First duty of a Muslim husband is to provide spiritual guidance for his wife. - Dr Bilal Philips [official twitter, 15th May,2014]
Change is instantaneous, what takes time is decision to change. - Dr Bilal [twitter, 14 may,2014]
Bishr Ibn Al-Haarith: “You will not find the sweetness of worship until you place a barrier between yourself and your lusts.” (As-Siyar, 10/473)
“We all must suffer from one of two things, The pain of discipline or the pain of regret." -- Mirza Yawar Baig [Speech in Dhaka. 9-10 April, 2014]
To be safe from trial and thankful is more beloved to me than to be tested and patient. —Abū Bakr [d. 13H/634CE] [Ibn Battaal]
Allah will never burden you with something you cannot manage. If you are going through a test, believe you can get through it ... Sh. Sajid Ahmed Umar [alKautharInstitute, 09/06/2014]
Obedience and worship are easy in times of difficulty, but so difficult in times of ease. But we must worship Allah and follow His commands especially in the best of times. Dr Bilal [25-04-14]
It is reported that Muhammad b. Al-Hanafīyah – Allāh have mercy on him – said:Whoever has self respect does not give any value to the worldly life (dunyā).Ibn Al-Jawzī, Sifatu Al-Safwah 2:77.
When you're in pain, remember this: that He knows what He's doing with you. - Yasmin Mogahed [fb page, 04/04/2014]
No knowledge, no freedom, because ignorance is your first jail -- Tariq Ramadan [31 dec, 2013, twitter]
If you want to get married, ask Allah for 3 things in a spouse:
1. Grant me someone who will remind me of you.
2. Grant me someone who will hold my hands in jannah.
3. Grant me someone who will elevate my eeman.
-- Musleh khan [fb, june 4]
"Pleasing a human is very difficult, pleasing God is the easiest" -- Tariq Ramadan [official twitter, 23 October 2014]
Remain positive. Everything in your life has meaning, even if you don't know what it means now. -- Tariq Ramadan
Qaasim al-Joo’ee said:
“I advise you with five matters:
(1) when you are treated unjustly, do not behave unjustly;
(2) when you are praised do not become happy;
(3) when you are criticised, do not become upset;
(4) when you are not believed, do not become angry;
(5) and if the people act deceitfully towards you, do not act deceitfully towards them.”
(Related by Ibn al-Jawzee in Sifatus-Safwaa, 2/200)
Be humble. Don't let what you have make you believe it will last forever. Many who have had much more than us, now have nothing. May the Almighty protect us. -- Mufti Ismail Menk [ IOU fb, 22/06/2014]
Umar bin al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu) used to say: "Come, let us make our Iman arise, to thereafter remember Allaah." (ash-Sharee´ah, p. 117 by al-Aajurree)
Sayyidina, Imam 'Ali (God be pleased with him) advised his son, "Son! Fear God to the extent that if you were to meet to him with good equal to all the good done by humanity, he would not except it from you; and hope in him to the extent that if you meet him with evil equal to that done by all people, He would forgive you.'" [suhaib webb official fb, 29/06/2014]
Ibn Abi Mulaykah narrated:"'Ikrimah bin Abi Jahl used to press the Mushaf to his face and cry, saying: "The Book of my Lord! The Words of my Lord!""[Reported by 'Abdullah bin al-Mubarak in 'al-Jihad'; # 56]
Ibn Al-Jawzee: “Let the tears you shed in the darkness of the night be your intercessors for when you make mistakes.”(Kitaab Al-Lataa'if Fil-Waa'iz, p. 51)
It was said to Ibn Mas’ood (radiyAllahu'anhu): “We are not able to perform the qiyaam al-lail.” He replied, “Distance yourselves from your sins!”
(Lataa'if al-Ma'aarif pg. 98)
Ibn Qayyim: "Motions, stillness, speech and actions first take place after His (Allaah's) Permission and Will. Nobody moves without His Permission, nobody acts without His Will." (al-Fawaaid p. 92)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzi:"The Prophet (peace be upon him) established a relationship between the fear of Allah and good character, because fearing Allah improves the relation between the servant and Allah, and good character improves the relation between a person and others. Therefore, fearing Allah makes it possible for Allah to love him, and good manners makes it possible for people to love that person." (Al-Fawaa'id, pg.85)
The more you care how you appear to Allah, the less you will care how you appear to people. -- Yasmin Mogahed [official twitter, 14/06/2014]
"We don't doubt Islam, but we should doubt our understanding about Islam to avoid arrogance." -- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf [fb, 22/06/2014]
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself. —Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah [d. 751H/1350CE]
(Madarij as-Saalikeen, Volume 1, p.183, Maktabah Dar al-Bayyan)
Abd al-Qâdir al-Jilâni commented: "In the interest of your safety, and to avoid torment, speak little. Do not fill the pages of the book which records the actions of your life with gossips!. The Day of judgment, the only thing that will be useful for you is the remembrance of God. " [Tariq Ramadan fb, 16/07/2014]
Imam Abu Hanifah and a man from Basrah were partners in a business. On one occasion, Abu Hanifah sent 70 expensive garments to him, sending with them a note which read: "One of them is defective, and it is such and such garment, so when you sell it, make sure that you point out the defect (to the buyer). The man sold them for 30,000 dirhams and when he came with the money to Abu Hanifah, he asked, "Did you point out the defect?" He said, "I forgot.' Abu Hanifah took nothing from the profit, but instead gave it all in charity. (Gems and Jewels, pg. 124)
Dawud at-Ta’i: "Consider the life of the world like a day during which you fasted, and then broke your fast by the approaching of death." (Sifatus-Safwah, 3/134)
Change is instantaneous, what takes time is decision to change. - Dr Bilal [twitter, 14 may,2014]
Bishr Ibn Al-Haarith: “You will not find the sweetness of worship until you place a barrier between yourself and your lusts.” (As-Siyar, 10/473)
“We all must suffer from one of two things, The pain of discipline or the pain of regret." -- Mirza Yawar Baig [Speech in Dhaka. 9-10 April, 2014]
To be safe from trial and thankful is more beloved to me than to be tested and patient. —Abū Bakr [d. 13H/634CE] [Ibn Battaal]
Allah will never burden you with something you cannot manage. If you are going through a test, believe you can get through it ... Sh. Sajid Ahmed Umar [alKautharInstitute, 09/06/2014]
Obedience and worship are easy in times of difficulty, but so difficult in times of ease. But we must worship Allah and follow His commands especially in the best of times. Dr Bilal [25-04-14]
It is reported that Muhammad b. Al-Hanafīyah – Allāh have mercy on him – said:Whoever has self respect does not give any value to the worldly life (dunyā).Ibn Al-Jawzī, Sifatu Al-Safwah 2:77.
When you're in pain, remember this: that He knows what He's doing with you. - Yasmin Mogahed [fb page, 04/04/2014]
No knowledge, no freedom, because ignorance is your first jail -- Tariq Ramadan [31 dec, 2013, twitter]
If you want to get married, ask Allah for 3 things in a spouse:
1. Grant me someone who will remind me of you.
2. Grant me someone who will hold my hands in jannah.
3. Grant me someone who will elevate my eeman.
-- Musleh khan [fb, june 4]
"Pleasing a human is very difficult, pleasing God is the easiest" -- Tariq Ramadan [official twitter, 23 October 2014]
Remain positive. Everything in your life has meaning, even if you don't know what it means now. -- Tariq Ramadan
Qaasim al-Joo’ee said:
“I advise you with five matters:
(1) when you are treated unjustly, do not behave unjustly;
(2) when you are praised do not become happy;
(3) when you are criticised, do not become upset;
(4) when you are not believed, do not become angry;
(5) and if the people act deceitfully towards you, do not act deceitfully towards them.”
(Related by Ibn al-Jawzee in Sifatus-Safwaa, 2/200)
Be humble. Don't let what you have make you believe it will last forever. Many who have had much more than us, now have nothing. May the Almighty protect us. -- Mufti Ismail Menk [ IOU fb, 22/06/2014]
Umar bin al-Khattaab (radiyAllahu'anhu) used to say: "Come, let us make our Iman arise, to thereafter remember Allaah." (ash-Sharee´ah, p. 117 by al-Aajurree)
Sayyidina, Imam 'Ali (God be pleased with him) advised his son, "Son! Fear God to the extent that if you were to meet to him with good equal to all the good done by humanity, he would not except it from you; and hope in him to the extent that if you meet him with evil equal to that done by all people, He would forgive you.'" [suhaib webb official fb, 29/06/2014]
Ibn Abi Mulaykah narrated:"'Ikrimah bin Abi Jahl used to press the Mushaf to his face and cry, saying: "The Book of my Lord! The Words of my Lord!""[Reported by 'Abdullah bin al-Mubarak in 'al-Jihad'; # 56]
Ibn Al-Jawzee: “Let the tears you shed in the darkness of the night be your intercessors for when you make mistakes.”(Kitaab Al-Lataa'if Fil-Waa'iz, p. 51)
It was said to Ibn Mas’ood (radiyAllahu'anhu): “We are not able to perform the qiyaam al-lail.” He replied, “Distance yourselves from your sins!”
(Lataa'if al-Ma'aarif pg. 98)
Ibn Qayyim: "Motions, stillness, speech and actions first take place after His (Allaah's) Permission and Will. Nobody moves without His Permission, nobody acts without His Will." (al-Fawaaid p. 92)
Imam Ibn Qayyim al-Jawzi:"The Prophet (peace be upon him) established a relationship between the fear of Allah and good character, because fearing Allah improves the relation between the servant and Allah, and good character improves the relation between a person and others. Therefore, fearing Allah makes it possible for Allah to love him, and good manners makes it possible for people to love that person." (Al-Fawaa'id, pg.85)
The more you care how you appear to Allah, the less you will care how you appear to people. -- Yasmin Mogahed [official twitter, 14/06/2014]
"We don't doubt Islam, but we should doubt our understanding about Islam to avoid arrogance." -- Shaykh Hamza Yusuf [fb, 22/06/2014]
And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself. —Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah [d. 751H/1350CE]
(Madarij as-Saalikeen, Volume 1, p.183, Maktabah Dar al-Bayyan)
Abd al-Qâdir al-Jilâni commented: "In the interest of your safety, and to avoid torment, speak little. Do not fill the pages of the book which records the actions of your life with gossips!. The Day of judgment, the only thing that will be useful for you is the remembrance of God. " [Tariq Ramadan fb, 16/07/2014]
Imam Abu Hanifah and a man from Basrah were partners in a business. On one occasion, Abu Hanifah sent 70 expensive garments to him, sending with them a note which read: "One of them is defective, and it is such and such garment, so when you sell it, make sure that you point out the defect (to the buyer). The man sold them for 30,000 dirhams and when he came with the money to Abu Hanifah, he asked, "Did you point out the defect?" He said, "I forgot.' Abu Hanifah took nothing from the profit, but instead gave it all in charity. (Gems and Jewels, pg. 124)
Dawud at-Ta’i: "Consider the life of the world like a day during which you fasted, and then broke your fast by the approaching of death." (Sifatus-Safwah, 3/134)
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