By Muhammad Alshareef In one of the battles that the Muslims waged against the Romans, the Muslims, under the commandment of Maslamah Rahimahullah, surrounded a city that had a tall and well-fortified wall. The siege went on for months. Then one night, one of the Muslim soldiers came to General Maslamah and told him of […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
By Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali The first type of craving for wealth is that a person has extreme love for wealth and also relentlessly exerts efforts to attain it – via means which are lawful – being excessive in that, striving hard and making painstaking efforts and toiling in order to attain it. It has been […]
Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim Allah never orders anything except that Satan takes two contradictory stances towards it: either shortcoming and negligence or over-zealousness and exaggeration. It does not matter [to him] by which of these two mistakes he becomes victorious over the slave. He comes to the heart of the slave and examines it. If he […]
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal – rahimahullah – said: You should know – may Allah have mercy upon you – that when the slave [of Allah] leaves his house to go to the mosque, that he is going to face Allah, the Irresistible, the One, the Omnipotent, the Exalted in Might, the Oft-forgiving, in the knowledge […]
By Ibn Qayyim al-jawziyyah The people will enter hell-fire through three doors: 1. The door of doubt, from having doubts in the Deen (religion) of Allah. 2. The door of desires, from putting desires ahead of the obedience and pleasure of Allah. 3. The door of anger, from hatred and enmity to the creation. There […]
From Ibnul Qayyim’s The Path to Guidance, Chapter Nine, pp 89-92 ,Translated by: Aboo ‘Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (1) That Allaah, the Exalted, wipes away sins by the five prayers. (2) That the five prayers are an expiation for what occurs between them, if major sins are avoided. (3) That sins burn and destroy a person, […]