actions.❞

— Ahmad Ibn Harb رحمه الله
[Al-Bayhaqi, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabeer, p.100]

#IslamPractice.

Shaykh Ibn Baz (rahimahullah) said:
"If people of truth remained silent
people of error would mislead ordinary folk. This is the sin of witholding knowledge"

When we are young, we dream of a perfect life, and are very much unprepared for the hardships of this dunya. But if we lived a perfect life we would not grow or gain wisdom. It is only with these hardships that we face, that we are able to grow closer to Allahﷻ and gain the wisdom to navigate this dunya.
A perfect life will come one day insha'Allah, but only in Jannah 💕

WHO IS MORE BELOVED TO YOU OF THE TWO

It was said to lmaam Ahmad رحمه الله :"If a man fasts, prays, and performs Itikaaf, is that more beloved to you, or that he speaks against Ahlul bid'ah (the people of innovation)?"

Imaam Ahmad رحمه الله replied: ❝If he fasts, prays, and performs Itikaaf, that is for himself. But if he speaks against Ahlul bid'ah, then it's for the Muslims. This is better!❞

📓 Majmuu Fataawaa of Shaykhul Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah (28/231).

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬

‎A profoundly counselling statement from Shaykh-ul-Islām ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله ⤵️

https://x.com/masjidhudasheff/status/1706268859437633767?s=46&t=H2LEI92z5xjWXhZJ81eskw

'When we left them, they were praying, and when we reached them they were praying.' "

The Messenger of Allah ‏صلى الله عليه وسلم is reported to have said: “..The evilest matters in religion are those that are newly invented, for every newly invented matter is an innovation, every innovation is misguidance, and every misguidance is in the Hellfire.”

Sunan al-Nasā’ī 1578

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyah (rahimahullaah) said in Madarij Al-Salikin, Vol.1 p487:

These are the words of someone who fully understood singing and its effects, for no one regularly sings or listens to song except that his heart falls into nifaq without him realizing. If such a person understood the reality of nifaq and its end he would see it in his own heart. Never do the love of song and the love of Quran come together in a person's heart except that one expels the other. I and others have witnessed how heavy the Quran feels to singers and song-listeners; how they coil when it is recited and how they get angry with a reciter when he recites too long for them (in prayer etc); and how their hearts do not benefit from what he recites: they are not moved to do anything by it. But when the Qur`an of Shaytan comes, la ilaaha illallaah! How they lower their voices and settle down! How their hearts feel at peace and how the crying and emotions start, how moved they are inwardly and outwardly and spend on clothing and perfume and staying up hoping for a long night ahead. If this is not nifaq then it is certainly the way to it and its foundation.

HOW TO GET A HEALTHY HEART? [5] There are five things that deliberately destroy the heart of a believer, and there are also five remedies that will give it health.

💖What I mean by a healthy heart is one that is simple and clean, and full of faith, not one that is free from various ailments.

✍️Ibn Al Qayyim said: "Five destroy the human heart: -

[1] First: Associating with sinful people.

2. Second: The eternal desire and dreaming of worldly things.

3. Third: Belief in anyone besides Allah.

4. Fourth: Always eating a lot and being gluttonous.

5. Fifth: Too much sleep."

✍️And Ibrahim Al Khawwas said: "The cure for a broken heart is five: -

1. First: The constant reading of the Qur'an, especially if it is to be understood.

2. Second: Reducing food, or not being full.

3. Third: The constant prayer in the middle of the night (Tahajjud).

4. Fourth: The constant supplication to Allah every dawn.

5. Fifth: Making friends with good people, people with strong faith."

✍️Ibn Al Qayyim also said: "The heart gets sick like the body and its cure is repentance, and it rusts like iron and what can remove its rust is remembrance (Dhikr), and it also suffers like other creatures and its adornment is the fear of Allah, and it is also hungry like the intestine and its food is trust and faith."

Al-Fudayl Bin Ayaad said:

«والله ما يحل لك أن تؤذي كلبا ولا خنزيرا بغير حق فكيف تؤذي مسلما؟!»

❝I swear by Allaah it is not permissible for you to unnecessarily harm a dog or a pig, so how can you harm a Muslim?!❞

[Seera A’alam An-Nubala, (8/327) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath al-Anbiyya]

Shaykh ibn Bāz [may Allāh have mercy on him] said:

“One of the gravest of crimes is issuing islamic verdicts without knowledge, how many have gone astray and become destroyed as a result of that.”

Majmū al-Fatāwa, 3/219 | Shaykh ibn Bāz [may Allāh have mercy on him]

Translation: Authentic Quotes

Ibn Uthaymeen رحمه الله said:

“If you consider the Islamic religion, you will find that it advises to take care of everyone who is weak:

●So it recommended to be kind with orphans
●It recommended to help the poor
●It advised to help the travellers;

“Because people like these need compassion and care, so Islam recommended to be kind to them.”

[شرح بلوغ المرام / vol. 11 / p. 249]

**Being a True Slave of Allāh by Ibn Taymiyyah**

Pdf Link // https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M2gkiVHDVXaX87KuEwSQFrOAFJxuknUL/view?usp=drivesdk

Al-Ubudiyya

Umar Ibn Al-Khitab رضي الله عنه‎ said:

“Know that there is no goodness in people who don’t give any advice, and there is no goodness in anyone who doesn't like to be advised.”

[Risaalat Al-Mustarshideen, 71]

*Dealing with Your Brothers’ Shortcomings*

When your companion becomes angry and says something that is unwarranted, you should not take it too hard.

His situation is that of a drunken person who is not aware of what is taking place.

Instead, be patient, even if it means only for a little while. If you reciprocate his words with harsh words of your own, you become like the sane person who seeks revenge on a madman, or the conscious person who seeks retribution from an unconscious one.

(Instead) look at him with a merciful eye and pity him for his actions.

[Ibn al-Jawzi (Rahimahullah), Sayd al-Khaatir, Page 406]

The Prophet ﷺ said: “Teach, and make things easy, and don’t make things difficult, and remain silent when angry, and remain silent when angry, and remain silent when angry”
Musnad Ahmad: 2556 (Authentic Hadith).

Explanation of the Hadith:

“Teach” - teach people from the good and beneficial knowledge you have.

“Make things easy and don’t make things difficult” - make things easy upon yourself, by doing that which you’re capable of, concerning matters of worship and matters of life, while making sure you give each family member their right.

“And remain silent when angry” - He ﷺ repeated it 3 times, emphasising how dangerous speech during anger could be, since it’s most likely that people will say something regrettable, such as swearing and curse, and all this displeases Allah ﷻ.

Today’s Beautiful Hadith is about Hunger
'A'isha (RA) reported Allah's Messenger (peace be upon him) as saying: 'A'isha (RA) a family which has no dates (in their house) its members will be hungry; (or) 'A'isha (RA) the family which has no dates its members may be hungry. He said this twice or thrice.

(Sahih Muslim 2046b, Book 36, Hadith 211)

Dates are nutritiously dense and provide so much energy. When fasting, the satisfaction of biting into a sweet date is rewarding and refreshing.

Marhoom Hakeem Yusuf (rahimahullah) used to always say:
"Listen to the wisdom of the old people and you will acquire knowledge which is not found even in books."

There is an Arabic saying that states:

اسأل مجرب ولا تسأل خبير
"Ask the experienced person and not the philosopher."

ibn ‘Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah) said:

"There are three types of young people. The upright, the corrupt, and the confused.

The Upright young people are believers in every sense of the word. They believe in their religion in such a way that they love it and are convinced by and content with it. They regard embracing it as profit and denial of it as clear loss.

The Corrupt young people are religiously deviating, behaviorally reckless, self-deluded, and engulfed by their own vices. They do not accept truth from others, do not refrain from falsehood that is inherent in their minds, and are selfish in their conduct.

The Confused young people are the ones who are uncertain, irresolute, and at a crossroad. They know the truth and are sure of it. They live in a religiously conservative society but have the misfortune of being exposed to evil channels from every direction. They are exposed to evils like skepticism about the truthfulness of the Muslim creed, corruption in conduct and behavior decadence in actions, attack on the established-customs and traditions."

[Mushkilaat Ash-Shabaab]