Ottoman calendar written in Ottoman Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Armenian, Hebrew, French and Bulgarian languages, demonstrating the plurality of ethnicities in the Ottoman Empire, 1911.
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Kaʿb b. Mālik said:
"Whoever fasts Ramaḍān, whilst telling himself that once Ramaḍān leaves he will disobey his Lord, such a persons fast is rejected."
● [لطائف المعارف ص ٢١٥]
Khalid bin al-Walid رضي الله عنه said:
"Fitnah is that you are in a land in which sins are rampant and when you seek to leave it for a land in which sins are not rampant,
you are unable to find such a place."
-Ibn Abi Shaybah in his ‘Musannaf
When the unlearned man with the “cheque book” controls the learned man on the “mimbar” (pulpit) then we really need to “check” the direction of our community.
Imam Al-Bukhari was distinguished with three qualities
- in addition to the rest of his praseworthy traits:
1- He never spoke much,
2- he never yearned for what people had.
3- He would never occupy himself with other people’s affairs; all his attention was towards knowledge.
A young sperm whale was found dead in Sicily with a stomach full of plastic.
It was a female and was so young that "her teeth haven't come out yet." https://t.co/eX9MKOBn7i
The person that is too lazy to pray is the same person that goes to work/school for eight hours a day.
Not praying is not due to laziness, it is due to a lack of eman in Allah ﷻ and the Last Day.