The key to all goodness and the key to all evil
Shaykh ul-Islām ibn Taymiyyah [may Allāh have mercy on him] said:
“Truthfulness is the key to all goodness, just as lying is the key to all evil.”
Al-Istiqāmah, 1/467 | Shaykh ul-Islām ibn Taymiyyah [may Allāh have mercy on him]
Translation: Authentic Quotes
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Your Children
Shaykh ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Nasir al-Sa‘di (رحمه الله ) said:
“The people most deserving of your kindness and most entitled to your good treatment are your children, for they are trusts that Allah has placed with you. He has entrusted you with raising them in a righteous manner—nurturing both their bodies and their hearts.
Everything you do for them in this regard, whether small or great, is part of fulfilling your obligation and is among the best deeds that draw you closer to Allah. So strive in this and seek its reward from Allah.
Just as when you feed them, clothe them, and take care of their physical upbringing you are fulfilling a duty and are rewarded for it—then even more so when you nurture their hearts and their souls with beneficial knowledge, sound understanding, guiding them to noble character, and warning them against its opposites.”
📚 [Bahjat Qulūb al-Abrār wa Qurrat ‘Uyūn al-Akhyār, p.154]
Seek refuge from the misguiding Fitna
Explained by Shaykh Salih Āli Shaykh
Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee
Imam Ahmad said, “So I asked Allah to grant me the memorization of the Quran, but I did not ask for it in a state of well-being. So, I did not memorize the Quran except while in prison chained up.
No doubt this is a tremendous statement that shows that the person should be mindful in their supplication and always ask Allah the Exalted, for pardon and wellbeing. When you ask your Lord, ask that it be granted with well-being, for you do not know what may happen to you. Perhaps what you seek may come only through an illness that incapacitates you, or through the loss of your children and family, leaving you alone in your home. Perhaps it may come only through an exile that you neither desire nor choose. Therefore, always ask your Lord that His blessings come with pardon and well-being.
Like this is seeking refuge with Allah from Fitna (trials), meaning the Fitna that causes misguidance. Therefore, when a supplicant prays that Allah the Exalted, protects them from Fitna, scholars have said that it is best to seek refuge from the Fitna that misleads people. One should say: "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from the Fitna that misleads" or "from the Fitna that leads people astray." Or one may say, "O Allah, I seek refuge in You from being led astray in my religion," or something similar. This is because good things can also be a Fitna. Family can be a trial, and wealth can be a trial. These are things that a person inevitably deals with—one must marry, have children, and possess wealth; these are necessities of life. However, these are forms of trials that come from good things, yet they may lead some people astray.
For this reason, a person should seek refuge in Allah the Exalted, from misleading trials.
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Taken from: https://mtws.posthaven.com/seek-refuge-from-the-misguiding-fitna-explained-by-shaykh-salih-ali-shaykh
The happy one is...
Ibn Hajar Al-Asqalani (d. 852 H.) said:
”The happy one is the one who sticks to what the Salaf were upon, and avoids what was innovated by the Khalaf.(16)”. (17)
(16) Khalaf: The ones who came after the time of the pious Salaf, the successors..
(17) Fath Al-Bari by Ibn Hajar (13/267)
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Self-amazement
Bishr Ibn Haarith [رحمه الله] said:
❝Self-amazement is that you consider your deeds to be many and make little the deeds of the people or the deeds of others besides yourself.❞
[Hilyatul Awliyaa, (8/348) | Translated By Abu Mu'aawiyyah Abdullah al-Gambi]
Increasing in goodness &
repelling harm from oneself
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:
“If the servant is always grateful and seeking forgiveness, goodness will continually increase for him, and evil will be repelled from him.”
[Majmū‘ al-Fatāwā (14/262)].
Don't Move Into Her House
As-Saffarini (may God have mercy on him) said
Any man who lives under the financial support of his wife is stripped of goodness, for he has overturned the natural order upon which Allah created people namely, that men are maintainers of women and that men have a degree over them.
But in this case, she has become the maintainer over him, holding the advantage of spending on him and bestowing favour upon him. Accordingly, he returns to her in humiliation, for he is in need of what she possesses; and whoever is in need of something will inevitably be humbled before the one who holds that need. This is a condition befitting a wife, not a man. Yet this man has been deprived of goodness and the qualities of manliness. He has accepted humiliation and lowness, and has grown accustomed to comfort and ease until he has become dependent on them.
Whoever reaches such a state whose condition has declined to this level - there is no good in his life. Ruin be upon him and upon his pleasures.
As-Saffarini, Ghidha' al-Albab fi Sharh Manzümat al-Adab. Vol. 2, p. 394, - Salah
al-Iranee
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Avoiding Marriage to a Woman of Higher
Status, and Avoiding Moving in Her Home
as-Saffārīnī said;
"You should not marry a noblewoman above you in rank, for if you do so, you will continually suffer: from her pride over you, from her disregard for you due to your lower status in her eyes, from the belittling you receive from her, for if she grants you your marital rights, she will see it as giving you something you are not worthy of.
She will consider her acceptance of you a favour for which you ought to be grateful. And if she refuses you something, she will see herself as justified - because of her high status and your lowliness - and will not care about displeasing you."
as-Saffārīnī, Ghidhā’ al-Albāb fī Sharḥ Manẓūmat al-Ādāb. Vol. 2, p. 391
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The Fourteen Enemies
A man said to Abu Hāzim (may Allah have mercy upon him): Indeed you are strict. Abu Hāzim (may Allāh have mercy upon him) replied:
Why shouldn’t I be strict when I’m certainly being observed/watched by 14 enemies. As for four of them: A Shaytān (devil) who puts me to trial, a believer who envies me, a disbeliever (who wants to) kill me and a hypocrite who hates me. As for the (remaining) ten, from them are: The matter of hunger, thirst, heat, cold, nakedness, old age, sickness, poverty, death and the hell-fire. I don’t have the ability (to combat them all) except with a complete weapon. And I do not find a weapon to combat them with better than (the weapon of) at-Taqwā (having fear of Allah).
Source: Hilyatul-Awliyā 3/231
Translated by Abu Yusuf Khaleefah
17th of Shawwāl, 1437 (12-28-2015)
Masjid Nur Allah, Queens, NYC
Original Arabic
قال رجل لأبي حازم إنك متشدد ، فقال أبو حازم – رحمه الله:
” وما لي لا أتشدد وقد ترصدني أربعة عشر عدوا، أما أربعة:
فشيطان يفتنني، ومؤمن يحسدني، وكافر يقتلني، ومنافق يبغضني،
وأما العشرة فمنها:
الجوع، والعطش، والحر، والبرد، والعري، والهرم، والمرض، والفقر، والموت، والنار، ولا أطيقهن إلا بسلاح تام، ولا أجد لهن سلاحا أفضل من التقوى “
📓[3/231] المنتقى النفيس من كتاب (حلية الأولياء ، وطبقات الأصفياء) (3)
Having Knowledge Is One Thing…
Shaykh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah [رحمه الله] said:
«وليس كلّ من وجدَ العلم قَدرَ على التعبير عنه، والإحتجاج له ! فالعلم شيءٌ . وبيانه شيءٌ آخر . والمناظرة عنه، وإقامة دليله شيءٌ ثالث . والجواب عن حجّة مخالفهِ شيءٌ رابعٌ .»
❝Not everyone who finds knowledge is capable of expressing it, and using it as evidence.
Therefore, knowledge is one thing and clarifying it is another matter.
Debating about knowledge and establishing the proof is the third matter.
Responding to the evidences of the one who opposes the proof is a fourth matter.❞
[Jawab Al-Itiradaat Al-Misareeyah Ala Al-Futeeyah Al-Hamaweeyah, (Page: 44) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya].
Text taken from: https://followingthesunnah.com/having-knowledge-is-one-thing/
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Abandoning the Obligatory Prayer
Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said:
“There is no disagreement among the Muslims that deliberately abandoning an obligatory prayer is among the gravest of sins and the greatest of major offenses. Its sin is greater than that of killing a soul or taking people’s wealth.
Such a person exposes himself to the punishment, anger, and disgrace of Allah in this world and the Hereafter.”
📚[As-Salah wa Ahkam Tarikiha, p. 31]
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Ibn Hazm (رحمه الله) said:
“There is no affliction more harmful to knowledge and its people than intruders into it — those who are not from its true people. They are ignorant yet think they know, they corrupt yet believe they are righteous.”
[Madaawat al-Nufoos, p. 67].
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STRENGTH IS NOT IN HARSHNESS
Whoever has a despicable character, little dignity and no mercy then this will appear in his dealings with those who are weak. Rather, treating the weak unjustly is the way of the weak. If they truly had a strong, tough character, then they would not treat those deserving of mercy harshly. That is why whosoever controls himself when interacting (with the weak) then their excellence is evident.
Book: The Structure of the Muslim Family
By Shaykh Muhammad Amān al-Jamī
Translated by Hassan Somali
P. 28, 29
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What Prevents A Person From
Following The Messenger
Shaykh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah [رحمه الله] said:
«الذي يمنع الإنسان من اتّباع الرّسول صَلّى الله عَليْهِ وسَلّم؛ شيْئانِ: إمّا الجهل ، وإِمّا فساد القصد.»
❝That which prevents a person from following the Messenger [ﷺ] are two matters: either ignorance or either corrupt intent.❞
[Majmoo Al-Fatawa, (15/93) | Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath Al-Anbiyya]
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FOR HIM IS THE FIRE!
The sign of knowledge that does not benefit is pride, arrogance, and conceit. Such a person seeks high position and ranking in this world and competes for it. He debates with the scholars with the aim of defeating them, and argues with the foolish with the aim of directing their attention towards him. It is reported from the Prophet, peace and blessing be upon him, that whoever seeks knowledge for this purpose, "for him is the Fire, the Fire!" *
* Ibn Mājah #254 and ibn Hibbān #290 on the authority of Jābir.
Book: The Excellence of Knowledge
By Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalī
Daar us-Sunnah Publishers
P. 60
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GOOD TREATMENT OF OTHERS
Good manners with the people are comprised in connecting with those who have severed their ties with you by greeting and honouring them, praying and seeking forgiveness for them, and praising and visiting them. They also involve giving to those who have refused to give their knowledge, help, or money to you, and pardoning those who have wronged you by harming your person, wealth, or honour.
Book: Gardens of Purification
By Shaykhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah
Translated and Published by
Dār as-Sunnah Publishers
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Ibn Taymiyyah: Corruption on earth is
due to disobedience and Shirk
Shaykh Rabee': 'In these times,
injustice has proliferated'
Shaykh Rabee‘ bin Hādi al-Madkhali, [may Allāh preserve him], said:
“In these times, injustice has proliferated, and the sanctity of the honour of innocent believers is being transgressed, wrongfully, tyrannically, and with blatant aggression.”
Al-Majmū‘ Kutub wa Rasā’il wa Fatāwa, 1/84 | Shaykh Rabee‘ bin Hādi al-Madkhali, [may Allāh preserve him].
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Translation: Authentic Quotes
