if you're in Ilorin and free, kindly join the Sickle Cell Walk organized by Pearls Sickle Cell Initiative tomorrow, June the 20th.
Walk starts at Peace Hotel. 9am.
Pardon me, but this is one of the wisdoms behind why Islam is so strict regarding walā and attachment. People often underestimate what love, reverence, admiration, and loyalty can make a human being do.
The remarkable thing about the team goes merely beyond the tactics, because obviously, sitting beneath those tactics is so much affection, trust, reverence, and an almost unquestioning willingness to sacrifice for a person they believe in. Once the heart settles upon someone with sufficient admiration, actions that once seemed burdensome begin to feel natural.
This is also why īmān precedes and sustains ibādah. Islam does not begin by demanding worship from you before introducing you to The One being worshipped. It repeatedly calls you to know Allah: His Names, His Attributes, His Power, His Mercy, His Wisdom, His Knowledge of every affair concerning you.
When a servant truly knows Allah (or even anyone they love so much enough), ‘worshipping’ them ceases to feel like a collection of movements and restrictions. And this is because reverence gives birth to love, and love gives birth to willingness, and willingness gives birth to obedience. The limbs merely follow where the heart has already gone. Tawheed, then, is not simply a theological doctrine—that's too limited. It is the foundation upon which every act of worship stands. The stronger one's knowledge of Allah is, the stronger one's attachment to Him is; and the stronger one's attachment to Him is, the easier obedience becomes is.
Perhaps this is why the soul continues to wander through sins, distractions, achievements, pleasures, and every other substitute it can find, yet still senses an absence within itself. There is a space in the heart that was profoundly fashioned for the remembrance of Allah. Nothing occupies it quite like dhikr, and nothing settles it quite like nearness to Him.
May Allah grant us closeness to Him.
alhamdulillāh, we have officially entered the best days of the year. i wrote about the virtues of dhul hijjah and some of the recommended acts of worship. here are some very important ones:
- hold on to the obligatory acts of worship, particularly your ṣalāh at the right times.
- dhul hijjah is a sacred month as well, the weight of sins are heavy. abstain!
- performing hajj is the greatest act of worship in these days, for those who are able.
- fasting is highly recommended especially on the day of Arafah.
- increase in all forms of righteous deeds.
- give sadaqah and engage in the remembrance of Allāh.
may Allāh accept it from us.
inshā Allāh we are fasting from tomorrow till the day of ‘Arafah.
if you're able, please don't miss out. and encourage your folks to do the same.
taqabbalaLlāhu minnā.
URGENT APPEAL: HELP SAVE A FUTURE DOCTOR
Mustapha Bashir Ayodeji, a brilliant 300L MBBS (Medical) student at the University of Ilorin (Unilorin), was halfway to his dream of saving lives when tragedy struck. He has been diagnosed with CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE.
🚨🔥*A FUTURE DOCTOR IN NEED OF HELP*
Mustapha Bashir Ayodeji, a 300L MBBS student at Unilorin, was studying to save lives. Now, he’s fighting for his own.
Bashir has been diagnosed with Chronic Kidney Failure. His dreams are on hold as he faces grueling weekly dialysis.
• Regarding the 5-4 game, people say that this is what football is about, other say where is the defense?
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Guardiola: "Yea but that's football! That's nice, huh? We are all different. For example I am more handsome than you."
Being a doctor in Nigeria is not a career.
It's a calling that the country is slowly destroying with neglect.
I still showed up today. So did thousands of others.
That's not dedication. That's love. Complicated, exhausted love.
Allah has given you most of the things you prayed for, but your focus seems to shift to the few things you haven't received yet. Don't forget that today is the tomorrow you were so worried about yesterday. Nothing invites more good than thankfulness.
@augsby As a medical student, I often go back to my first time with a cadaver, my first time witnessing a patient dying and nothing prepared me for these experiences. But what is even more surprising is how medicine slowly desensitizes us from these feelings.
This thing, medicine. 🥀