Our Rights

 Our Rights

Ibn Al-Qayyim [رحمه الله] said:

‎«إذا تأملت حال أكثر الناس وجدتهم ينظرون في حقهم على الله وﻻ ينظرون في حق الله عليهم .»

❝When you reflect upon the condition of the majority of the people you find that they look for their right upon Allaah but they do not look for Allaah's right upon them.❞

[Ighathaa Al-Lahafaan, (1/98)]

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What is Taqwa?

 What is Taqwa?

Shaykh ‘Abdul-‘Aziz ibn Baaz (رحمه الله تعالى رحمة واسعة( said:

“…Taqwa is to believe in Allah (سبحانه وتعالى( and His Messenger (صلى الله عليه وسلم( sincerely, and to believe in other messengers and what they told about what happened in the past and what could happen in the future combined with a righteous good deed which is the most necessary part of faith and the clearest sign of it…”

[Majmoo’ al-Fataawa Ibn Baaz, Vol.: 3; pg. 285]

The Reality of Dhikr and Fear of Allah

The Reality of Dhikr and Fear of Allah

It is reported that Saʿīd b. Jubayr – Allāh have mercy on him – said:


Verily, fear (al-khashyah) is that you fear Allāh such that your fear comes between you and your disobedience (of Allāh). That is khashyah. And dhikr (remembrance) is obedience to Allāh: whoever obeys Allāh has remembered Him; and whoever does not obey Him is not a rememberer of Him, even if he says a lot of tasbīḥ and recites a lot of Qurān.

Al-Dhahabī, Siyar ʾAʿlām Al-Nubalāʾ 4:326.

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Source: https://www.sayingsofthesalaf.net/reality-dhikr-fear-allah/

Allah Looks to Your Hearts – Shaykh Uthaymeen

Allah Looks to Your Hearts 

Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen

From Abū Hurayrah ‘Abdur-Rahmān ibn Sakhr, may Allah be pleased with him, who said: The Messenger of Allah, may Allah raise his rank and grant him peace, said:

«Indeed, Allah looks not to your bodies, nor to your faces, rather He looks to your hearts [and deeds].» [1]



Shaykh al-`Uthaymīn comments [2]:

Allah, the Perfect and Most High, does not look to the slaves and their bodies, and whether or not they are large or small in stature, nor whether they stand in good health or illness. He does not look to their faces, and whether or not they are beautiful or hideous. All of these affairs are of [absolutely] no significance to Allah.

Similarly, He does not look towards their lineage nor ancestry, and whether they are of nobility or ignobility, nor does He look towards their wealth. He does not look towards any of these affairs at all.

There lies no connection between Allah and His creation except through at-taqwā (righteousness). Whomever possesses more taqwā of Allah, is nearer to Him, and thus most honorable with Him, so do not take pride in your wealth, nor in your beauty, nor in your body, nor in your children, nor in your palaces, nor in your cars, nor in any worldly matter.

Indeed, if Allah granted you success in attaining at-taqwā, it is from His Grace upon you, so praise Allah. 


[1] (Related by Muslim, no. 2564.)
[2] Source: Shaykh Saalih al-`Uthaymīn, Sharh Riyād as-Sālihīn, 1/61 [Dār al-Watan].


Translated by Umm Sufyaan Faatimah

Love, Fear and Hope.

Love, Fear and Hope.

Some of the salaf have said:

“Whoever worships Allaah with love alone is a zindeeq; whoever worships Him with hope alone is a Murji’; whoever worships Him with fear alone is a Hurooree and whoever worships Him with love, fear and hope is a Muwahhid”


Takhweef min an-Naar by al Hafidh ibn Rajab al Hanbali Rahimahullaah (p.g. 15)


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By Allah, my sins are less important to me...

Abdul Rahman Ibn Mahdi related: "Sufyan died at my place. When he was on his deathbed and the agonies of death became severe, he started to cry. One man said to him: 'O Abu 'Abdullah, is this because you have, seemingly, committed too many sins?!' Sufyan then picked up something from the floor and said:' By Allah, my sins are less important to me than what I have picked from the floor. But I fear that Allah might take away my Iman from the right before I die."

-Hilyah al'Awliya (7/12)-