@DaMaestro7@stats_feed Gulf countries it's mostly due to diet, being active (everyone drives for example) and excess consumption of food due to high disposable incomes.
@DaMaestro7@stats_feed Probably Mostly to diet (consumption of food). Our cuisine is not healthy but unfortunately people don't take this into consideration.
The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Take advantage of five before five:
• your youth before your old age,
• your health before your sickness,
• your wealth before your poverty,
• your free time before your busyness,
• and your life before your death.”
Source :
- Al-Ḥākim in al-Mustadrak
- Reported also by al-Bayhaqī
Graded ṣaḥīḥ by al-Ḥākim, and ḥasan by other scholars .
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Golden Advice from Shaykh Sulaymān al-Ruḥaylī
A sincere piece of advice from one who cares:
Make it a priority to supplicate with a great Duʿāʾ from the supplications of the Salaf:
"O Allāh, grant me a righteous companion."
And make sure to act upon the statement of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him):
"Do not keep company except with a believer, and let none eat your food except one who is righteous."
Meaning: let your companionship be with people of Tawḥīd and Taqwā.
And know—may Allāh have mercy on you—that a companion is not only a person. A companion can also be a book, or a website, or a platform. So do not keep company except with a believing, God-fearing companion. Do not read from any book or website except that which strengthens your Tawḥīd and increases your Īmān. Do not expose your religion to doubts. Do not approach the people of desires and innovations—nor their books, nor their websites—nor listen to them.
Beware of Shayṭān's deceptions, such as saying: "I’m only listening to be sure," or "just to be fair," and other similar excuses.
I offer this advice after observing instability in the creed, methodology, and principles of loyalty and disavowal among many of our brothers and sisters, due to carelessness in this matter.
The Wisdom Behind Fasting
Sh. Ibn al-‘Uthaymeen رحمه اللّه said:
“From the wisdom of fasting is that it is a form of training for controlling the soul and the power to stop yourself for indeed man is inclined towards evil except for the one to whom mercy is shown by Allāh, it also overwhelms a person and makes them humble, it gives them humility towards the Creator and kindness towards the creation.
From the wisdom of fasting is that the blood becomes less flowing, it becomes more thick and more constricted when a person is hungry and thirsty, this causes the flowing of Shayṭān to be less as well for indeed Shayṭān flows through the bloodstream of the son of Ādam as has been authentically narrated from the Prophet ﷺ in Bukhārī and Muslim so fasting decreases the whispers of Shayṭān and it decreases the episodes of lust and anger hence the reason fasting is called a 'shield’ against desires."
[مجالس شهر رمضان]
The Prophet ﷺ said:
"There is a gate in Jannāh called ar-Rayyān and only those who observed fast shall enter through."
[صحيح البخاري ١٨٩٦]
Al Bassaam رحمه الله said:
"Fasting increases mercy and people aware of the pain suffered by those less fortunate."
[تيسير اللام ٣١٣/١]
The Prophet ﷺ said:
"Every servant of Allah who observes fast for a day in the way of Allah, Allah would remove, because of this day, his face farther from the Fire (of Hell) to the extent of seventy years' distance.
[صحيح مسلم ١١٥٣]
@PayJizyah@indcsive 'Uqbah bin 'Amir (May Allah be pleased with him) said: I asked the Messenger of Allah ﷺ, "How can salvation be achieved?" He replied, "Control your tongue, keep to your house, and weep over your sins". At-Tirmidhi.
@bencsin Exactly, my lifestyle changed when in HK or sz, and no phone gonna last you more than a day unless you living in a suberb, driving or work in a office or something.
Dutifulness to Parents
By Sheikh Dr Abdullah Awad Al Juhany
Indeed, righteousness towards parents is obedience to the Most Merciful, a source of goodness and blessing for a person, a cause for prayers to be answered, for provision to be increased, and for life to be prolonged. The Prophet ﷺ said:
“Whoever would like his provision to be expanded and his lifespan to be extended, let him maintain the ties of kinship.”
(Narrated by al-Bukhari and Muslim).
Being dutiful to parents is among the noblest of qualities, and a sign of virtue and perfection. Whoever is close to Allah by honoring his parents will be close to Paradise.
A person must realize that no matter how much he honors his parents, he will never fully repay them.
The noble companion, Abdullah ibn Umar (may Allah be pleased with them both), said:
“I carried my mother on my back from Khurasan until I performed all of the rites (of Hajj) with her. Have I repaid her?”
He replied: “No, not even for a single contraction of childbirth.”
The Muslim must beware of being undutiful to parents. The Prophet ﷺ said:
“May he be humiliated, may he be humiliated, may he be humiliated—the one whose parents, one or both of them, reach old age during his lifetime and he does not enter Paradise (by serving them).”
(Narrated by Muslim).
One of the powerful and eye-opening pieces of advice from Al-‘Allāmah Ṣāliḥ Āl al-Shaykh was directed to a group of French brothers who told him, "We have already studied Kitāb al-Tawḥīd." His response was striking:
> "Study it again. Had you truly understood it, you would have made Hijrah!”
This wasn’t a casual remark—it was a profound reminder. If your heart genuinely hated kufr, as it must in true Tawḥīd, it would drive you to leave lands of disbelief and seek refuge in the lands of Islām. That is the natural outcome of a heart filled with al-walā’ wal-barā’—loyalty and disavowal for the sake of Allāh.
This is why Imām Muḥammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhāb, رحمه الله, emphasized teaching children the ‘aqīdah of al-walā’ wal-barā’ before even teaching them Ṣalāh—because without this foundation, outward acts of worship are hollow.
So we issue this heartfelt and urgent reminder to Muslims around the world:
🛑 Don’t just read Kitāb al-Tawḥīd. Don’t just memorize it. LIVE it.
📚 Study it again—and again—with depth, sincerity, and the intention to apply it fully in your life.
Because if you truly understood Tawḥīd, it would shake your heart, change your priorities, and alter the course of your life—starting with where you live, who you associate with, and what you stand for.
May Allāh guide us all to understand and live by the reality of La ilāha illa Allāh—not just in speech, but in every breath we take. Ameen.