May 20, 2015

Pearls of Islamic Scholars : Quotes [15]

Whoever fears Allah, everything fears him.  And whoever does not fear Allah, Allah makes him fear everything.  —salaf

(Read on pg 30, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, Hasad: A Condemnation of Envy and Envious People. Tasdeeq Publishers. Doha:2010.)

"If you think Allah will not listen to your prayer because of your sins, remember the prayer of satan was accepted when he asked for more time."
-- Suhaib Webb [fb page, 08/02/2015]


​Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-‘Uthaymeen: Treat your wife the way you want your daughter to be treated. (Ash-Sharh Al-Mumti’, 12/381)
Abu al-Layth as-Samarqandee:"If when you are a child you are playing with other children.And if when you are a youth you are heedless due to amusements.And if when you are an old man you become weak.When will you then perform deeds for the sake of Allaah?" (Tanbeeh al-Ghaafileen 1/38)

​al-Awza'i : "A believer speaks little and does a lot, but a munafiq (hypocrite) does little and speaks a lot." [siyar a'lam al-nubala, 13/146]

"Laziness is an illness"-- Shaykh Akram Nadwi
[official facebook page, 12/02/15]

Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr as-Sadeeq: "The worst type of sin, is for the slave to belittle his own sinful activities." (al-Mujaalasah p. 398)

We forget though the pen is mighty, the tongue is mightier."
-- Hamza Yusuf [fb, 05-03-15]

Sufyaan ath-Thawree 161 AH (May Allah have mercy on him) said:“There is nothing more difficult upon me to observe than my intention, as it is always changing.” [Jaami’ ‘Uloom p. 16]

Abdullah ibn Mubaarak 171 AH (may Allah have mercy on him) said:“Perhaps a small deed becomes great because of the intention behind it, and perhaps a big deed becomes insignificant because of the intention behind it.”[Jaami’ ‘Uloom p. 16]

the sincerity of Yusuf (alayhis salam) to His Lord was greater than the beauty of the one that tried to seduce him. Ibn Taimiyyah
[imam omar suleiman fb, 15/4/15]

Abdur-Rahman Al-Awzaa’ee 157 AH (May Allah have mercy on him) was asked if Imaan increases. He said:
“Yes, until it becomes like a mountain”
He was then asked if it decreases and he said:
“Yes, until there remains nothing from it”
[Asbaab Ziyaadatil Imaan wa Nuqsaanihi p. 6]

Ibraaheem ibn Adham once passed through the market in Basrah. People gathered around him and asked:O Abu Ishaaq, Allah the Exalted says in his Book. ‘Call on me, I will answer your prayers’, but we have been calling on Him for a long time and He does not answer our prayers.

[Ibraaheem] replied, “O people of Basrah, your hearts have died in respect to ten things: First, you know Allah but you do not give Him His rights; second, you have read Allah’s Book but you do not act by it; third, you claim to love Allah’s Messenger – Allah’s peace and blessings be upon him – yet you abandon his Sunnah; fourth, you claim to be enemies to Shaytaan but you conform to [his ways]; fifth, you say you love Paradise yet you do not work for it; sixth, you say you fear The Fire yet you put yourselves closer to it [by sinning]; seventh, you say death is true but you do not prepare for it; eighth, you busy yourselves with the faults of others and disregard your own; ninth, you consume the favors of your Lord but are not grateful for them; and tenth, you bury your dead but take no lesson from them.”[Aboo Nu’aym, Hilyah Al-Awliyaa’ 8: 15, 16]

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