@metrotrains deceving passengers, wrong information on app, 8:59 Upfield to Flinders got cancelled and then 09:09 was running 10 mins late but metro app shows all green. What a disgrace.
The final hour of Friday is a unique blessing, especially for those who miss the opportunity to make supplications during the last portion of the night.
During this time, duʿās are swiftly accepted.
Seize the last hour of Jumuʿah to turn the impossible into the possible.
Use this precious moment to send abundant salutations upon the Prophet (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam), ask for your needs, and witness the miraculous results.
Embrace this opportunity with full conviction—make the most of this blessed time, and experience its profound, transformative effects firsthand.
In the heart there is a void and a need that nothing can fulfill except remembrance of Allah ﷻ, love for Him, and turning to Him.
Even if one were given the world and all it contains, it would never fill that void.
It is only the Dhikr of Allah ﷻ that can attract this peace.
I was deeply disturbed to see a tweet yesterday suggesting people are “so concerned over what’s haraam or what’s not”
Let us not forget the explicit instructions of Sayyiduna Rasulullah ﷺ
Allah guide and forgive us
Who is Allah?
Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) described the greatness of Allah in a beautiful manner:
"He is controlling the affairs of all the kingdoms. He commands and prohibits, creates and gives provision, and gives death and gives life. He raises and lowers people’s status, alternates night and day, gives days (good and not so good) to men by turns, and causes nations to rise and fall, so that one nation vanishes and another emerges. His command and decree are carried out throughout the heavens and on earth, above it and below it, in the oceans and in the air. He has knowledge of all things and knows the number of all things.
He hears all voices, and does not mistake one for another; He hears them all, in all the different languages and with all their varied requests and pleas. No voice distracts Him from hearing another, He does not confuse their requests, and He never tires of hearing the pleas of those in need. He sees all that is visible, even the walk of a black ant across a solid rock in the darkest night.
The unseen is visible to Him, and secrets are known to Him Whosoever is in the heavens and on earth begs of Him (its needs from Him). Every day He has a matter to bring forth (such as giving honour to some, disgrace to some, life to some, death to some, etc.)! [The Quran 55:29 interpretation of the meaning].
He forgives sins, eases worries, relieves distress, helps the defeated person back on his feet, makes the poor rich, guides the one who is astray and confused, fulfils the needs of the desperate, feeds the hungry, clothes the naked, conceals faults, and calms fears. He raises the status of some and lowers the status of others.
Even if all the inhabitants of heaven and earth, the first and the last of them, mankind and jinn alike, were to be as pious as the most pious among them, this would not increase His sovereignty in the slightest; if they all, the first and the last of them, mankind and jinn alike, were to be as rebellious as the most rebellious among them, this would not decrease His sovereignty in the slightest. If everything in heaven and on earth, the first and the last of them, mankind and jinn, living and dead, animate and inanimate, were to stand in one place and ask of Him, and He were to give them everything that they asked for, this would not decrease what He has by even an atom’s weight.
He is the First, before Whom there is nothing, and the Last, after Whom there is nothing.
He is the Most deserving of being remembered, the Most deserving of being worshipped, the Most deserving of being thanked. He is the Most Compassionate of kings, the Most Generous of those who are asked. He is the King Who has no partner or associate, the One who has no rival, the Self-Sufficient Master, Who has no son, the Most High, and there is none like unto Him.
Everything will perish save His face [Quran 28:88 interpretation of the meaning], and everything will vanish except His sovereignty. He will not be obeyed except by His permission, and He will not be disobeyed except with His knowledge.
He is obeyed, so He shows His appreciation, and He is disobeyed, so he forgives.
Every punishment on His part is justice, and every blessing from Him is a favour. He is the closest of witnesses and the nearest of protectors. He seizes people by their forelocks, records their deeds and decrees the appointed time for all things.
Hearts conceal nothing from Him, for secrets are known to Him.
His gift is a word and His punishment is a word: Verily, His Command, when He intends a thing, is only that He says to it, Be! and it is. [Quran, 36:82 interpretation of the meaning].
This is Allah, who revealed the Glorious Quran for the guidance of mankind.
[Adapted from al-Waabil al-Sayib, p. 125]
تقبل الله منا ومنكم
Wish you a joyous Eid. May you always be happy
May Allāh accept all of your 'Ibādāt.
May Allāh let us all start on an absolutely clean slate.
May Allāh protect us from going back into sin, and may He now protect us from the devils.
(Countdown to Ramadhān: 11 months)
As the month of Ramaḍān draws to an end, here are some other practices that we also need to repent for:
- Wasting time
- Feasting/parting/eating lavishly
- Not valuing this blessed month in general, and the noble times of Tahajjud, Ifṭār and the odd nights in particular
time to lose followers...
Many of us have 11 months to socialise but then we are too busy to keep ties.
Every second of Ramadaan is a valuable gift by which we can focus on Allah, but suddenly only in Ramadaan we have time to socialise & iftaar parties
https://t.co/A9UkPujqTa
Before the invasion of Iraq, 60 countries, 10 million people protested against invading my country.
They still invaded.
If you think protests achieve anything you need to re-evaluate yourself.
The only outcome of these protests is people missing Salah, free mixing, laws passed against Muslims increasing the oppression they face, chaos, destruction and violence occurring during these Protests making Islam look evil and barbaric in the eyes of the kuffar and ironically taking attention away from the actual issue being protested and the attention directed at you and how violent and evil you and your protests are.
This is why the Scholars prohibited protesting,
Not only is it rebelling against the ruler (in Muslim countries), but it's also a Bid'ah introduced into Islam from communism and co., it is also imitating the Kuffar as well as being a means of evil being and disobedience to Allah being spread such as through free mixing, missing Salah, oppressing innocent bystanders etc. Which occurs in literally every protest .
Our strongest weapon against our enemies is to seek knowledge, perform righteous actions, abondon sins and evil and make Dua so that after this hard work Allah عز وجل will accept our dua through these righteous actions that we perform.
But people are lazy, chanting for 3 hrs and thinking you saved gaza is easier than spending years seeking knowledge, and making real changes to yourself, your family and those around you.
That's hard work,
And that's what makes a man, and the men today are few while the boys are many,
نسأل الله السلامة والعافية
See below the scholars speech on protesting:
https://t.co/HNElxyHJ9L