When someone hurts you, your first thought may be to wish you had
never met them at all. But remember that even those who've hurt you,
came into your life for a reason, and left for a reason. It’s for the
best and healing starts with acceptance. ---Yasmin Mogahed
"Patience is a vitamin for the soul" - Boonaa Mohammed
"Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good." - Omar Suleiman
“When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah (SWT) favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation." -Nouman Ali Khan
"I have been asking my Lord for a thing for 20 years. And I have still not
received it, and nor have I given up hope."
-- Muwwarraq Al ’Ajli (Adab Shar’iyyah, 2/286) [iou]
Every gift has a price. Never despair when you're not given the gift you want. It may be that God knows you wouldn't be able to pay the price. --- Yasmin Mogahed
“The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah and it
will worry and be anxious if it is settled with people.”
– Ibn al-Qayyim
"Learn to be quiet just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quiet protects you. By being quiet, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you, and you are able to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you."
{Abu Adh-Dhiyal} Ash-Sheikh Muhammad Saeed Raslan about the manners of the Student of Islamic knowledge. From the book titled "Adab Tullaab Al-I'lm".
“Your souls are precious, and can only be equal to the price of Paradise. Therefore, sell them only at that price.” --Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A)
“The greatest of misfortunes is for a man to know of his shortcomings yet not show any concern or grief over them.” -Ibn Al-Mubarak
'Every statement in which Allah is not mentioned is a vanity. Every silence in which there is no thought of Him is carelessness. Every reflection in which there is no consideration of Him is an idle pastime.' -Ali ibn abi Taalib
“The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah and it will worry and be anxious if it is settled with people.” – Ibn al-Qayyim
“When Allah gives, it’s a gift. When Allah withholds, that too is a gift.” —Dr. Umar Abd-Allah
“When you lower your gaze you rise in status.” -AbdulBary Yahya
“Your speech will tell what is in your heart.” —Shaykh Ábd al-Qādir al-Jaylānī
"Don’t grieve at the parting. If it ended, it wasn't Real. If it was Real…it never ended.--Yasmin Mogahed
O Friend, the cloth from which your burial shroud will be cut may have already reached the market & yet you remain unaware! -- Imam al-Ghazali
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah.
-- Ibn Taymiyyah
Keep yourself busy in remembering your faults so that you have no time left to remember the faults of others. --Imam Sufyan ath-Thawri
For everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him. - Ibn al-Qayyim
Imam ibn al-Jawzi was once asked:
"Is it better for me to make Tasbeeh (praise Allah) or to make Istighfaar (seek forgiveness)?"
He replied: "The dirty robe is more in need of soap than perfume"
Do not become proud merely because you worship often, for consider what happened to Iblees after he spent a great deal of time worshipping.
-Hasan Al-Basri
The Muslim is a stranger amongst the non-Muslims.
The Mu'min (believer) is a stranger amongst the Muslims.
The Mohsin (one always in worship, successful one) is a stranger amongst the Mu'mineen.
--- Ibn al-Qayyim
And the heart is also a home. It is the home of the Angels, where they descend, where they reside. Despicable characteristics, such as anger, desires, belittlement, envy, arrogance, self-amazement, etc. are all barking dogs. So, how can the Angels enter such a place while it is crawling with dogs? - Imam Ghazali
Five things are associated with difficulty in life:
1) The heart is hard,
2) The eyes don't shed tears,
3) To have limited haya [modesty],
4) To desire the material world, &
5) To have lengthy hopes/desires in your life.
---- Al-Fuḍayl ibn `lyāḍ
“Not everyone is in harmony with himself, and not everyone treats himself as a friend, although he may think so. For man is generally his own enemy. He does not know it, but he proves it in his doings.” ---Imam al-Ghazali
We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are
those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.
-- Muhammad ibn Sireen
"Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining." -- Ibn Taymiyyah
"Whoever is not honored by fearing Allah, there is no honor for him" - Imam Shafie rahimahullah
'Knowledge is to be implemented not just repeated, even a parrot can repeat.' (AbdulBary Yahya)
“Know that your need of Allah accepting your charity is infinitely greater than the need of the one whom you give to your charity.” -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (rahimahullah)
"Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others." —Yasir Qadhi
Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan:"It is worse to be hopeless about the forgiveness of Allah than to sin." (al-Ittihaf, p. 524)
"If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?" Boona Mohammad
Shaykh al-Fawzaan:"The importance of Salaah in Islam is so great that even sitting and waiting for Salaah is considered worship itself!" (Fadhaa-il as-Salaah p. 13)
"Soft words soften the hearts that are harder than rock, harsh words harden hearts that are softer than silk." --Imam Al Ghazali rahimahullah
"If you want to destroy any nation without war, create adultery or nudity common in the young generation." -- Ṣalaḥ ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Salahuddin Ayyubi)
Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it. --Imaam ibn Al-Jawzee
Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah
This world is like a shadow, run after it and you will never be able to catch it, turn your back against it and it has no choice but to follow you. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah
Do not let the temporary and little charms of this world distract you & entice you and do not say tomorrow & tomorrow, for indeed you do not know when you will be heading to Allah. -- Hasan Al Basri
If you were to find out that your brother has done something bad, then you should look after an excuse for him, if you can’t find an excuse, you should say “He has an excuse.” -- Imam Muhammad ibn Sirin
If you want to benefit from the Qur’aan, gather your heart when it is recited (try to understand it), focus your hearing, and act like you are being directly addressed by Allah. -- Ibn al Qayyim
“Know that your need of Allah accepting your charity is infinitely greater than the need of the one whom you give to your charity.”-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (rahimahullah)
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah:
"O you who evaluate the matters, do you know the value of yourself? The universe was created for your sake." (al-Fawaa'id, p. 117)
My Lord tests me occasionally, but favors me daily.
- (Urwah ibn Zubair R.A)
Fudayl ibn Iyad said: "Doing an action for the sake of people is shirk and leaving an action for the sake of people is riya."
Once a pious man was asked, "Teach me how to love Allah," to which he said, "Loving Allah is not brought about by teaching."
- Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah
"A staunch friend and true medicine are hard to find, waste not your time."
- Imâm al-Shâfi’î rahimahullah
Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah said :
" Whoever becomes accustomed to tasbiḥ before sleeping, will be given energy and strength in performing his worldly and religious duties."
The Leader of the faithful `Umar bin Al-Khattab said,
“Never think ill of the word that comes out of your believing brother’s mouth, as long as you can find a good excuse for it.”
— Tafsir ibn Kathir (49:12)
"Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others."-- Ali Ibn abi Talib (r.a)
"Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation." --- Al Ghazali
'Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.' --- Imam Ghazali
Ibn Taymiyyah (ra) said:" Believer doesn't seek quarrel or revenge, nor does he find blame or fault in others."
“It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinkingkhamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don’t mind it?” -Ibn Taymiyyah
"There is no doubt that enabling women to mix with men is the basis of all calamities and evils, and it is one of the greatest causes of calamity that affects everybody, as well as being one of the causes of corruption in public and private affairs. Mixing of men with women is the cause of a great deal of immoral actions and zina, and it is one of the causes of widespread death and ongoing plagues."
(Al-Turuq al-Hukmiyyah p. 407)
Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy on him, said,
“Seek out your heart in three places: when listening to the Quraan, in the gatherings of [Allaah’s] remembrance, and when [alone] in privacy, and if you do not find it in these places, then ask Allaah to grant you a heart – for verily, you do not have one.”
Fawaaidul-Fawaaid, p. 479.
Between the eyes and the heart there is a connection which means that the one is affected by the other, and if one of them becomes good, the other will also become good, and if one becomes corrupt the other will become corrupt. If the heart becomes corrupt the gaze will become corrupt, and if the gaze become corrupt the heart will become corrupt, and similarly if one is sound the other will also be sound. — Imam Ibn ul-Qayyim (rahimahullah),
[Al-Jawaab al-Kaafee of Ibn al-Qayyim (p.125)]
Khalid ibn Ma’dan: "Whoever seeks praise by going against the truth, Allah will throw it back upon him as blame, and whoever faces blame in order to conform to the truth, Allah will return it as praise for him." (Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A’lam Al-Nubala' 4/540)
A man said to Hasan Al Basri : "Does Ibless sleep?"
He said: "If he slept we would have a break !"
Source: Ibn Al Jawzi 'Talbisu Iblees' page 52
Ibn Hibban:
"Where kindness does not benefit, neither does violence."
(ar-Rawdhah, p. 216)
Imaam Sadi (rahimahullaah) said:“And from the beneficial affairs is to know that the harm of the people on you, especially with regards to evil speech does not harm you; rather it harms them. (It does not harm you) unless you preoccupy yourself in giving it importance and allow it to dominate your emotions, then it will harm you as it harms them. Indeed, it will not harm you in anyway if you pay no attention to it.”
"To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.” ~ Imam Al-Ghazali"
“When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.”
-Ibn Taymiyyah
'Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.'
- Ali ibn Abu Talib (radiAllahu anhu)
"I fear the day when the disbelievers are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith." Umar ibn al-Khattab (Radi Allah Anhu)
'One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.'-Ali ibn Abi Talib
Abu Darda (ra) said:" To reproach your brother for something is better than to lose him altogether"
Eesa Ibn Maryam:
"Piety is in three: in speech, in in sight, and in silence. Whoever's speech is not in the remembrance (of Allah) has spoken nonsense. Whoever looks without trying to learn a lesson has forgotten (his true purpose). And whoever's silence is not accompanied with reflection has been heedless" .
Isa Ibn Maryam passed by gathering of Jews who spoke evil words to him to which he responded with kindness. It was said to him, "Why do you reply to their evil with good?" And he answered, "Each person spends from that which he has."
taken from a book "Don't be sad" by Aidh AL Qarni
Ibn Hazm (rahimahu Allah) said, "Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it."[Al-Akhlaq wal Siyar, P. 54]
"Indeed the people were not pleased with their Creator although He provides for them, so how can they be pleased with another creation like themselves?" - Al Bidaya wal-Nihaya ( 9/318)
"I fear the day when the disbelievers are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith."Umar ibn al-Khattab (Radi Allah Anhu)
Imam al-Shafi':
"Seek the response to your du'as when the armies meet, and the prayer is called, and when rain falls"
(al-Umm, al-Sahihah #1469)
'One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.' -Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ibraheem at-Tamimi once said:
"When a man wrongs me, i pay him back with an act of mercy"
"It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards for patience is worse." --- Abu Bakr RA
Imaam al-Auzaa`ee said:I heard Bilaal ibn Sa`d saying:
“Do not (pretend to) be the Walee (friend) of Allaah publicly, while being an enemy to Him secretly.”
[al-Hilyah (5/228)]
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"When men mix with women, it is like mixing fire and wood."
al-Istiqaamah, 1/361
Maymoon bin Mihran:
"Remembering Allah by your tongue is good, but the best remembrance of Allah is when one remembers Allah when he is doing a sin so he leaves it."
(Jaami' All-'Uloom Wa Al-Hikam 1/252-254)
"Above all other things, the one thing that I found to benefit a person most in this world and the Hereafter is a suitable friend."- Sufyān al-Thawrī [af]
“Whosoever shows you your faults, he is your friend. Those that pay you lip service in praise are your executioners.” Umar ibn al-Khattaab radiyAllahu’anhu [af]
A friend of mine asked me why it was so hard to let go. My answer: "Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us." -- Yasmin Mogahed
"The correct meaning of, ‘I am Your Servant’ indicates full submission, compliance, and repentance to Allah, as well as being obedient to one’s Lord and avoiding His prohibitions, depending on Him, seeking His help and support, seeking refuge in Him from evil, and finally being related to Him with feelings of love, fear and hope." -Ibn al-Qayyim
When you're in pain, don't focus on the pain. Focus on the One who heals all pain. When you're stuck, don't look at the Red Sea in front of you. Look at the One who can split it in two! -- Yasmin Mogahed
A man said to al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him), ‘O Abu Sa’eed, I am complaining to you of the hardness of my heart.’ He said, ‘Soften it with dhikr.’ The more forgetful the heart is, the harder it becomes, but if a person remembers Allah, that hardness softens as copper melts in the fire. Nothing can soften the hardness of the heart like the remembrance of Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. Dhikr is healing and medicine for the heart. Forgetfulness is a disease, the cure for which is remembrance of Allaah.”
(Al-Waabil al-Sayib wa Raafi’ al-Kalim al-Tayyib, 142). [ af]
Hope is only a prayer away -- Abdulbary Yahya
When we meet people on this same path, we love them immediately--from the deepest part of our soul. That's true love. Because it's based in Al Haqq, the Truth.
Don't confuse the pleasure of the flesh with the pleasure of the heart. And don't confuse the pain of the flesh with the pain of the heart. --- Yasmin Mogahed
One day, 'Abdullah, the son of al-Imam Ahmad, said to his father: "Advise me, father." So, he said: "My son, intend good. As long as you intend good, you'll always be in a state of good."
['al-Adab ash-Shar'iyyah'; 1/102]
"Do not find slow the answer to your du’aa when you have shut off its path with your sins."
- Yahyaa Ibn Mu’aadh (Rahimahullaah), As-Siyar, 13/15
Only when our internal state is not dependent on our external situation will our external situation change, and will we find real, lasting peace. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Nothing is given to the 'self-sufficient'. Charity is given only to the needy. The poor. The beggar. If you want to be given by God, be poor. Beg. -- Yasmin Mogahed
"Patience is a vitamin for the soul" - Boonaa Mohammed
"Allah is Most Merciful even when He sends us trials, for even His punishment is for our own good." - Omar Suleiman
“When you see someone who is not as religious, remember that you were once on the edge of the fire, and it was Allah (SWT) favor upon you to guide you. Arrogance will wipe away any goodness from the transformation." -Nouman Ali Khan
"I have been asking my Lord for a thing for 20 years. And I have still not
received it, and nor have I given up hope."
-- Muwwarraq Al ’Ajli (Adab Shar’iyyah, 2/286) [iou]
Every gift has a price. Never despair when you're not given the gift you want. It may be that God knows you wouldn't be able to pay the price. --- Yasmin Mogahed
“The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah and it
will worry and be anxious if it is settled with people.”
– Ibn al-Qayyim
"Learn to be quiet just as you learn to talk, because if talking guides you, being quiet protects you. By being quiet, you attain two characteristics: you are able to take knowledge from those more knowledgeable than you, and you are able to repel the ignorance of those more ignorant than you."
{Abu Adh-Dhiyal} Ash-Sheikh Muhammad Saeed Raslan about the manners of the Student of Islamic knowledge. From the book titled "Adab Tullaab Al-I'lm".
“Your souls are precious, and can only be equal to the price of Paradise. Therefore, sell them only at that price.” --Ali ibn Abi Talib (R.A)
“The greatest of misfortunes is for a man to know of his shortcomings yet not show any concern or grief over them.” -Ibn Al-Mubarak
'Every statement in which Allah is not mentioned is a vanity. Every silence in which there is no thought of Him is carelessness. Every reflection in which there is no consideration of Him is an idle pastime.' -Ali ibn abi Taalib
“The heart will rest and feel relief if it is settled with Allah and it will worry and be anxious if it is settled with people.” – Ibn al-Qayyim
“When Allah gives, it’s a gift. When Allah withholds, that too is a gift.” —Dr. Umar Abd-Allah
“When you lower your gaze you rise in status.” -AbdulBary Yahya
“Your speech will tell what is in your heart.” —Shaykh Ábd al-Qādir al-Jaylānī
"Don’t grieve at the parting. If it ended, it wasn't Real. If it was Real…it never ended.--Yasmin Mogahed
O Friend, the cloth from which your burial shroud will be cut may have already reached the market & yet you remain unaware! -- Imam al-Ghazali
A calamity that makes you turn to Allah is better for you than a blessing which makes you forget the remembrance of Allah.
-- Ibn Taymiyyah
Keep yourself busy in remembering your faults so that you have no time left to remember the faults of others. --Imam Sufyan ath-Thawri
For everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allah will never find anything to replace Him. - Ibn al-Qayyim
Imam ibn al-Jawzi was once asked:
"Is it better for me to make Tasbeeh (praise Allah) or to make Istighfaar (seek forgiveness)?"
He replied: "The dirty robe is more in need of soap than perfume"
Do not become proud merely because you worship often, for consider what happened to Iblees after he spent a great deal of time worshipping.
-Hasan Al-Basri
The Muslim is a stranger amongst the non-Muslims.
The Mu'min (believer) is a stranger amongst the Muslims.
The Mohsin (one always in worship, successful one) is a stranger amongst the Mu'mineen.
--- Ibn al-Qayyim
And the heart is also a home. It is the home of the Angels, where they descend, where they reside. Despicable characteristics, such as anger, desires, belittlement, envy, arrogance, self-amazement, etc. are all barking dogs. So, how can the Angels enter such a place while it is crawling with dogs? - Imam Ghazali
Five things are associated with difficulty in life:
1) The heart is hard,
2) The eyes don't shed tears,
3) To have limited haya [modesty],
4) To desire the material world, &
5) To have lengthy hopes/desires in your life.
---- Al-Fuḍayl ibn `lyāḍ
“Not everyone is in harmony with himself, and not everyone treats himself as a friend, although he may think so. For man is generally his own enemy. He does not know it, but he proves it in his doings.” ---Imam al-Ghazali
We used to say that those amongst us with the most sins are
those who spend their time talking about the sins of others.
-- Muhammad ibn Sireen
"Beautiful leaving (hajr), is to leave without harming, beautiful pardoning is to pardon without rebuking, and beautiful patience is to be patient without complaining." -- Ibn Taymiyyah
"Whoever is not honored by fearing Allah, there is no honor for him" - Imam Shafie rahimahullah
'Knowledge is to be implemented not just repeated, even a parrot can repeat.' (AbdulBary Yahya)
“Know that your need of Allah accepting your charity is infinitely greater than the need of the one whom you give to your charity.” -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (rahimahullah)
"Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others." —Yasir Qadhi
Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan:"It is worse to be hopeless about the forgiveness of Allah than to sin." (al-Ittihaf, p. 524)
"If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?" Boona Mohammad
Shaykh al-Fawzaan:"The importance of Salaah in Islam is so great that even sitting and waiting for Salaah is considered worship itself!" (Fadhaa-il as-Salaah p. 13)
"Soft words soften the hearts that are harder than rock, harsh words harden hearts that are softer than silk." --Imam Al Ghazali rahimahullah
"If you want to destroy any nation without war, create adultery or nudity common in the young generation." -- Ṣalaḥ ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub (Salahuddin Ayyubi)
Beware of every hour and how it passes, and only spend it in the best possible way, do not neglect yourself, but render it accustomed to the noblest and best of actions, and send to your grave that which will please you when you arrive to it. --Imaam ibn Al-Jawzee
Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah
This world is like a shadow, run after it and you will never be able to catch it, turn your back against it and it has no choice but to follow you. -- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah
Do not let the temporary and little charms of this world distract you & entice you and do not say tomorrow & tomorrow, for indeed you do not know when you will be heading to Allah. -- Hasan Al Basri
If you were to find out that your brother has done something bad, then you should look after an excuse for him, if you can’t find an excuse, you should say “He has an excuse.” -- Imam Muhammad ibn Sirin
If you want to benefit from the Qur’aan, gather your heart when it is recited (try to understand it), focus your hearing, and act like you are being directly addressed by Allah. -- Ibn al Qayyim
“Know that your need of Allah accepting your charity is infinitely greater than the need of the one whom you give to your charity.”-- Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah (rahimahullah)
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah:
"O you who evaluate the matters, do you know the value of yourself? The universe was created for your sake." (al-Fawaa'id, p. 117)
My Lord tests me occasionally, but favors me daily.
- (Urwah ibn Zubair R.A)
Fudayl ibn Iyad said: "Doing an action for the sake of people is shirk and leaving an action for the sake of people is riya."
Once a pious man was asked, "Teach me how to love Allah," to which he said, "Loving Allah is not brought about by teaching."
- Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah
"A staunch friend and true medicine are hard to find, waste not your time."
- Imâm al-Shâfi’î rahimahullah
Ibn Taymiyyah rahimahullah said :
" Whoever becomes accustomed to tasbiḥ before sleeping, will be given energy and strength in performing his worldly and religious duties."
The Leader of the faithful `Umar bin Al-Khattab said,
“Never think ill of the word that comes out of your believing brother’s mouth, as long as you can find a good excuse for it.”
— Tafsir ibn Kathir (49:12)
"Blessed is he whose own faults keep him from seeing the faults of others."-- Ali Ibn abi Talib (r.a)
"Do not allow your heart to take pleasure with the praises of people, nor be saddened by their condemnation." --- Al Ghazali
'Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.' --- Imam Ghazali
Ibn Taymiyyah (ra) said:" Believer doesn't seek quarrel or revenge, nor does he find blame or fault in others."
“It is strange that a person may find it easy to protect himself from: eating Haraam, oppression and injustice, adultery, theft, drinkingkhamr (alcoholic drinks), and from unlawful looking, but it is hard for him to restrain the movement of his tongue. How often do we see people who are very cautious about falling into shameful deeds or injustice, but their tongue lashes against the living and the dead and they don’t mind it?” -Ibn Taymiyyah
Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya:
"There is no doubt that enabling women to mix with men is the basis of all calamities and evils, and it is one of the greatest causes of calamity that affects everybody, as well as being one of the causes of corruption in public and private affairs. Mixing of men with women is the cause of a great deal of immoral actions and zina, and it is one of the causes of widespread death and ongoing plagues."
(Al-Turuq al-Hukmiyyah p. 407)
Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allaah have mercy on him, said,
“Seek out your heart in three places: when listening to the Quraan, in the gatherings of [Allaah’s] remembrance, and when [alone] in privacy, and if you do not find it in these places, then ask Allaah to grant you a heart – for verily, you do not have one.”
Fawaaidul-Fawaaid, p. 479.
Between the eyes and the heart there is a connection which means that the one is affected by the other, and if one of them becomes good, the other will also become good, and if one becomes corrupt the other will become corrupt. If the heart becomes corrupt the gaze will become corrupt, and if the gaze become corrupt the heart will become corrupt, and similarly if one is sound the other will also be sound. — Imam Ibn ul-Qayyim (rahimahullah),
[Al-Jawaab al-Kaafee of Ibn al-Qayyim (p.125)]
Khalid ibn Ma’dan: "Whoever seeks praise by going against the truth, Allah will throw it back upon him as blame, and whoever faces blame in order to conform to the truth, Allah will return it as praise for him." (Al-Dhahabi, Siyar A’lam Al-Nubala' 4/540)
A man said to Hasan Al Basri : "Does Ibless sleep?"
He said: "If he slept we would have a break !"
Source: Ibn Al Jawzi 'Talbisu Iblees' page 52
Ibn Hibban:
"Where kindness does not benefit, neither does violence."
(ar-Rawdhah, p. 216)
Imaam Sadi (rahimahullaah) said:“And from the beneficial affairs is to know that the harm of the people on you, especially with regards to evil speech does not harm you; rather it harms them. (It does not harm you) unless you preoccupy yourself in giving it importance and allow it to dominate your emotions, then it will harm you as it harms them. Indeed, it will not harm you in anyway if you pay no attention to it.”
"To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.” ~ Imam Al-Ghazali"
“When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other.”
-Ibn Taymiyyah
'Oh writer! An Angel watches over all you write. Make your writing meaningful for it will eventually return to you and you will be questioned about what you wrote.'
- Ali ibn Abu Talib (radiAllahu anhu)
"I fear the day when the disbelievers are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith." Umar ibn al-Khattab (Radi Allah Anhu)
'One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.'-Ali ibn Abi Talib
Abu Darda (ra) said:" To reproach your brother for something is better than to lose him altogether"
Eesa Ibn Maryam:
"Piety is in three: in speech, in in sight, and in silence. Whoever's speech is not in the remembrance (of Allah) has spoken nonsense. Whoever looks without trying to learn a lesson has forgotten (his true purpose). And whoever's silence is not accompanied with reflection has been heedless" .
Isa Ibn Maryam passed by gathering of Jews who spoke evil words to him to which he responded with kindness. It was said to him, "Why do you reply to their evil with good?" And he answered, "Each person spends from that which he has."
taken from a book "Don't be sad" by Aidh AL Qarni
Ibn Hazm (rahimahu Allah) said, "Glad-tidings to he who knows his own faults more than other people know it."[Al-Akhlaq wal Siyar, P. 54]
"Indeed the people were not pleased with their Creator although He provides for them, so how can they be pleased with another creation like themselves?" - Al Bidaya wal-Nihaya ( 9/318)
"I fear the day when the disbelievers are proud of their falsehood, and the Muslims are shy of their faith."Umar ibn al-Khattab (Radi Allah Anhu)
Imam al-Shafi':
"Seek the response to your du'as when the armies meet, and the prayer is called, and when rain falls"
(al-Umm, al-Sahihah #1469)
'One, who adopts patience, will never be deprived of success though it may take a long time to reach him.' -Ali ibn Abi Talib
Ibraheem at-Tamimi once said:
"When a man wrongs me, i pay him back with an act of mercy"
"It is difficult to be patient but to waste the rewards for patience is worse." --- Abu Bakr RA
Imaam al-Auzaa`ee said:I heard Bilaal ibn Sa`d saying:
“Do not (pretend to) be the Walee (friend) of Allaah publicly, while being an enemy to Him secretly.”
[al-Hilyah (5/228)]
Shaykh al-Islam Ibn Taymiyah (may Allah have mercy on him) said:
"When men mix with women, it is like mixing fire and wood."
al-Istiqaamah, 1/361
Maymoon bin Mihran:
"Remembering Allah by your tongue is good, but the best remembrance of Allah is when one remembers Allah when he is doing a sin so he leaves it."
(Jaami' All-'Uloom Wa Al-Hikam 1/252-254)
"Above all other things, the one thing that I found to benefit a person most in this world and the Hereafter is a suitable friend."- Sufyān al-Thawrī [af]
“Whosoever shows you your faults, he is your friend. Those that pay you lip service in praise are your executioners.” Umar ibn al-Khattaab radiyAllahu’anhu [af]
A friend of mine asked me why it was so hard to let go. My answer: "Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us." -- Yasmin Mogahed
"The correct meaning of, ‘I am Your Servant’ indicates full submission, compliance, and repentance to Allah, as well as being obedient to one’s Lord and avoiding His prohibitions, depending on Him, seeking His help and support, seeking refuge in Him from evil, and finally being related to Him with feelings of love, fear and hope." -Ibn al-Qayyim
When you're in pain, don't focus on the pain. Focus on the One who heals all pain. When you're stuck, don't look at the Red Sea in front of you. Look at the One who can split it in two! -- Yasmin Mogahed
A man said to al-Hasan al-Basri (may Allah have mercy on him), ‘O Abu Sa’eed, I am complaining to you of the hardness of my heart.’ He said, ‘Soften it with dhikr.’ The more forgetful the heart is, the harder it becomes, but if a person remembers Allah, that hardness softens as copper melts in the fire. Nothing can soften the hardness of the heart like the remembrance of Allah, may He be glorified and exalted. Dhikr is healing and medicine for the heart. Forgetfulness is a disease, the cure for which is remembrance of Allaah.”
(Al-Waabil al-Sayib wa Raafi’ al-Kalim al-Tayyib, 142). [ af]
Hope is only a prayer away -- Abdulbary Yahya
When we meet people on this same path, we love them immediately--from the deepest part of our soul. That's true love. Because it's based in Al Haqq, the Truth.
Don't confuse the pleasure of the flesh with the pleasure of the heart. And don't confuse the pain of the flesh with the pain of the heart. --- Yasmin Mogahed
One day, 'Abdullah, the son of al-Imam Ahmad, said to his father: "Advise me, father." So, he said: "My son, intend good. As long as you intend good, you'll always be in a state of good."
['al-Adab ash-Shar'iyyah'; 1/102]
"Do not find slow the answer to your du’aa when you have shut off its path with your sins."
- Yahyaa Ibn Mu’aadh (Rahimahullaah), As-Siyar, 13/15
Only when our internal state is not dependent on our external situation will our external situation change, and will we find real, lasting peace. -- Yasmin Mogahed
Nothing is given to the 'self-sufficient'. Charity is given only to the needy. The poor. The beggar. If you want to be given by God, be poor. Beg. -- Yasmin Mogahed
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