The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said, “A woman should not look at or touch another woman and then describe her to her husband in such a way as if he was actually looking at her.” [Al-Bukhāri & Muslim]

Shaykh Ahmad Mūsā Jibrīl حفظه الله said, “How many women who may be on the Haqq shamelessly & freely describe women they sat with to their brothers or usually to husbands?”

Reminder to the sisters: you have a duty to your Muslim sisters and friends to protect their modesty around the men in your life, so take that Amānah with seriousness and be trustworthy in it.

It’s very sad to know that many sisters go around talking about their friends and their lives in such detail, to the extent that their husbands and brothers know their friends almost as well as she does! Or that when they speak on the phone with their friends, they do so within earshot of male relatives — and a lot about a woman’s appearance or habits can be revealed in overhearing a casual discussions between friends.

Some sisters spend their whole lives covering for Allāh’s sake and hiding themselves to the best of their abilities, while they’re oblivious to the fact that they’re known to some non-related men as “the tall one”, “the pretty one”, “the fair/dark one”, “the red headed one”, “the one with the beautiful [insert features]” all due to the negligence of her companions. Often, some sisters will not reveal such details about their friends to the male family members directly, but to other women in places where the men can and do hear the conversation, and therefore they still come to know about the denoscription of other women. This is pure negligence on the part of the women, and results in great evil in families, friendships, and society at large.

And what’s related to this matter is those who may be careful about physically describing their sisters in Islām, but they have no issue describing every other thing about their personalities, lives, habits, likes, and dislikes. Beware sisters, this is a gateway to Fitnah and a breach of the Amānah of your sisters! Why should your husband, brother, or father need to know how funny, witty, emotional, or soft spoken your friends are? There are certain qualities that Muslim women seek to hide from non-related males in attempts to ward off Fitnah from themselves, but many of the women around them insist on instigating it for them instead, والله المستعان. Beware of unintentionally describing the “desirable” qualities of your friends/relatives to the men in your life when there is no need to do so, lest you stir up some type of desires that may lead to great ruin. And the men have a duty to censor their womenfolk when they hear them engaging in such talk in their presence. Remind them of the Hadīth quoted above and the duty they owe to their sisters in preserving their privacy and modesty.

This all applies to all Muslim women in general, but one should caution to the sisters to take even more care and act with even more vigilance when speaking about their Niqābi sisters. Those who have donned the Shar’ī Niqāb have usually gone through a lot of difficulty to maintain the peak of modesty in their physical appearance, and it’s only right that one should practice the peak of caution when mentioning them personally. We know some sisters who even refuse to refer to their veiled friends by name around non-Mahrams out of respect to their Hayā’, only referencing them as “so and so’s wife/sister/daughter” instead. Don’t be the friend that forcefully unveils her sister before the entire world when she sought to remain hidden from its sight.

May Allāh سبحانه وتعالى forgive us, guide us, and rectify our mistakes. May He protect the modesty of the Muslimāt and increase them in it.

— Al Qawāreer

When Allāh blesses you with free time and resources, take advantage and give your all to ‘Ibādāt & Da’wah — and savor and enjoy it! You never know when, but a time will come upon you when you will only be able to look back and reminisce on what you were able to do when you had the ability.

Times change, people change, responsibilities pile, worries increase, free time dwindles, resources slip away, and ideas become inexecutable, among many other possible obstacles.

A wise Muslim exerts himself to the utmost level to ensure that he will have the least possible amount of regret about where he spent his best and easiest days.

May Allāh سبحانه وتعالى enable us to do what He loves and what pleases Him.

"We should not eat Turkey and say our intention was otherwise; there are 364 days in the year for you to enjoy your Turkey, to choose that day (Thanksgiving) specifically is symbolically participating in their holidays."

— Shaykh Ahmad Musa Jibril حفظه الله

— copied from Haqq Hurts Hypocrites

American “Muslims” will cancel Thanksgiving due to its genocidal roots, but not because the Messenger of Allāh ﷺ forbid celebrating the holidays of Jahiliyyah and commanded us to be different from the disbelievers.

To most, being “woke” and politically correct is more important than being Muslim. Your Dhabīha Turkey doesn’t make it Halāl!

“But we’re just having a family dinner because I’m off and so are the kids, we’re not really celebr—“

Stop fooling yourself. That’s celebration. Call it whatever you want, that doesn’t change the reality. May Allāh guide us!

📖 An excellent booklet emphasizing the importance of not only avoiding celebrating the holidays of the disbelievers, but avoiding the disbelievers all together during their celebrations!

The Shaykh حفظه الله cites proof from the Qur’an and Sunnah, the Statements of the Sahābah, and Scholars.

A must read for you and your family. May Allah guide us to what He Loves.

"When they stand for hours, nights & days on Black Friday to save a few perishable $$$'s, stand before Allah to earn the everlasting Firdaws."

— Shaykh Ahmad Musa Jibril حفظه الله

Q. My children have recently been exposed to the concept of birthdays. They saw children blowing out candles on a cake after singing them a birthday song. My question is, is it permissible to put candles on an Eid cake and have the kids blow it out so they don’t feel left out?

A. Absolutely not. You cannot do that. This becomes imitating the unbelievers in their festivals and celebrations. You’re imitating birthdays and attempting to put an Islamic twist on it. In reality, this exposes children to watering down their religion from a young age to fit the customs and cultures of the unbelievers over standing firmly and steadfast to the rope of Allah. What happens when Muslims are ignorant about concepts such as this and view it to be minor, you end up eventually seeing Muslim families having a Turkey on thanksgiving or a roast dinner on Christmas in the name of “just spending time with the family” or “just eating a dinner together.” Some go as far as even putting up trees in their homes during Christmas and decorating it with all sorts of excuses like “a creative activity for the kids” or “my children will feel left out.” They do everything the unbelievers do but remove the name thinking it’s then permissible. You are only fooling yourselves. You’re stripping away the solid Islamic foundation Islam instructs. We have firm, Islamic, Monotheistic, non-comprisable beliefs. The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said: “Whosoever imitates a people is one of them.”

Islam covers every aspect of our lives, you cannot give something you don’t have and that’s why knowledge of this religion is crucial for everyone! We are proud of our ways and that’s also a reason why we are prohibited to imitate the unbelievers, because it shows a preference, a loyalty and love for their ways over ours. It is a defeatist mentality right from the beginning. Allah said (interpretation of the meaning): “This day I have perfected for you your religion, and completed My Blessing upon you, and have approved for you as religion, Submission (Islam).”

- Shaykh Musa Jibril حفظه الله
https://news.1rj.ru/str/LightOfTheTruth

May Allah swiftly bring an end to Bashar and the rest of the Tawaghît, and may the true implementation of Sharia flourish in Bilad al-Sham and beyond, guided by the righteous hands of the pure Muwahidîn.

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Ahmad Musa Jibril
Jmd. I 29, 1446 AH

It’s depressing how casually some allegedly “practicing” youth engage in sins that people used feel ashamed to even take the name of.

You hide from people and fear being exposed to them, yet you have no awareness that you are in the sight of Allāh day in and day out with no barrier? What a deficiency in Īmān and what a calamity…When one remembers Allāh’s Watchfulness over him, he should immediately feel humbled, exposed, and at risk of His Punishment snatching him up from where he doesn’t expect. But today, to many, Allāh سبحانه وتعالى is the least important of the ones they fear seeing their sins.

We come across reminders such as those warning sisters not to flirt with brothers in private chats and to not engage in exchanging indecent photos, and I can’t help but question, “Does a believing women even think of doing that?”

Reminders warning brothers to avoid watching the major Fawāhish (that will not be named), but SubhānAllāh, you question, “Does a Mu’min really go that far?”

Reminders only stem from a need for them, so when one sees reminder after reminder warning the believers to avoid the immorality, indecency, language, behavior, and mannerisms of the Kuffār, which is only Fāhishah and vulgarity, it gets you wondering, “How bad has it gotten that those who claim to be guided and display shows of Iltizām are in need of having these issues addressed to them?”

Not a question that one really wants an answer to, to be honest.

نسأل الله السلامة

Allahu Akbar! Walhamdulillahil lathee bi ni'matihi tatimmus saalihaat!

Every Muslim feels immense joy upon the overthrow of any Tāghūt, even if the change is led by another Tāghūt.

Ibn Kathīr stated that Allah deals with the oppressors by allowing some to dominate others, bringing about the destruction of some through others, and taking vengeance upon them through each other, as recompense for their injustice and transgressions.

This joy is particularly pronounced when witnessing the release of innocent Muslim prisoners, especially our sisters, and the restoration of rights to individuals, including their homes, lands, and cities. However, our deepest joy is found only when the pure Sharī’ah of Allah is fully implemented across the territories.

The retreat of the enemy from a town and the fall of its Tāghūt is not considered a Shar’ī “liberation” until the country is governed by the Laws of Allah and the secular laws that have hindered the implementation of these Divine Laws are eliminated.

Replacing a rusted Tāghūt with a polished Tāghūt who doesn't implement the pure Sharī’ah of Allah cannot be considered “liberation” or “freedom”. Rather, it's merely a repetition of oppression and a reproduction of Tughyān.

Liberating territories in the name of "freedom" may lead to some vanishing worldly benefits, whereas liberating lands to establish Sharī’ah is the goal that will grant one a Jannah more expansive than both heaven and earth.

Today, we express our gratitude to Allah for allowing us to witness the decline of one of the most prominent oppressors of our time. We pray that Allah fills our hearts with joy as we observe the demise of the remaining tyrants, enabling us to live under the shade of Tawheed in those areas, under the governance of the pure righteous Muwahideen.

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Ahmad Musa Jibril
Jmd. II 6, 1446 AH

My grandfather رحمه الله was a fairly wealthy man, yet he was humble in his living. He disliked pomp and excess, and intensely despised showing off. While others of his social status and wealth poured their money into building customized homes for themselves and making sure their wealth was apparent in their lifestyle, my grandfather kept his large family in a modest, rented home his whole life. Despite always ensuring that his families necessities were imported goods of the finest quality, he made sure their living was relatively unassuming. His habit was to always provide the most excellent provision to his household, but also to never have any excess of anything or to have anything frivolous.

Building a home for them was always something he shied away from, but when it got to a point where he had an entire football team of kids, his wife began to insist. My grandmother couldn’t understand why he was so charitable to others, consistently donating money to repair and furnish the homes of those less fortunate and fulfilling their needs, yet he remained perverse about erecting his own. Seeing as living with so many children in small homes and constantly moving was becoming impossible, she began to push him and persuade him to build them a permanent home that could house them comfortably. However, he would always respond, “I don’t want to build a house in this world, I hope to only have a home in the hereafter.”

Further down the line, when the matter became unavoidable, he finally resolved to build his family a home. True to his habit of only settling for the best standard available, he hired one of the most distinguished architects in the country to develop the blue print. Once it was time to break ground, my grandfather said, “First I will build one of Allāh’s houses, and only then will I build my own.” And he instead began the construction of a Masjid. But as Allāh had willed it, before construction could get past the foundations of the building, my grandfather رحمه الله passed into the next life. My uncle completed the construction of the Masjid with the money he left behind, and my grandfather left to the home of the Hereafter, having fulfilled his deep-seated aspiration of never having built any home for himself in this Dunyā.

We ask Allāh سبحانه وتعالى that he have a spacious and lofty home near his Rabb in Firdaws instead, that He makes his dwelling in the grave comfortable and spacious for him, and to forgive his shortcomings. Many are those who speak of living in this life like a traveler, but few are the men who internalize it and truly live every day in wait of their departure.

— shared

“May Allāh keep us healthy into our old age. During one’s younger years, the hustle and bustle of life and its responsibilities distracts you from worshipping as you should, and you don’t have much understanding either. In old age, you realize the value of what you missed out on and desire to make it up, yet deteriorating health prevents a person from worshipping as much as he wants. So a young person should take advantage of his age and worship, and realize he’ll never get the ability he has to worship in these years back. A person will wistfully wish for strength of his youth when he wants to stand before Allāh when he’s old.”

— Advice from one of my parents, may Allāh preserve them and grant them a lengthy, blessed life.

“I say, and I know from experience, I wouldn't recommend it [marrying women of Ahl Al-Kitāb]. Actually, I believe it's Harām for a Muslim to marry a non-Muslim woman, although originally it's Halāl. No one can say it's Harām [generally], but the situation changed to the point that I believe it's Harām. Anyone who asks me about it, I tell him, “You shouldn't do it.” Why? Because when the man used to marry a non-Muslim woman, he was the man who could divorce her and bring her back. She was under his control. More than that, he had control over the kids you know, she's not going to take them and raise them in a church, he's going to take them under an Islāmic Khilāfah and raise them himself.

Today, I know a guy who’s supposedly named a Shaykh. He divorced his wife, an American who stayed 15 years with him. والله, his children today are Christians. He passed away, may Allāh forgive him. And it's not an exception, this is the norm, so it's dangerous to marry them now. If you want to take her and take her overseas to a country where at least they give you the kids — the main thing is the kids, you know — if you can do that, then we say that the situation is different. But the way the situation is in the United States, as you know — especially in Michigan where the laws side with the woman more than any other state probably — so this is not Islāmic. If you know you may be a cause for a new generation to become Christian, Catholics, or Jewish, then you're going to be cursed by Allāh. You know, they (your kids) are going to have kids and then they are going to have grandkids and they will probably continue to the last day before the Judgement Day. Who's the seed of this? You! So, that's dangerous.”

— Shaykh Ahmad Mūsā Jibrīl حفظه الله

Wise words and a wise opinion from the Shaykh, considering the reality of Western countries and marriages with Ahl Al-Kitāb among them. In fact, if you grew up in the West, you can attest to the fact that every single Muslim uncle you knew or heard of who married non-Muslim women and had children, their children today are not Muslims (والعياذ بالله). The pain in their eyes and voices as they beg others to not make the same mistake is evident, and their words reflect great grief over the disbelief of their progeny. It’s very sad that it took a Kāfir lineage and a messy divorce for many to learn their lesson and go back home to secure a Muslim wife. It’s punishment enough that they spend the rest of their days in regret, trying to bring their children to Islām or to convince them to even speak with them, and only Allāh knows what awaits in the Hereafter. May Allāh forgive them.

O All-Hearing,
O All-Responding,
O All-Knowing,
O Most Merciful,
O Most Generous,
O Most Compassionate,
O Bestower of Blessings,
O Most Loving,
Grant comfort to our sisters who have recently been imprisoned in Italy, in their solitude.
Relieve them from the loneliness and darkness of their confinement.
Fortify their iman, and send tranquility upon their hearts.
Ease their burdens, smooth their affairs, and purify their hearts.
Elevate their status, and grant them contentment and Your divine pleasure.
Protect them, O Allah, with Your protection.

O Allah, let Your servants and forces, both in the heavens and on earth, work in their favor.

O Allah, free our sisters in the camps of al-Hol and al-Rouj, and our brothers and sisters in the prisons of Idlib and beyond.

O Allah, grant them all freedom, peace, and safety, and reunite them with their families.

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Ahmad Musa Jibril
Jmd. II 25, 1446 AH