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2022-09-01 02:08:46 Ibn Masʿūd رضي الله عنه said:

إِن العبد ليهم بالأَمر من التجارة والإِمارة حتى ييسر له، فينظر اللَّهُ إِليه فيقول للملائكة: اصرفوه عنه، فإِنه إِن يسرته له أَدخلته النّار، فيصرفه اللَّه عنه،فيظل يتطيًر يقول: سبقني فلان دهاني فلان، وما هو إِلَّا فضل اللَّه عز وجل

"Indeed, a person will embark upon an affair of business or a position of authority until it becomes easy for him and he is close to achieving it. Then Allāh will look at him and say to the angels: 'Turn that away from him, for surely if I facilitate this for him, I will enter him into the Hellfire (due to it)." So Allāh will turn this affair away from him.

The person will continue to see this as a bad thing and will say: 'So and so beat me to this, so and so outsmarted me.' But in reality it is a blessing from Allāh."

[Ḥayāt al-Salaf, p. 238] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2022-08-25 03:34:34 Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

ومن عقوباتها: أنها تُوقعُ الوحشةَ العظيمةَ في القلب، فيجد المذنب نفسَه مستوحشًا، قد وقعت الوحشة بينه وبيّن ربه، وبينه وبيّن الخلق، وبينه وبيّن نفسه. وكلّما كثرت الذنوب اشتدّت الوحشة

"And from the punishments of sins is that they place severe loneliness in the heart. Thereupon, the sinner finds himself lonely. Loneliness occurs between him and his Lord, and between him and the creation, and between him and himself. And whenever the sins increase, the loneliness intensifies."

[Al-Dāʾ wal-Dawāʾ, 1/182] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2022-05-16 17:10:58 Imām al-Bukhārī رحمه الله brings under the chapter heading: 'A person preferring some people with certain knowledge to the exclusion of others' the statement of ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib who said: حدثوا الناس بما يعرفون، اتحبون ان يكذب الله ورسوله؟ "Narrate to the… باز کردن / نظر دهید

2022-05-16 17:09:54 Imām al-Bukhārī رحمه الله brings under the chapter heading: 'A person preferring some people with certain knowledge to the exclusion of others' the statement of ‘Alī b. Abī Ṭālib who said:

حدثوا الناس بما يعرفون، اتحبون ان يكذب الله ورسوله؟

"Narrate to the people what they are familiar with; do you want Allāh and His Messenger to be denied?"

[Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, 127] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2022-02-23 18:01:55 Sh. Muḥammad al-ʿUmarī حفظه الله said:

‌‏قد يهبك غيرك مالا فتراه أكرمك وأعطاك آخرشفاعة فتراه أحسن إليك ولكن قد لا تنتبه لمن أعطاك وقتا يستمع إلى اتصالكأو يستقبل زيارتك وغير ذلك من وقته الوقت هو العمر، ومن أعطاك من وقته فقد أعطاك من عمره

"Someone might give you money, and you'd think he was generous to you, and another might intercede for you, and you'd think he was kind and good to you, but you might not pay attention to the one who gave you from his time. He listens to your call, welcomes your visit, and suchlike of giving you from his time. And life is but time, and so he who gives you from his time has given you (a portion) from his life."

[Taken from the Shaykh's Twitter account: @m_g_alomari - 16/02/2022] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2022-01-24 00:36:02 Sufyān al-Thawrī رحمه الله said:

‎السَّلامة في أن لا تُحب أن تُعرف

‎"Safety lies in not wanting to be known."

‎[Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʿ, 7/258] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2022-01-21 17:59:12 Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

"...and likewise loving the Speech of Allāh, indeed it is from the signs (of your love) for Allāh. If you want to know how much love you, and other than yourself, have for Allāh, then look to how much love you have for the Qur’ān in your heart. The delight you find in listening (to the Qur’ān) is greater than the delight the people of amusement and music find in their listening to melodious sounds. It is known that he who loves someone will love his speech and conversation more than anything else. As it was said:

'If your claim of loving (Allāh) was true, then why do you abandon His Book, have you not pondered upon what it contains of delightful speech?'

And ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān رضي الله عنه said:

"If our hearts were pure, we would never be tired of the Speech of Allāh."

[Al-Jawāb al-Kāfī, 1/236] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2021-12-31 21:10:03 Imām al-Muzanī رحمه الله said:

إياك من الكلام، ما إن أصبت فيه لم تؤجرْ، وإِن أخطأت توزر، وذلك سوء الظن بأخيك

"Beware of a (type of) speech that if you are correct about it, you are not (even) rewarded (for it), and if you are incorrect about it, you are sinful (for it). And that (type of speech) is having evil assumptions about your brother."

[Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ, 4/535] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2021-11-18 21:47:57 You'll Die Between Two Good Deeds...

Muʿādh b. Jabal رضي الله عنه advised his son:

يا بني إذا صليت فصلّ صلاة مودّع لا تظن أنك تعود إليها أبداً، واعلم يا بني أن المؤمن يموت بين حسنتين، حسنة قدمها وحسنة أخرها

"My son! Pray the prayer of he who is just about to leave, and realise that you might not be able to pray ever again. And know, my son, that the believer dies between two good deeds; one that he performed, and one that he intended to perform later on."

[Ṣifat al-Ṣafwa, 1/188] باز کردن / نظر دهید

2021-11-08 19:52:00 Sufyān al-Thawrī رحمه الله said:

إذا رأيت الشاب يتكلم عند المشايخ، وإن كان قد بلغ من العلم مبلغاً، فآيس من خيره، فإنه قليل الحياء

"If I ever saw a youth speaking in the presence of the scholars - even if he had reached some level of knowledge - then I lose all hope in his goodness. For indeed, he has little shyness."

[Al-Madkhal lil-Bayhaqī, p. 388] باز کردن / نظر دهید