This world is temporary. You’re on a journey. You’ve not reached your final destination yet. An eternal abode awaits. The Hereafter. So quit stressing over everything that happens. Nothing lasts. Let the Almighty take over after you’ve done your best.
Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah رحمه الله said:
“Do not abandon dua, and do not let what you know about yourselves (from deficiency) prevent you from it. For verily, Allah answered Iblis, and he was the worst of creation!”
- Shu’ab Al-Iman 2/53
Umm Kulthum bint Abu Bakr used to say:
I prayed to Allāh to bless me with a husband who would pour love on me in abundance and worship Allāh a lot, so Allāh blessed her with Talha ibn Ubaidullāh (one of those who was promised Paradise)
The Salaf reported from her that she said:
"If he saw me, he would rejoice when he heard my voice,he would smile when I smile and if I cried, he would cry.
He would not sleep until he was reassured that I was warm in my bed, and he would not leave a prayer without praying for me in it before himself.
And if I became ill, he would share my pain as though the illness was in his body, and he would not be at ease until he would make me sit next to him, and whenever he ate he would start with the morsel to my mouth and feed me with his hand.
I was his pride and honour in secret and in public."
📖 [Siyar a'lam al-Nubula]
@Umaimakazmi1@SyedRagib4@alishbahaha_ Calling another muslim a munafiq is a trait of a munafiq. How do you know what's in another person's heart that only Allah SWT could know?
Imam Al-Dhahabī رحمه الله said:
“Anyone who doesn’t fear the possibility of him being in the Fire of Jahannam is an arrogant and deluded individual, who (for some reason) feels that he is safe from Allah’s planning.”
[السير ٢٩١/٦]
Ali ibn Abi Talib رضى الله عنه said,
"From the most beloved of speech to Allah is for the servant to say while he is in Sujud: I have wronged myself, so forgive me."
رَبِّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي فَاغْفِرْ لِي
'Rabbi innee zalamtu nafsee faghfir lee'
"My Lord! Verily, I have wronged myself, so forgive me."
Du'a in Surah al-Qasas, 28:16
[Musannaf Ibn Abi Shaybah (29842)
Imam Gazali says, “A person becomes a slave of the words they speak, but a master of the words they leave unspoken.”
Restraint is a form of strength, and the true skill is not in saying everything we think but in knowing what to withhold.
DON'T JOKE WITH THIS DUA: O Allah, if i have wronged anyone in any way, forgive me and place forgiveness in their hearts. Do not let my shortcomings become a burden on others, and cover me with Your mercy. Ameen.
“Forgive me when I prostrate while my mind is distracted. Forgive me when I repent and then return to sin, for I have no other refuge than You, O Allah.”
Someone asked Hassan Al Basri: "what is the secret of your piety?"
He replied, "I understood four things":
1. I understood my rizq cannot be taken by anyone so my heart is content.
2. I understood no one can do my actions (worship) so i started doing them myself.
3. I understood Allah is watching me, so i felt shame to do wrong.
4. I understood death is waiting for me so i started to prepare for my meeting with Allah (s.w)
“I battled with my nafs for twenty years before it became upright.
If you strive for long enough, and repent each time you err, then your nafs will become upright.
But this is something that doesn’t happen over days or months; it requires long years.”
[حلية الأولياء ٧/٥]
Fudayl ibn 'lyad رحمه الله said
"You consider yourself to be something while even an insect obeys Allah more than you do"
[Hilyat al-Awliyah wa-Tabaqat al-Asfiya | 6/253]
How To Identify A Person Who Follows His Desires?
Shaykh Salih Al-Fawzan [حفظه الله] said:
❝If you said to a person who is truthful and made a mistake, you have erred in this evidence, you have erred in the Sunnah, then he will accept this, because his aim and goal is the truth, and his aim is not to make his opinion victorious.
However, if you said to a person who follows desires, you have made a mistake, he becomes angry and very harsh, this is the sign of the people who follow whims and desires, that each one of them wants to make his whims and desires victorious.❞
[📚Sharh As-Sunnah Al-Barbahari, (Page: 56) | 📝Translated By Abbas Abu Yahya Miraath Al-Anbiyya]