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 [...]
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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 | Leave a Comment »
Contentment
Posted in Quotes, Reminders on August 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Narrated to us Qādim ad-Daylamī Al-’Ābid who said, “I said to al-Fuḍayl bin ‘Iyāḍ, ‘Who is content with Allāh (i.e. with what He has given him)?’ He said, ‘The one who does not like to be on a status other than what he is in.’”
[Ar-Riḍā’ 'Anillāh Biqaḍā’ih by al-Imām Ibn Abīd-Dunyā 1/36]
On the authority of [...]
The Qurân was sent down to be acted upon
Posted in Quotes, Quran, Reminders on August 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Quran.
It is reported from Al-Fudayl (b. ‘Ayyâd) that he said:
The Qurân was sent down to be acted upon but people have taken just reciting it as enough of a deed. He was asked, “How is it acted upon?” He replied, “They should treat as halâl what it makes halâl and treat as harâm what [...]
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 | Leave a Comment »
“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 [...]
Keep your nafs in check
Posted in Quotes, Reminders on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Al Hajjaj Once Said;
“Keep your nafs in check, for they can get up to all sorts of mischief. May Allah grant mercy. May Allah grant mercy to whom-ever puts reins and blinkers on his nafs, directing it with the blinkers towards obedience to Allah, and steering it away from dis-obedience with the reins. Patiently avoiding [...]
Account yourself
Posted in Quotes, Reminders on August 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Al Hasan Al Basri (ra) said:
” You always see the believer reproaching himself and saying things like: Did I want this? Why did I do that? Was this a better thing to do or should I have behaved otherwise?
Umar Al Farooq (ra) Said:
“The Wisest Of Men is he who can account for his own actions.”
Umar [...]
Whoever constantly looks to others dies depressed!
Posted in Arabic, Poetry, Reminders on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
من راغب الناس مـــات هـمّــا *** وفاز باللذة الجـــســـور
Whoever constantly looks to others dies depressed!
It is the bold and daring who triumph with delight
He will suffice you
Posted in Arabic, Heart Soother, Poetry, Reminders on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
إنَّ ربّا كفاكَ ما كان بالأمسِ *** ســيكفـــيـك في غدٍ ما يكونُ
Indeed the Lord who sufficed you of what was of yesterday
Will suffice you of what’s to come in the morrow
