“Let Me Pray!”
December 3, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Prophet ﷺ said, “When the deceased enters the grave, the sun is made to appear as if it is setting. He sits up, rubs his eyes and says, ‘Let me pray!’”
Ṣaḥīḥ, Ibn Mājah, no. 4272.
“Presenting the scene of sunset in the grave is a kind of trial that differentiates between a true believer and a so-called Muslim.
Continually performing prayers during life is very important, and an obligatory act. If one neglects them here, then it becomes very difficult to be successful in the examination in the grave.
Rubbing his eyes means he will think that he has slept for a long time and is late for the ʿAsr prayer, so he hastens to perform the prayer as soon as possible to avoid more delay.”
On Backbiting
December 1, 2023 § Leave a comment
Al-ʿAbbās ibn al-Walīd said, “My father said, ‘I heard al-ʾAwzāʿī saying, ‘It has reached me that on the Day of Resurrection it will be said to a servant, ‘Stand up and take your due right from so and so.’ So he will reply saying, ‘[But] I’m not owed any rights from him.’ So it will be said, ‘But you are. He mentioned you on such and such a day saying this and this.’’’”
Shuʿab al-Īmān, p. 98.
Aḥmad ibn Hanbal’s Mercy
November 30, 2023 § Leave a comment
Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥussain ibn ʿAbdullah al-Khiraqī said, “I spent the night along with Aḥmad ibn Hanbal. I never saw him sleep, he just cried until the morning. So I said, ‘Abū ʿAbdullah, you cried a lot this night, what happened?’ He said, ‘I remembered how al-Muʿtaṣim beat me and I came across this āyah in the dars, ‘And the retribution for an evil act is an evil one like it, but whoever pardons and makes reconciliation—his reward is [due] from Allāh,’ [42:40] so I prostrated and in the sajdah I forgave him for beating me.’”
Manāqib al-Imām Aḥmad, p. 467.
The Story of the Passing of ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī The Oud Expert
November 26, 2023 § Leave a comment
“ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī the owner of the famous chain of Oud perfume stores had a daughter who was to get married. ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad saw his father in a dream where he told him, ‘You will visit us after five.’
So he woke up and couldn’t tell if what he meant was five days, weeks, months or years, all the while feeling as though his time was coming to an end. So he told his family to speed up his daughter’s wedding.
Then when the Imām of his mosque was absent for one of the prayers ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad led them instead. In the first rakʿah after Fātiḥah he read Sūrah al-Lail and cried heavily when he read the verse, ‘And their wealth will be of no benefit to them when they tumble ˹into Hell˺.’ [92:11]
Then in the second rakʿah he read Sūrah aḍ-Ḍuḥā and when he read, ‘And proclaim the blessings of your Lord,’ [93:11] he passed away [in Ṣalāh].
And that was five months after he had seen that dream.
The author was told this by ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī’s son, Anas ibn ʿAbduṣ-Ṣamad al-Qurashī.”
Multaqaṭāt al-ʿUwayyid, vol. 3, p. 184.
Al-Fawzaan Asked About the Jinn and Throwing Out Hot Water without Mentioning Allaah’s Name
November 25, 2023 § Leave a comment
They Used to Hate Their Prophets
November 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Jews used to hate their Prophets, so how will their hatred for the believers be?”
Daqāʾiqut-Tafsīr, vol. 2, p. 66.
Manners Related to the Mosque
November 16, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “So whoever is one of the first people to come to the mosque but then doesn’t stand in the front row has opposed the Sharīʿah.”
Majmūʿul-Fatāwā, vol. 22, p. 262.
Fāṭimah Daughter of Imām Mālik · Compare with Sisters on Display all over YouTube Giving ‘Daʿwah’
November 14, 2023 § Leave a comment
Az-Zubairī said, “[Imām] Mālik used to have a daughter who had memorized his knowledge, ‘his knowledge’ referring to the Muwaṭaʾ. She would stand behind the door and so when the person reading it [to Imām Mālik] would make a mistake she would knock the door and Mālik would take note and correct him.”
Tartīb al-Madārik, 1/48, and Ad-Dībāj al-Madhhab, p. 18.
On Showing Joy at the Calamities that Befall a Muslim
November 13, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, “And among the major sins: showing joy and happiness at the harm that comes to Muslims and gloating at their misfortune.”
Madārijus-Sālikīn, vol. 1, p. 133.
“Fix What’s Left …”
November 9, 2023 § Leave a comment
Aḥmad ibn ʿĀsim said, “Fix what’s left, you’ll be forgiven what has passed.”
Siyar Aʿlām an-Nubalā, vol. 10, p. 488.
“And ˹Remember˺ when We Took a Covenant from You and Raised the Mountain Above you ˹Saying˺, ‘Hold Firmly to that ˹Scripture˺ …” [2:63]
November 5, 2023 § Leave a comment
“It is reported that they refused to accept the rulings in the Tawrah due to how tough and weighty they were. So Allaah raised Mt. Ṭūr above their heads covering their encampment, which was a farsakh by a farsakh [a farsakh or ‘parasang’ is about 5.5 km] and they were told, ‘Either you accept what is in it or it will fall on you.’ So when they looked at the mountain each one of them fell into prostration on his left eyebrow while looking up at the mountain with his right eye scared that it would fall on them.”
Tafsīr ar-Rāzī.
And then, being cursed, they turned away again.
The Rāfiḍah’s Hate and Fury Against the Sunnis
November 5, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allaah have mercy on him, said about the Rāfiḍah Shīʿah, “They have such hate and fury in their hearts against the senior Muslims and the laymen, the righteous ones and the non-righteous as is not found in anyone else’s heart.”
Majmūʿul-Fatāwā, vol. 28, p. 488.
A Guest Every Day
November 4, 2023 § Leave a comment
“Al-Ḥasan used to say, ‘Son of Adam, the day is your guest, and a guest either leaves praising or criticising you. The same goes for your night.’”
Mowsūʿah Ibn Abid-Dunyā, vol. 5, p. 181.
Don’t Expect Anything from the Rāfiḍah
November 4, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allaah have mercy on him, said about the Rāfiḍah, “Their allegiance to the Jews, Christians and the polytheists [mushriks] and their helping in the killing of Muslims is something well-known to the scholars and the layman. Such that it has been said that never did a Jew and a Muslim fight, or a Christian and a Muslim, or a mushrik and a Muslim except that the Rāfiḍī was with the Jew, the Christian and the mushrik.”
Minhāj as-Sunnah, 3/452.
On Drinking from Kawthar
November 2, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh Ṣāliḥ as-Sindī said, “The closer you are to the Sunnah the closer you are to drinking from his fountain [Kawthar] ﷺ.”
Sharḥ al-ʿAqīdah aṭ-Ṭaḥāwiyyah.
He is Closely Counting Every Single Thing They Do
November 1, 2023 § 2 Comments
Allaah said, “So do not be in haste against them ˹O Prophet˺, for indeed We are ˹closely˺ counting down their days.” [Maryam:84]
Aṭ-Ṭabarī said, “He عزّ ذكره is saying, ‘We only delay their destruction so that they can increase in sin. We are counting every single one of their deeds and adding them up—even the [very] breaths they take so that We can repay them for it all. And We have not left speeding up their destruction for any good that We have intended for them.’”
“Is it Him?” · Cursed of Old
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim mentions, “Ibn Isḥāq mentioned from ʿAbdullah ibn Abī Bakr who said, ‘Someone told me from [the Mother of the Believers, the Prophet’s ﷺ wife] Ṣafiyyah bint Ḥuyay that she said, ‘I was the most beloved of my father’s children to him and likewise to my uncle Abū Yāsir [both of whom were Jews]. When Allaah’s Messenger ﷺ came to Medinah they both went to him in the morning and later returned in the evening.
So I heard my uncle say to my father: ‘Is it him?’
He replied: ‘Yes, wallāhī.’
He said: ‘Do you recognise him and affirm it?’
He said: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘So what do you feel about him?’
He said: ‘Enmity for him, wallāhī, as long as I live.’’
[Then Ibn al-Qayyim said] so this Nation under Allaah’s Wrath [الأمة الغضبية] is well-known of times old for its enmity to the Prophets.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 47.
The Rāfiḍah and Jerusalem
October 31, 2023 § Leave a comment
The Shaikh of Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah said, “The Rāfiḍah were one of the greatest reasons the Christians in the past were able to capture Bait al-Maqdis, until the Muslims were able to take it back from them.”
Minhāj as-Sunnah an-Nabawiyyah, 7/414.
The Nation Under Allaah’s Wrath
October 28, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, “The nation under Allaah’s Wrath, the Yahūd: liars, slanderers, betrayers, deceivers, tricksters, murderers of Prophets, consumers of the forbidden, of usury and bribes, having the most malicious conscience of all nations, the most defective of them in character, the furthest removed from mercy, the closest to punishment, their very habit is hatred and malice, their custom enmity and hostility, a house of magic, lies and deceit, they hold no sanctity for anyone who opposes their disbelief and denials even if a Prophet, they honour not the bonds of kinship or treaties with the believers, nor [even] does anyone who agrees with them get any rights or pity, there is no justice or fairness for anyone who goes along with them, no serenity or peace for anyone who mingles with them, no love of good towards someone who might utilise/employ them, nay—their most intellectual is the most vile, their most truthful the most fraudulent, the one having a sound breast among them—and far be it that such a person be found from or among them—is not a Jew in reality, the most distressed among creation, the darkest houses and the most rotten courtyards, the wildest in character, their greeting is a curse, meeting them is misfortune, their inner-garment is anger, and their outer hatred.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 15.
Selfie Lovers · Video Clip Creators with Music · Makeup Wearers for the World to See · Shameless Muslims with Their Wives on Display · How Many Men Do You Think Have Seen Your Wife? How Many More Will See Her After You Die? Millions? How Many Views? Likes Even? Someone ‘Likes’ Seeing Your Wife in a Video and You’re OK with That? You Can’t Reach Out from Your Grave to Take a Post or Video Down
October 25, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ḥabīb al-Fārisī said, “It is pure bliss for a man who, upon dying, has his sins die with him too.”
Ḥilyatul-Awliyā, vol. 6, p. 152.
What Do You Expect when They Wanted to Stone Some of the Greatest of all Prophets to Death?
October 24, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said about the Jews, “Allaah split the sea in two for them and saved them from their enemy yet their feet hadn’t even dried when they said to Mūsā, “Make for us a god like their gods.” He replied, “Indeed, you are a really ignorant people!” [Al-Aʿrāf:138] … and even though they had witnessed signs and wonders they wanted to stone Mūsā and his brother Hārūn to death on numerous occasions even though revelation was still being revealed among them!”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 303.
What Can You Expect from the Murderers of Prophets?
October 23, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said about the Jews, “Murderers of Prophets. They murdered Zakariyā and his son Yaḥyā and many other Prophets—to such an extent that they killed seventy in one day and then set up a market at the end of the day as though they had done nothing.”
Hidāyatul-Ḥayārā, p. 48.
Only Allaah Knows
October 22, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn al-Qayyim said, ‘Part of Allaah’s Mercy to His servant is that He tests him with a trial which he can’t disclose to others and nor can he find anyone who can understand it fully/properly—so that his heart doesn’t become attached to anyone else instead of Allaah who he goes and complains to.’
Al-Wābil aṣ-Ṣayyib, p. 35.
ُThe Future is for Islaam · “And ˹Remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord Declared that He Would Send Against them Others who Would Make them Suffer Terribly Until the Day of Judgment.”
October 20, 2023 § Leave a comment
“And ˹remember, O Prophet,˺ when your Lord declared that He would send against them others who would make them suffer terribly until the Day of Judgment. Indeed, your Lord is swift in punishment, but He is certainly All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.” [Al-Aʿrāf:167]
Ibn ʿAbbās said, “He would send against them others who would make them suffer terribly …”—Muḥammad ﷺ and his Ummah all the way up until the Day of Judgement.”
Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī, vol. 9, p. 102.
“Cursed were those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel by the tongue of David and of Jesus, the son of Mary. That was because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed.” [Maaʾidah:78]
October 16, 2023 § Leave a comment
Ibn ʿAbbās said, “They were cursed with every tongue. Cursed in the time of Moses (alaihis-salām) in the Tawrāh. Cursed in the time of David (alaihis-salām) in the Zabūr. Cursed in the time of Jesus (alaihis-salām) in the Injīl. And cursed in the time of Muhammad ﷺ in the Qurʾān.”
Mujāhid said, “They were cursed by the tongue of David and so become apes. And they were cursed by the tongue of Jesus and turned into pigs.”
Tafsīr aṭ-Ṭabarī.
They Use White Phosphorus on the Muslims in this Life, in the Next—Skin so Thick it will Take a Journey of Three Nights to Cross it, Allaah will Make it Like that so that they can, “… taste the Punishment.” [Nisaa:56]
October 15, 2023 § 2 Comments
قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم: ضِرْسُ الْكَافِرِ أَوْ نَابُ الْكَافِرِ مِثْلُ أُحُدٍ وَغِلَظُ جِلْدِهِ مَسِيرَةُ ثَلاَثٍ.
The Prophet ﷺ said, “The molar tooth of an unbeliever or the canine teeth of an unbeliever will be like [Mt.] Uhud—and the thickness of his skin will be the distance of three nights travel.”
Muslim, no. 7185
Sins Like Mountains
October 13, 2023 § 2 Comments
يَجِيءُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ نَاسٌ مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ بِذُنُوبٍ أَمْثَالِ الْجِبَالِ فَيَغْفِرُهَا اللَّهُ لَهُمْ
وَيَضَعُهَا عَلَى الْيَهُودِ وَالنَّصَارَى
The Prophet ﷺ said, “On the Day of Resurrection some Muslims will come with sins like mountains, but Allaah will forgive them—and place the sins on the Jews and the Christians.”
Muslim, no. 7014
He ﷿ will Give You a Jew or a Christian to Save You from Hell
October 12, 2023 § Leave a comment
إِذَا كَانَ يَوْمُ الْقِيَامَةِ دَفَعَ اللَّهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ إِلَى كُلِّ مُسْلِمٍ يَهُودِيًّا أَوْ نَصْرَانِيًّا فَيَقُولُ هَذَا فَكَاكُكَ مِنَ النَّارِ
The Prophet ﷺ said, “When the Day of Resurrection comes, Allaah ﷿ will give every Muslim [either] a Jew or a Christian and then say—‘This is your ransom from the Fire.’”
Muslim, no. 7011
Sending Salaah on the Prophet ﷺ
October 6, 2023 § Leave a comment
Shaikh ʿUthaimīn, “If someone gave you directions to a place you wanted to get to you would see that as a favour he did for you—so what about the Prophet ﷺ who showed you the path to Paradise? It’s his right that you send salaah on him ﷺ.”
Fatāwā Nūr ʿalad-Darb, 12/210.
Gifts of Knowledge 