Understanding (Tafaqquh) in Deen is acquired by one who has pursued Knowledge (of Deen) with attention, and who had honoured his Asaatizah (Teachers). The student who displeases his Asaatizah will never gain true Ilm regardless of his efforts. Experience has confirmed this.
Divine love makes waking for Tahajjud easy. The eyes open without an alarm—the heart’s clock awakens its beloved.
تتجافى جنوبهم عن المضاجع يدعون ربهم خوفا وطمعا
“Their sides forsake their beds; they call upon their Lord in fear and hope.”
Without study, the mind becomes stagnant. Understanding weakens and new ideas fade.
Make beneficial reading a daily habit. Read beyond your field to keep the mind alive and curious.
Never abandon learning. If you stopped, begin again.
May Allah grant us beneficial knowledge.
A strange matter: When Salah is neglected, its harm does not remain confined to one person—it affects the home and those around it.
If there is no Salah in a household, how can we expect barakah?
Protect your Salah, and protect the barakah of your home.
There is a need to be prepared for death at all times.
We were not given this life to build beautiful homes.
This worldly life isn't for us to race one another in making wealth and good fortune.
Rather, we have been blessed with this life to worship Allah.
One who learns to prostrate at Allah’s door will never need to bow before the doors of others.
When Allah humiliates someone, none can honor him.
وَ��َن يُهِنِ اللَّهُ فَمَا لَهُ مِن مُّكْرِمٍ
May Allah protect us from His anger.
When faced with a problem did you contact Allah Ta'ala before contacting anyone else?
This is a sign of being connected (to Allah).
—Shiekh Abdulhamid Ishak
Mālik ibn Dīnār رحمه الله stated:
"The more you worry for this worldly life, the more the worry for hereafter leaves your heart, and the more you worry for hereafter, the more the worry for this worldly life leaves your heart."
(Al-Bayḥaqī; Zuhd al-Kabīr 220)
Al-Hafidh ibn Rajab:
"The example of the impermissible things in this world is that of the Diflä tree (a beautiful but poisonous plant), it amazes the one who sees it but kills the one who eats it!"
[Latā if Al-Ma'ārif p. 534]
The Noble Shaykh Muhammad bin Ramzān حفظه الله stated:
"History does not (actually) repeat itself. However, it is the foolish ones who repeat the mistakes of those who came before them."
[ندوة: التاريخ والدين]
Sisters,
EVEN if all men are blind, you're still supposed to cover yourselves! ☺️ It's not about what the Command is; it's about Whom it's from! It is from Allah! May Allah guide you all to that which is best, aameen 🤲
Imām Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله stated:
Sins are like a chain around the necks of the sinners, that do not separate from them, except by seeking forgiveness and repentance [from Allāh].
(At-Tadhkirah fil-Wa’adh Page 96)
Al-Hāfith Ibn Rajab رحمه الله stated:
"No matter how great the sins of the servant are, indeed the pardoning and forgiveness of Allāh are greater than the sins."
[Jām'i Al-'Ulūm wal-Hikam 2/406]
Shaykhul-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله stated:
"The realities of faith don't enter into the heart when there is within it that which pollutes it from arrogance or jealousy."
[Majmū Al-Fatāwā 13/343]
Sufyān bin 'Uyaynah رحمه الله stated:
"A servant will not attain the reality of faith until he places between himself and the Harām a barrier from the Halāl. Also, he will not attain it until he leaves off sins and that which is similar to it."
[Al-War' of Imām Ahmad (59)]
When the treasury of Allah Ta'ala is open then don't only take the small things - one car or one property.
Take the things of Deen, and the greatest thing is Allah's Fazl (Grace, kindness, mercy)
—Sh. Abdulhamid Ishak