[نحن قوم أعزنا الله بالإسلام فإذا ابتغينا العزة بغيره أذلنا الله]
"We are a people whom Allah has honored with Islam, and if we seek honor through anything else, Allah will humiliate us."

أخرج ابن المبارك في الزهد (584) من طريق طارق بن شهاب قال:

Ibn Al-Mubarak narrated in Az-Zuhd (584) from the route of Tariq ibn Shihab, who said:

لما قَدِم عمر أرضَ الشام أُتي ببرذون فركبه، فهزَّه فكرهه فنزل عنه وركب بعيره، فعرضت له مخاضة فنزل عن بعيره ونزع موقيه، فأخذهما بيده، وخاض الماء وهو ممسك بعيره بخطامه أو قال: بزمامه

When Umar arrived in the land of Sham, a bardhun (which is a rare prized breed of Arabian stallion) was brought to him, so he rode it. It jolted, so he disliked it, dismounted it, and mounted his camel. Then, he encountered an area of shallow water, dismounted his camel, removed his footwear, held them in his hand, and waded through the water while holding his camel by its halter or, he said, its bridle.

فقال له أبو عبيدة بن الجراح: لقد صنعت اليوم صنيعًا عظيمًا عند أهل الأرض!

Abu Ubaidah ibn Al-Jarrah said to him: "Today, you have committed a great action (i.e., against the customs of nobility) in the eyes of the people!"

قال: - فصكَّ في صدره - ثم قال: أوَّه -يمد بها صوته- لو غيرُك يقول هذا يا أبا عبيدة!

Umar then struck his chest and said, "Oh"—prolonging his voice—"If (only) someone other than you said this, O Abu Ubaidah!

إنكم كنتم أذلَّ الناس، وأقلَّ الناس، وأحقر الناس، فأعزكم الله بالإسلام فمهما تطلبوا العزَّ بغيره يذلكم الله. 

You were the most humiliated of people, the fewest in number, and the most contemptible of people, and Allah honored you with Islam. So, whenever you seek honor through anything else, Allah will humiliate you."

I say: Its chain of narration is authentic.

- Arafat Al-Mohammadi

✍️ #تزوجها سلفية ولن تندم بإذن الله

▪️ #قال الشيخ مقبل الوادعي (رحمه الله): " من لم يتزوج سلفية مات أعزباً "
🔹تالله إنّ الزواج بالسلفية نعمة ..
لما تتڪاسل وتنتڪس تجدها لك بالمرصاد .
👈توصيك بالصبر و الصلاة .
👈وتذكرك هل قرأت أذڪارك !
👈هل قرأت وردك اليومي
👈أصليت النوافل !
🔹السّلفية إن أصابتك مصيبة في نفسك أو مالك أو ولدك تكون سند لك و تصبرك وتقول لك إن مع العسر يسرا أبشر بالفرج ولا تسخط ولا تقنطك من رحمة الله
بل تمسك على يديك وتقول : لا نقول إلا ما يرضي ربنا قدر الله وما شاء فعل
🔹تمَازحُك وتضاحڪك، تعيش معكِ على سنة النبي ﷺ ، فتُسابقُك تارة جرياً على الأقدام وتارة على مدارسة القرآن وعلى حفظ المتون و تذكر بالسنة و تُحذرك من البدعة

🔹نعم عليـك أن تفتخر بزوجتك السلفية التي تنهاك من الذهاب لأماكن الفتن و فيها اختلاط وفيها غناء وقلة حياء ..!
🔹أحسن الإختيار

Choose Wisely: Marry a Salafi Woman

Shaykh Abdullah b. Sulfīq al-Dhafīrī (حفظه الله) posted:
"✍️ #MarryASalafiWomanAndYouWillNotRegretIt (Allah willing)

▪️ Shaykh Muqbil Al Wadi'i (may Allah have mercy on him) said:

" من لم يتزوج سلفية مات أعزباً "
"He who does not marry a Salafi woman dies a bachelor."

Shaykh ‘Abdullah commented on this statement saying:

🔹تالله إنّ الزواج بالسلفية نعمة ..
🔹By Allah, indeed, marrying a Salafi woman is a blessing..

لما تتڪاسل وتنتڪس تجدها لك بالمرصاد .
When you become lazy or negligent, you'll find her caring and watchful over you.

👈توصيك بالصبر و الصلاة .
👉She advises you with patience and prayer.

👈وتذكرك هل قرأت أذڪارك !
👉And reminds you, have you recited your adhkar (remembrances of Allah)?

👈هل قرأت وردك اليومي
👉Have you read your daily portion (of the Quran)?

👈أصليت النوافل !
👉Did you pray the optional prayers!

🔹السّلفية إن أصابتك مصيبة في نفسك أو مالك أو ولدك تكون سند لك و تصبرك وتقول لك إن مع العسر يسرا أبشر بالفرج ولا تسخط ولا تقنطك من رحمة الله
🔹If a calamity befalls you, regarding yourself, your wealth, or your child, a Salafi woman will be your support, she will encourage you to be patient and will tell you that with hardship comes ease. Be optimistic about relief and do not be displeased or despair of Allah's mercy.

بل تمسك على يديك وتقول : لا نقول إلا ما يرضي ربنا قدر الله وما شاء فعل
Rather, she holds your hand and says: We only say what pleases our Lord. Allah decrees, and what He wills, He does.

🔹تمَازحُك وتضاحڪك، تعيش معكِ على سنة النبي ﷺ ، فتُسابقُك تارة جرياً على الأقدام وتارة على مدارسة القرآن وعلى حفظ المتون و تذكر بالسنة و تُحذرك من البدعة
🔹She jokes with you and laughs with you, lives with you according to the Sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ, competing with you at times in running and at times in studying the Quran, memorizing texts, reminding of the Sunnah, and warning against innovation.

🔹نعم عليـك أن تفتخر بزوجتك السلفية التي تنهاك من الذهاب لأماكن الفتن و فيها اختلاط وفيها غناء وقلة حياء ..!
🔹Indeed, you should be proud of your Salafi wife who prevents you from going to places of temptation, where there is mixing, singing, and immodesty..!

🔹أحسن الإختيار
🔹Choose wisely

“Fleeing to Allah: The Salaf & the Journey of Inner Growth” ebook is once again available. Kindle formatting issues have been corrected.

Read about the inward journey of servitude, steadfastness, character refinement & zuhd, as understood by the Salaf

والعجلة: التقدم بالشيء قبل وقته، وهي مذمومة. والسرعة: عمل الشيء في أول أوقاته، وهي محمودة. [القرطبي: 9/338]

And hastiness is: advancing something before its time, and it is blameworthy. And quickness is: doing something at the beginning of its time, and it is commendable. [Al-Qurtubi: 9/338]

📜💎The Humiliation of Ahl Al Bid’ah for Lying On Allah:

إن الذين اتخذوا العجل سينالهم غضب من
ربهم وذلة في الحياة الدنيا. وكذلك نجزي المفترين.

أعقبهم ذلك ذلا وصغارا في الحياة الدنيا، وقوله: "وكذلك نجزي المفترين" نائلة لكل من افترى بدعةً؛ فإن ذل البدعة ومخالفة الرشاد متصلة من قلبه على كتفيه، كما قال الحسن البصري: "إن ذل البدعة على أكتافهم؛ وإن هملجت بهم البغلات، وطقطقت بهم البراذين". ... وقال سفيان بن عيينة: كل صاحب بدعة ذليل. [ابن كثير: 2/238]

"Indeed, those who took the calf (for worship) will incur wrath from their Lord and humiliation in this worldly life. And thus do We recompense the fabricators."

Ibn Kathīr (رحمه الله):
“This was followed by humiliation and diminishment in the worldly life for them, and His saying: "And thus do We recompense the fabricators" applies to everyone who invents a bid’ah (heretical innovation); for the humiliation of bid’ah and the opposition to guidance is a burden upon their hearts and shoulders, as Al-Hasan Al-Basri said: "Indeed, the humiliation of innovation (bid’ah) is upon their shoulders; even if they ride upon the nicest mules or steeds." ... And Sufyan bin 'Uyaynah said: Every person of innovation is humiliated. [Ibn Kathir: 2/238]

💎Ramadan: The Month of Patience

Our Prophet (ﷺ) called Ramadan “the month of patience” ((شهر الصبر)).

He also informed us that victory & triumph only comes about by patience. النصر مع الصبر

✴️ Staying away from disobedience = patience

✴️ Staying consistent with habitual good deeds = patience

✴️ Holding back from incorrectly reacting to other’s mistreatment = patience

✴️ Enduring hunger & thirst = patience.


‎If we don’t learn & develop patience in this month, when will we?

➡️⭐️⭐️ The Simple Practical Approach of the Salaf to Learning the Qur’ān ⭐️⭐️⬅️

💎 The illustrious scholar Abu Muhammad Ibn Qutaybah (d. 276 AH رحمه الله) said:

ولم يفرض الله على عباده أن يحفظوا القرآن كله ولا أن يختموه في التعلم؛

"Allah did not obligate His servants to memorize the entire Quran nor to complete it in their learning.

وإنما أنزله ليعملوا بمحكمه ، ويؤمنوا بمتشابهه ، ويأتمروا بأمره ، وينتهوا بزجره ، ويحفظوا للصلاة مقدار الطاقة ، ويقرأوا فيها الميسور

Rather, He revealed it for them to:
👉 Act upon its clear verses,
👉 To believe in (the trueness of) its ambiguous ones [meaning that which they don’t fully understand yet],
👉 To follow His command,
👉 To heed His prohibition,
👉 To memorize for prayer what they are able to,
👉 And to recite in (prayer) what is easy."

📚[Ta’wīl Mushkal al Qur’ān, p. 210]

➡️⭐️⭐️ A Family that Recites the Qur’ān Have Angelic Support & Protection from Devils ⭐️⭐️⬅️

💎💎 The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said:

(( لا تجعلوا بيوتَكم مقابرَ . إنَّ الشيطانَ يِنْفِرُ من البيتِ الذي تُقرأُ فيه سورةُ البقرةِ ))

"Do not turn your houses into graves. Indeed, Satan flees from the house in which Surah Al-Baqarah is recited."

📚 Sahih Muslim (780) 📚


💎Abu Hurairah (رضي الله عنه) used to say:

«إِنَّ الْبَيْتَ لَيَتَّسِعُ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَتَحْضُرُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَتَهْجُرُهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ، وَيَكْثُرُ خَيْرُهُ أَنْ يُقْرَأَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ،

"Indeed, the home spaciously accommodates its people, angels frequent it, devils abandon it, and its goodness increases when the Quran is recited within it.

وَإِنَّ الْبَيْتَ لَيَضِيقُ عَلَى أَهْلِهِ وَتَهْجُرُهُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ، وَتَحْضُرُهُ الشَّيَاطِينُ، وَيَقِلُّ خَيْرُهُ أَنْ لَا يُقْرَأَ فِيهِ الْقُرْآنُ».

And indeed, the house becomes tight for its people, angels abandon it, devils frequent it, and its goodness decreases when the Quran is not recited within it."

📚 Collected by Abu Muhammad Al-Dārimī (d. 255 AH) in his Sunan (3352) with a sound chain of narration; also collected by Ibn al Mubarak (d. 181 AH) in Al-Zuhd and Ibn Abi Shaybah in Al Musannaf, with another chain of transmission 📚

This year’s significantly expanded 4th edition of Contemplating Over The Qur’ān is now available on Amazon.

Due to the scope of the project, it is being released in 2 volumes. The first covers the first third of the Qur’ān which are called the 7 Long Surahs.

I will be broadcasting daily talks from the book, and the second book should be available soon, Allah willing. Details to follow shortly:

amazon.com/dp/B0CXJLZ9R4

A great deal of work has went into this years edition. This fourth significantly expanded edition adds the main insights of each Surah, page-by-page, with simple details on how to comprehend the information and practically apply the directives found on each page of each Surah. There are no pages for note-taking this year because we added a considerable amount of study questions and special reading assignments, mostly based on Tafsīr al-Sa’di, mentioning this year in which verse exactly one can locate the answer. The connection of each Surah to the previous is also included, as well as the connection of each Surahs opening and closing passages and other scholarly gems.💎
May Allah bless us all to renew our love of His words this Ramadan and accept our worship

Allah willing, beginning this evening, I will start posting daily reminders on the main themes of each days Quran reading during this month. I will post links 🔗 to the reminders here, which will be uploaded to the following channel: https://www.youtube.com/@salaficulture
Any year’s edition of the book will aid in following along.

Even this years children’s edition can be benefited from by Muslims of all ages, as it includes simplified summaries of the main themes and co tents of each Surah.

The most recent edition is significantly expanded and is a very beneficial guide to Contemplating Over the Qur’ān.

Contemplating over the Quran For Kids: Volume 2: 1445/2024 https://a.co/d/ghov38S

Contemplating over the Quran: Fourth Edition: 1445/2024: Book One https://a.co/d/2EjjCzy

By Allah’s favor and grace, Contemplating the Quran 1445 (4th expanded edition) Book One is currently #1 in both the Islam & Quran categories on Amazon, on the second night of Ramadan.

May Allah reward you for your enthusiasm & encouraging support in this years-long project. a.co/d/gZ5InoW