One of the benefits of fasting: to sympathize with the poor

Ibn Rajab narrates:
ذكر الإمام ابن رجب في كتابه لطائف المعارف ص 314 عن بعض السلف أنَّه سئل: "لِمَ شُرِع الصيام؟ فقال: ليذوق الغني طعم الجوع فلا ينسى الجائع".
A pious predecessor was asked: '𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗯𝗲𝗱?'
He replied: '𝗦𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗵 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼𝗼 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘁/𝗻𝗲𝗴𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗼𝗿.'
('Lataa'if al-ma'aarif', p. 314).

When the rich taste the hunger that the poor feel, they will have more sympathy for the poor, and they will be more inclined to help the poor and destitute.

These acts bring a person closer to piety (taqwa), which is the ultimate goal of fasting.

Abu Sa’id al-Khudri reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Whoever among you sees evil, let him change it with his hand. If he cannot do so, then with his tongue. If he cannot do so, then with his heart, which is the weakest level of faith.”

Source: Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim 49

Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Muslim

عَنْ أَبِي سَعِيدٍ الْخُدْرِيّ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ مَنْ رَأَى مِنْكُمْ مُنْكَرًا فَلْيُغَيِّرْهُ بِيَدِهِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَبِلِسَانِهِ فَإِنْ لَمْ يَسْتَطِعْ فَبِقَلْبِهِ وَذَلِكَ أَضْعَفُ الْإِيمَانِ

49 صحيح مسلم كتاب الإيمان باب بيان أن النهي عن المنكر من الإيمان والأن الإيمان يزيد وينقص

THE 3 TYPES OF PEOPLE IN YOUR LIFE..

1. The Leaf people

2. The Branch people

3. The Root people

LEAF PEOPLE:

These are people who come into your life just for a season. You can't depend on them because they are weak. They only come to take what they want, but if the wind comes they will leave.

You need to be careful of these people because they love you when things are okay, but when the wind comes they will leave you BRANCH PEOPLE:

They are strong, but you need to be careful with them too. They break away when life becomes tough and they can't handle too much weight. They may stay with you in some seasons, but

they will go when it becomes harder

ROOT PEOPLE: These people are very important because they don't do things to be seen. They are supportive even if you go through a difficult time they will water you and they are not moved by your position they just love you like that...

It's not all people you meet or are your friends, that will stay with you.

Only the root type of people will stay no matter

the season.

Heal your heart with Qur'ān

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

“If you read (the Qur'ān) with contemplation, even if over a (single) ayah, it is a key to healing your heart. Even if repeated a hundred times and for the (whole) night. Reading an ayah with contemplation and understanding is better than reading to completion without tadabbur and understanding. It is more beneficial for the heart and ensures gain in faith, and in tasting sweetness of the Qur'ān.”

مفتاح دار السعادة (٥٥٣/١)

Reviewing Juzz Ammah and subhanAllah this Surah always centers my purpose in life and pulls me back to what is truly important.

When someone tries to one up you, fool you, play games to get their way - LET THEM. <3

When people think you are stupid or gullible let them.
When people think they can use you and who maintain relationship with you just because of some benefit they derive - let them.

Turn to Quran, turn to companionship of sahabas and rasool Allah ﷺ through seerah and through books of ahadith.

Isolate yourself from others, and mix with people as little as possible. And make sure the people you mix with are pious.

Verily, ‘Umar (radiallaahu ‘anhu) said,
‘Do not become ambitious, for ambition is in reality poverty, whereas giving up hope (of worldly riches and pleasures, whereby one becomes content with one’s lot) is in reality richness. In isolation, one can achieve tranquility since one avoids mixing with evil people.’

Sa’eed ibn al-Musayyib used to say,
‘Isolation is worship.’

And my favourite quote <3 <3 <3

❝Whoever seeks to compete with you in your religion, compete with him; Whoever seeks to compete with you in this world, let him have it...❞
- Al Hasan al Basri رحمه الله

Beware of ar riyaa, beware of seeking attention, beware of me me me mentality, beware of seeking positions of leadership.

Let death preoccupy you and always be on your mind. And decrease your expectations for this world.

I promise you, you will lead a steadfast life, a life free of drama, a life free from unnecessary attachments and expectations.

🤲 Ya Allah protect us from what brings about our destruction and make easy for us the path of obedeience - Allahumma ameen!

Allah alerts us to schemes of the shaytaan in surah al-Baqarah [02] by saying:

[ *إِنَّمَا يَأْمُرُكُم بِالسُّوءِ وَالْفَحْشَاءِ وَأَن تَقُولُوا عَلَى اللَّهِ مَا لَا تَعْلَمُونَ*]

He only commands you to do *soo'a* and *fahshah*, and to say what you do not know about Allah [169]

In part of his explanation of this ayah, Imam al-Baghawi wrote:

[روى باذان عن ابن عباس قال : الفحشاء من المعاصي ما يجب فيه الحد والسوء من الذنوب ما لا حد فيه . وقال السدي : هي الزنا]

Badhan relayed that ibn 'Abbaas said: *Fahshah* are those acts of disobedience which bring about a prescribed punishment, and *soo'a* are those sins which do not involve a prescribed punishment.

al-Suddi said: *al-Fahshah* is Zina

[Tafsir al-Baghawi 1/181-182]

HAVE MORE FEAR OF ALLAH THAN FEAR OF EVIL

In recent times there has been a lot of delusion and imagining on the part of people

speculating that whatever afflicts them is due to magic, the jinn and the evil eye.

Even if a person is stricken with cold he says it’s the evil eye or magic. This is a great error. Turn away from all of this, oh Muslim!

Trust and depend on Allah! (by maintaining salah times, reciting the adhkaar of the morning and the evening, reciting the Qur’an in your homes!)

Don’t allow yourself to be confused by whispering and ultimately this (these thoughts) will be diverted from you.

The reason for that is if a man has something on his mind, he will be preoccupied with it. Whereas if he ignored it and left it alone, no harm would touch him.

[Muhammad Ibn Saalih al-Uthaymeen (rahimahullah), Fataawa Noor ‘Alaa ad-Darb, Tape. 366: ‘Poor Character’]

The wealthy one is not the person who owns this dunya...💎

AL IKHLAS IS AN EXPENSIVE ISSUE AND FEW ARE THOSE WHO CAN ACHIEVE IT

Al-Fayrawz Abādi رحمه الله said:

“Akhlasa means to give up Riyā (showing-off) [i.e. offering worship purely for the sake of Allāh].”

Al-Qāmūs al-Muheet 797.

TN; Linguistically: It is extracted from the verb (Akhlas) whose source is (Ikhlās), which means to make pure and not mixed with anything else.


Translation: Authentic Quotes

Between The Past And The Future – Imâm Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah

al-Fawaa’id, pp 151-152, Al-Istiqaamah, No. 2

Your life in the present moment is in between the past and the future.

So what has preceded can be rectified by tawbah (repentance), nadam (regret) and istighfar (seeking Allaah’s forgiveness). And this is something that will neither tire you, nor cause you to toil as you would with strenuous labour. Rather it is an action of the heart.Then as regards the future (then it can be corrected) by withholding yourself from sins. And this abandonment is merely the leaving of something and to be at ease from it. This also is not action of the limbs, which requires you to strive and toil. Rather this is a firm resolve and intention of the heart – which will give rest to your body, heart and thoughts.

So as for what has preceded, then you rectify it with repentance. And as for the future – then you rectify it with firm resolve and intention. Neither of these involves any hardship or exertion of the limbs.

But then your attention must be directed to your life in the present – the time between two times. If you waste it, then you have wasted the opportunity to be of the fortunate and saved ones. If you look after it, having rectified the two times – what is before and after it, as we have said – then you will be successful and achieve rest, delight and ever-lasting bliss. However, looking after it is harder than that which comes before and after it, since guarding it involves keeping to that which is most befitting and beneficial for your soul, and that which will bring it success and well-being.

https://abdurrahman.org/2009/10/13/between-the-past-and-the-future/

*Allah Said:*

And Allah judges with truth, while those to whom they invoke besides Him, cannot judge anything. Certainly, Allah! He is the All-Hearer, the All-Seer.

Have they not travelled in the land and seen what was the end of those who were before them? They were superior to them in strength, and in the traces (which they left) in the land. But Allah seized them with punishment for their sins. And none had they to protect them from Allah.

*Qur'an Surah 40, Verses 20 - 21.*
*Translated by, Al-Hilali and Muhsin Khan, ( The Noble Qur'an ).*
*Published by, Sajed Munir.*

As You Do To Others, It Will Be Done To You

As you do to others, it will be done to you. You will be treated just like you treat the creation. Whoever ponders this will find it easy to do good towards those who harm him.

[Book: One Hundred Pieces of Advice by Ibn al Qayyim, p. 58 | Translated by: Rasheed Barbee | Published by: Authentic Statements Publications]

Some wise individuals have said:

"When you see falsehood spreading everywhere and feel fear, remember that:

Pharaoh met his end in the sea, The wealthy Korah was swallowed by the earth, Nimrod, king of Babylon, succumbed to a mosquito,
The story of Abraha and his elephant army ended with stones of Sijjil (stones made from hard clay).

All of them met their fate without human intervention, so don't occupy yourself with how falsehood will end. Instead, focus on defending the truth and refuting falsehood.

✒ The superiority of one who wakes up at night and offers the Salat

The Prophet (ﷺ) said: "Whoever gets up at night and says:
'لا إله إلا الله وحده لا شريك له، له الملك وله الحمد وهو على كل شيء قدير. الحمد لله وسبحان الله ولا إله إلا الله والله أكبر ولا حول ولا قوة إلا بالله.'
And then says:
'اللهم اغفر لي',
or invokes (Allah), he will be responded to, and if he performs ablution (and prays), his prayer will be accepted."

📚: Sahih al-Bukhari 1154 | Sahih

It is a grave mistake to [place total] trust in people, and to tell your friends [ anything and ] everthing. Since the most harmful of enemies and the greatest of them is friend-turned-enemy since he knows about [ your ] inner secrets.

@SalahIranee
See Sayd Al-khatīr, Ibn al-Jawzī, Abū-Faraj 'Abd al-Rahmān ibn 'Alī.
Bayrut: Midār al-Watan, 2016 (pp.234)

5 BENEFITS OF PRAYING SALAT AL DUHA

1. It fulfills sadaqah (charity) on every joint in your body.
"In the morning every single joint of yours must pay a sadaqah (charity). Every SubhanAllah is a sadaqah, every Alhamdulillah is a sadaqah, every La Ilaha Illa Allah is a sadaqah, every Allahu Akbar is a sadaqah, every commanding good is a sadaqah, and every forbidding evil is a sadaqah, and all this is accomplished through two rak'ats one can pray in Duha." [Muslim]

2. It is the prayer of the righteous.
"None is assiduous in keeping Salat al-Duha except one who is oft-repentent (awwab), and it is the prayer of the oft-repentent (wa hiya Salat al-Awwabin)." [Ibn Khuzaymah, sahih according to the conditions of Imam Muslim]

3. It was an advice from the Messenger ﷺ himself.
Abu Hurayrah: "My beloved (the Messenger) instructed me never to leave three things until I die: fasting three days of the month, praying Salat al-Witr before sleep, and praying the 2 rakats of Salat al-Duha." [Musnad Ahmad]

4. If performed after remembering Allah from the time of Fajr prayer, it's equivalent to the complete reward of Hajj & Umrah.
"Whoever prays the Fajr prayer then sits in his place of prayer remembering Allah until sunrise, then prays two rakats of Duha, shall be rewarded as if he had performed Hajj and Umrah, with a reward that is complete, complete, complete." [Tirmidhi, hasan]
(Note: This doesn't nullify the requirement to perform Hajj).

5. Making it a habit leads to forgiveness of one's sins.
"Whoever regularly prays the two rakats of Duha, his sins are forgiven even if they are as numerous as the foam of the sea." [Tirmidhi, Ahmad, Ibn Majah]

It's a simple 2 rak'ahs that's prayed any time after the sun rises until just before Dhuhr prayer. Make it a lifelong habit and encourage your family and friends to do so as well.

May Allah make us of those who benefit from what we learn.Aamen

As You Do To Others, It Will Be Done To You

As you do to others, it will be done to you. You will be treated just like you treat the creation. Whoever ponders this will find it easy to do good towards those who harm him.

[Book: One Hundred Pieces of Advice by Ibn al Qayyim, p. 58 | Translated by: Rasheed Barbee | Published by: Authentic Statements Publications]

Signs of a Pure & Healthy Heart:

️One considers himself as belonging to the next world and not this world. He is a stranger in this world anxious to reach his abode in the Hereafter.

️One continues to be upset with himself anytime he commits a sin until he finally and completely repents to Allah.

️One is more upset and unhappy if he misses his daily recitation of the Qur’an and dhikr, than if he had lost his wealth.

️One finds greater pleasure worshiping Allah than any pleasure in eating and drinking.

️One’s worries and concerns about this world leave him whenever he begins his formal prayers.

️One’s only concern and worries are about Allah and doing deeds only for His sake.

️One is more concerned and stingy about wasting time than a greedy person is with respect to his wealth.

️One is more concerned about the correctness of his deeds than with the performance of the deeds themselves.

— Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751H/1350CE]

[Ighaatha al-Lahfaa, vol. 1, pp.70-73. Quoted in Commentary on the Forty Hadith of al-Nawawi, vol 1, pp. 471-472]

WHOEVER FEARS ALLĀH, HE WILL MAKE A WAY OUT FOR HIM.

I was in a difficult situation that made me distressed all the times, and I exerted all my power to think of every possible way to rid these worries and concerns but without any joy! I then recalled the verse,

{وَمَن یَتَّقِ ٱللَّهَ یَجۡعَل لَّهُۥ مَخۡرَجࣰا}
“Whoever fears ALLĀH, HE will make for him a way out.” [al-Talaq 65:2]

And so I knew that fearing ALLĀH is the means whereby every concern and distress is removed. I acted upon the Verse and fulfilled the requirements of fearing ALLĀH and so I found a way out.

No person should ever rely on, or think of anything except having obedience to ALLĀH and acting upon HIS Commands as this is the only means whereby hardship is lifted. It is even more pleasant when such ease comes from a means that a person never had thought of despite how resourceful he happens to be; just as the verse, says,

{وَیَرۡزُقۡهُ مِنۡ حَیۡثُ لَا یَحۡتَسِبُۚ}
“And HE will provide for him from where he does not expect.” [al-Talaq 65:3]

A person who fears ALLĀH should know that ALLĀH is sufficient for him and hence he should not let his heart be attached to the means and causes, for ALLĀH, Most High, said,

{وَمَن یَتَوَكَّلۡ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسۡبُهُ}
“And whoever relies upon ALLĀH — then HE is sufficient for him.” [al-Talaq 65:3]

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