Fleeing unto Allah This hijrah requires an origin and a goal. A person migrates with his heart: · From loving other than Allah > loving Him; · From fearing and hoping and relying on other than Him > fearing and hoping and relying on Him; · From calling upon, asking, surrendering to, and humbling oneself [...]
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Fleeing unto Allah
Posted in Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quran, Tafsir, tagged fa firroo ila Allah, flee to Allah on April 8, 2010 | 6 Comments »
5 Pillars of gratitude
Posted in Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quotes, tagged gratitude, shukr on April 5, 2010 | 1 Comment »
“Gratitude is built upon five pillars: Submissiveness to Allah from the one expressing gratitude; loving Him for it; acknowledging His favour; praising Him for it; and not utilizing it in a way that displeases Him” ~ Ibn al-Qayyim
No punishment greater
Posted in Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quotes on April 3, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“The slave is not afflicted with a punishment greater than the hardening of the heart and being distant from Allah. For the Fire was created to melt the hardened heart. The most distant heart from Allah is the heart which is hardened. If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.” ~ Ibn Al-Qayyim
He collects pearls and then rises again
Posted in Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quotes on March 16, 2010 | 4 Comments »
“Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea, he collects pearls and then rises again.” ~ Ibn al-Qayyim
Nothing is impossible there, and love is not lost
Posted in Heart Soother, Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quotes on February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments »
“Get yourself out of this limited world of diseases to the wide world of the hereafter, which has what the eyes have never seen. Nothing is impossible there, and love is not lost. O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose [...]
The divine decree related to the believer is always a bounty
Posted in Heart Soother, Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quotes, Reminders on September 25, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The divine decree related to the believer is always a bounty, even if it is in the form of withholding (something that is desired), and it is a blessing, even if it appears to be a trial, and an affliction that has befallen him is in reality a cure, even though it appears to be [...]
Between their two prayers lies a gulf as [vast] as that separating Heaven from earth
Posted in Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Quotes, Reminders on August 4, 2009 | 3 Comments »
“Someone who turns away in prayer, either with his eyes or his heart, is like a man whom the king summons and seats before him: just when the king starts to call out his name and addresses him, the man turns from him right and left, and his heart turns away. And since his heart [...]
Deeds without sincerity
Posted in Ibn Qayyim al Jawziyyah, Sincerity on July 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Deeds without sincerity are like a traveler who carries in his water-jug dirt. The carrying of it burdens him and it brings no benefit. [Ibn al Qayyim]
