"Glad tidings to the one who dismisses himself from people, gets close to his Lord, and cries over his sins."

- Fudayl ibn Iyad, Shub al-Eeman #451 -

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Ibn Abī Mulaykah said,
“I met thirty of the companions of the Prophet ﷺ, every one of them feared hypocrisy for himself.” Abu al-Dardāʾ even said, “If I were certain that Allah accepted just one prayer from me, it would be dearer to me than the whole world and all it contains,” reciting the divine words: {Indeed, Allah accepts only from the muttaqīn} (al-Mā’idah: 27)

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'Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak رحمه اللّٰه said:

"From the worst of a man's calamities is that he knows of his shortcomings but then he does not care nor feel worried."

[Shu'ab al-Iman (v.l pg.894)]

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It is reported from Hudhaifa that news reached him (the Holy Prophet) that a certain man carried tales. Upon this Hudhaifa remarked:

I heard Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) saying: The tale-bearer shall not enter Paradise.

[Sahih Muslim 105 a]

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How fleeting this dunya is, How less our deeds are, And how long will be our standing before Allāh. We keep chasing Life while, Death keeps chasing us. In the end, Death will win.

Prepare for Death - NOT LIFE!

Narrated `Aisha:

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) used to fast till one would say that he would never stop fasting, and he would abandon fasting till one would say that he would never fast. I never saw Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) fasting for a whole month except the month of Ramadan, and did not see him fasting in any month more than in the month of Sha'ban.

[Sahih al-Bukhari, 1969]

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Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله listed a few consequences of sinning/disobeying Allāh:

• Lack of success
• Corrupt views
• Blindness from truth
• Corruption of the heart
• Failing to remember Allāh
• Wasting of time
• Avoidance and hate by the creation
• Separation between the servant and his Lord
• Supplication not being answered
• Hardness of the heart
• Decaying of blessing in provision and age
• Prevention from attaining knowledge
• Humiliation
• Insults from the enemies
• Constriction of the chest
• Affliction with evil friendship, those who corrupt the heart and make one waste the time
• Prolonging of sadness and grief
• Miserable life
• and Disappointment

All this results from sinning and and neglecting to remember Allāh, just as crops are grown by being watered and are consumed by fire.

[كتاب الفوائد للإمام ابن القيم صفحة ٦٢]

INAUTHENTIC NARRATIONS REGARDING SHA'BAN by Shaykh, Muhaddith Abu Ali, al-Harith ibn Ali al-Hassani (Translation posted by Ustadh Abu Ubadah Harith al-Shiraida) 2/

INAUTHENTIC NARRATIONS REGARDING SHA'BAN by Shaykh, Muhaddith Abu Ali, al-Harith ibn Ali al-Hassani (Translation posted by Ustadh Abu Ubadah Harith al-Shiraida) 3/3

Calendar for the 8th Hijri Month: The Month of Rehearsal (for Ramadan)—Sha'ban 1447✨

◽️Ath-Thulathah (Tuesday- 20 Jan) till Maghrib is 1st Sha'ban 1447.

◽️Rajab was 30 days as moon was not sighted Alhamdulillah.

Sha'ban is the month for striving and sincerity. The month of love and service to Allah. The month of turning away from this world. The month of expiating bad deeds. Sha'ban, the month of irrigating (what you planted in Rajab).

For those who didn't excell by starting the preparation in Rajab, this is the month for you, O whose progress is moderate. So let's strive.

Treating others well.

Imam ibn al-Qayyim said:

"There is nothing more beneficial for the heart than treating people well and wanting good for them. If you do this, you will gain the love and affection of strangers; you will maintain the companionship and love of friends; and your kindness will extinguish the fire of hatred raging in the breast of your enemy..."

He also said:

"The person who treats others kindly and thinks well of them, will find that his intention will remain true, he will feel at ease, his heart will be sound and Allah will protect him from evil and calamity."

[Madarij al-Salikeen 2/511]

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Narrated Al-Harith bin Suwaid

Abdullah bin Mas`ud related to us two narrations: One from the Prophet (ﷺ) and the other from himself, saying: A believer sees his sins as if he were sitting under a mountain which, he is afraid, may fall on him; whereas the wicked person considers his sins as flies passing over his nose and he just drives them away like this." Abu Shihab (the sub-narrator) moved his hand over his nose in illustration.."

[Sahih al-Bukhari 6308]

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There was a companion of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ who was small in stature and gentle in appearance.
His body was thin.
His legs were slender.
And when he climbed a tree one day, some people laughed.
They laughed at how small his legs looked.
They laughed at how fragile he seemed.
The Prophet heard the laughter and stopped them.
He said,
"Do you laugh at his legs?"
Then he said words that completely changed the way they saw him:
"By the One in Whose Hand is my soul, they are heavier on the scale on the Day of Judgement than Mount Uhud."
That man was Abdullah ibn Mas'ud (RA).
The same man who:
memorized the Qur'an directly from the Prophet ﷺ, was among the first to recite it publicly in Makkah, was so knowledgeable that Umar (RA) said,
"He is filled with knowledge."
What people mocked...
Allah honored.
What eyes underestimated...
Allah weighed heavily.
Never measure people by what you see.
Allah measures what you don't.
Some of the heaviest souls walk in the lightest bodies.

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