Types of Companionship
Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd رحمه الله said:
"Choose the best for companionship and friendship; someone who will help you in your quest, in drawing nearer to your Lord, and agrees with you in your noble objective and intention. Take [from me] the most precise gauge in categorising friends:
• A friend who befriends you [solely] for his welfare.
• A friend who befriends you [solely] for fun.
• A friend who befriends you for virtue.
As regards the first two, then their relationship with you is cut off when the necessitating reason is fulfilled: the attainment of welfare in the first and fun in the second.
As for the third category, then this is the one we will concentrate on. He is the one who is driven into a friendship due to mutual belief in the first establishment of virtue in both people.”
[The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd رحمه الله pg. 58]
Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd رحمه الله said:
"Choose the best for companionship and friendship; someone who will help you in your quest, in drawing nearer to your Lord, and agrees with you in your noble objective and intention. Take [from me] the most precise gauge in categorising friends:
• A friend who befriends you [solely] for his welfare.
• A friend who befriends you [solely] for fun.
• A friend who befriends you for virtue.
As regards the first two, then their relationship with you is cut off when the necessitating reason is fulfilled: the attainment of welfare in the first and fun in the second.
As for the third category, then this is the one we will concentrate on. He is the one who is driven into a friendship due to mutual belief in the first establishment of virtue in both people.”
[The Etiquette of Seeking Knowledge by Shaykh Bakr Abu Zayd رحمه الله pg. 58]
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Beware of Whom You Befriend
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Shaykh Muhammad ibn Sālih al-Uthaymīn رحمه الله
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Shaykh Muhammad ibn Sālih al-Uthaymīn رحمه الله
Umar ibn al-Khattāb رضي الله عنه said:
"Stick with your true brothers. You can live in comfort with them, as they are a delight in times of ease, and you can lean on them in times of hardship.
Assume the best about your brother until he comes with something that should alarm you from him.
Avoid your enemy, and beware of befriending anyone but the trustworthy, and there is no trust for the one who doesn't fear Allāh.
Do not befriend the corrupt, as he will teach you his corruption, and do not reveal your secrets to him, and only consult those who fear Allāh, the Exalted."
[Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin, p.132 By Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdīsī, رحمه الله]
"Stick with your true brothers. You can live in comfort with them, as they are a delight in times of ease, and you can lean on them in times of hardship.
Assume the best about your brother until he comes with something that should alarm you from him.
Avoid your enemy, and beware of befriending anyone but the trustworthy, and there is no trust for the one who doesn't fear Allāh.
Do not befriend the corrupt, as he will teach you his corruption, and do not reveal your secrets to him, and only consult those who fear Allāh, the Exalted."
[Mukhtasar Minhaj al-Qasidin, p.132 By Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdīsī, رحمه الله]
اللهم ارزُقنَا الصحبة الصالحة في الدنيا والآخرة
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oh Allāh grant us righteous companionship in this world and the hereafter. 🍃
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oh Allāh grant us righteous companionship in this world and the hereafter. 🍃
قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية رحمه الله:
الشتيمة والوٓقيعة والتهجم عند النقاش حيلة العاجز وبضاعة المفلس فإن الرد بمجرد الشتم والتهويل لايعجز عنه أحد.
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Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:
"Insulting, slandering, and being aggressive during a discussion are tricks of those who are weak and a commodity of those who are bankrupt (in ‘ilm). Verily, refutations based upon insults and intimidation, everyone has the capability of doing that."
[Majmū’ al-Fatāwā, 4/186]
الشتيمة والوٓقيعة والتهجم عند النقاش حيلة العاجز وبضاعة المفلس فإن الرد بمجرد الشتم والتهويل لايعجز عنه أحد.
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Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله said:
"Insulting, slandering, and being aggressive during a discussion are tricks of those who are weak and a commodity of those who are bankrupt (in ‘ilm). Verily, refutations based upon insults and intimidation, everyone has the capability of doing that."
[Majmū’ al-Fatāwā, 4/186]
Forwarded from Manhaj As-Salaf
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Preparing for death
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Luḥaidān رحمه الله
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Luḥaidān رحمه الله
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Shaykh Sāleh al-‘Usaymī حفظه الله
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Why Sincerity is Difficult for the Beginner Student of Knowledge
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Why Sincerity is Difficult for the Beginner Student of Knowledge
How to attain ikhlās [having purity of intention and sincerity] in seeking knowledge:
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn rahimahuallāh states:
So if someone says to you:
How does ikhlās in seeking knowledge come about? It comes about through [a number of] matters:
1) It is that in doing that [seeking of knowledge], you have as your intention that you are complying with Allāh’s command because Allāh, the Most High, commanded with that.
As He سبحانه وتعالى said:
فَاعۡلَمۡ اَنَّهٗ لَاۤ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ وَاسۡتَغۡفِرۡ لِذَنۡۢبِكَ
Have knowledge that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh. And seek forgiveness for your sin.
[Sūrat Muhammad 47 āyah 19]
And he صلى الله عليه وسلم encouraged upon knowledge; and encouraging upon a matter necessitates loving it and being pleased with it and commanding with it.
2) It is that in doing that, you intend to preserve the Sharī’ah of Allāh, because preserving the Sharī’ah of Allāh occurs through learning, and it comes about through preserving it in the chests [of people] and it comes about through writing down, writing down the books.
3) It is that in doing that, you intend to protect the Sharī’ah and defend it, because were it not for the people of knowledge, then the Sharī’ah would not have been protected and no one would have defended it.
And therefore you find, for example, Shaykh ul-Islām ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله and other than him from the people of knowledge who resisted and blocked the people of innovation and clarified the false and futile nature of their innovations, we see that they [these people of knowledge] attained a great deal of good.
4) It is that in doing that, your intention is to be following the Sharī’ah of Muhammadصلى الله عليه وسلم because you are not able to follow his Sharī’ah until you have knowledge of it.
[Sharḥ hilyah tālib il-‘ilm p.14 of ash-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn]
Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn rahimahuallāh states:
So if someone says to you:
How does ikhlās in seeking knowledge come about? It comes about through [a number of] matters:
1) It is that in doing that [seeking of knowledge], you have as your intention that you are complying with Allāh’s command because Allāh, the Most High, commanded with that.
As He سبحانه وتعالى said:
فَاعۡلَمۡ اَنَّهٗ لَاۤ اِلٰهَ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ وَاسۡتَغۡفِرۡ لِذَنۡۢبِكَ
Have knowledge that none has the right to be worshipped except Allāh. And seek forgiveness for your sin.
[Sūrat Muhammad 47 āyah 19]
And he صلى الله عليه وسلم encouraged upon knowledge; and encouraging upon a matter necessitates loving it and being pleased with it and commanding with it.
2) It is that in doing that, you intend to preserve the Sharī’ah of Allāh, because preserving the Sharī’ah of Allāh occurs through learning, and it comes about through preserving it in the chests [of people] and it comes about through writing down, writing down the books.
3) It is that in doing that, you intend to protect the Sharī’ah and defend it, because were it not for the people of knowledge, then the Sharī’ah would not have been protected and no one would have defended it.
And therefore you find, for example, Shaykh ul-Islām ibn Taymiyyah رحمه الله and other than him from the people of knowledge who resisted and blocked the people of innovation and clarified the false and futile nature of their innovations, we see that they [these people of knowledge] attained a great deal of good.
4) It is that in doing that, your intention is to be following the Sharī’ah of Muhammadصلى الله عليه وسلم because you are not able to follow his Sharī’ah until you have knowledge of it.
[Sharḥ hilyah tālib il-‘ilm p.14 of ash-Shaykh Muhammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-Uthaymīn]
قال الإمام محمد بن عثيمين رحمه الله تعالى:
والمبتدئُ يَعقِلُ العلم شيئاً فشيئاً، لو أخذهُ مرةً واحدةً غصَّ، يقولُ العامّةُ - مثلاً حقيقياً -:
مَن كبَّرَ اللُّقمةَ غصَّ، ومن صغَّرَ شبعَ
[شرح الآجرومية ١٧]
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Imam bin Uthaymīn رحمه الله said:
And the beginner should comprehend ilm (Islamic knowledge) little by little. If he takes it all at once, he chokes. The common people have a realistic saying:
"The one who takes big bites chokes, and the one who takes small bites becomes full"
[The Explanation of al-'Ajurromiyah]
والمبتدئُ يَعقِلُ العلم شيئاً فشيئاً، لو أخذهُ مرةً واحدةً غصَّ، يقولُ العامّةُ - مثلاً حقيقياً -:
مَن كبَّرَ اللُّقمةَ غصَّ، ومن صغَّرَ شبعَ
[شرح الآجرومية ١٧]
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Imam bin Uthaymīn رحمه الله said:
And the beginner should comprehend ilm (Islamic knowledge) little by little. If he takes it all at once, he chokes. The common people have a realistic saying:
"The one who takes big bites chokes, and the one who takes small bites becomes full"
[The Explanation of al-'Ajurromiyah]
كان يقول الشيخ مقبل الوادعي رحمه الله لطلابه:
يا أبنائي لو كان العلم يسقى في كأس لأسقيتموه، ولكن لا يتحصّل عليه إلا بكد وحكِ الركب
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Shaykh Muqbil Al-Wadi’ee رحمه الله used to say to his students:
“Oh my children, if knowledge could be poured into a glass, I would pour it for you, but it is not obtained except by hard work, exhaustion, and scraping of the knees.”
[Nubdhah Mukhtasarah, pg. 44]
يا أبنائي لو كان العلم يسقى في كأس لأسقيتموه، ولكن لا يتحصّل عليه إلا بكد وحكِ الركب
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Shaykh Muqbil Al-Wadi’ee رحمه الله used to say to his students:
“Oh my children, if knowledge could be poured into a glass, I would pour it for you, but it is not obtained except by hard work, exhaustion, and scraping of the knees.”
[Nubdhah Mukhtasarah, pg. 44]
قال: قيل لابن المبارك:
ما خير ما أُعطِيَ الرجل؟ قال: غريزة عقل.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: أدب حسن.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: أخ صالح يستشيره.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: صَمتٌ طويل.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: موت عاجل.
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It was said to Ibn al-Mubarak:
"What is the best thing given to a person?“ Ibn al-Mubarak answered: "Intellect."
Then he was asked: "What if he wasn’t given that?” To which Ibn al-Mubarak replied: “Good manners.”
It was then said to him: “If he doesn’t have that?” He then responded by saying: “Good brothers can go to him and consult.”
They then asked:“And what if they don’t have that?” He replied: “Long silences.”
Then they asked him: “What if they don’t have that?” He responded in sense of finality by saying: “Urgent death.
[روضة العقلاء ونزهة الفضلاء]
ما خير ما أُعطِيَ الرجل؟ قال: غريزة عقل.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: أدب حسن.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: أخ صالح يستشيره.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: صَمتٌ طويل.
قيل: فإن لم يكن؟ قال: موت عاجل.
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It was said to Ibn al-Mubarak:
"What is the best thing given to a person?“ Ibn al-Mubarak answered: "Intellect."
Then he was asked: "What if he wasn’t given that?” To which Ibn al-Mubarak replied: “Good manners.”
It was then said to him: “If he doesn’t have that?” He then responded by saying: “Good brothers can go to him and consult.”
They then asked:“And what if they don’t have that?” He replied: “Long silences.”
Then they asked him: “What if they don’t have that?” He responded in sense of finality by saying: “Urgent death.
[روضة العقلاء ونزهة الفضلاء]
قال الإمام ابن الجوزي رحمه الله:
ومَن سَرَّح لسانهُ في أعراضِ المسلمين واتبعَ عَوراتهم، أمسكَ اللهُ لسانهُ عن الشهادةِ عند الموت.
[بحر الدموع ١٢٤/١]
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Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:
“Whoever sets his tongue free to slander and speak about the honors of the Muslims, and seeks their faults, Allah will hold back his tongue from professing the Shahadah [at the time of] death.”
[بحر الدموع]
ومَن سَرَّح لسانهُ في أعراضِ المسلمين واتبعَ عَوراتهم، أمسكَ اللهُ لسانهُ عن الشهادةِ عند الموت.
[بحر الدموع ١٢٤/١]
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Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:
“Whoever sets his tongue free to slander and speak about the honors of the Muslims, and seeks their faults, Allah will hold back his tongue from professing the Shahadah [at the time of] death.”
[بحر الدموع]
قال الشيخ عبدالسلام الشويعر حفظه الله:
وليعلم طالب العلم أنه ما أنعم الله عز وجل عليك بنعمة بعد نعمة الإسلام كنعمة طلب العلم.
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Shaykh Abdul Salām ash-Shuwayir said:
“And the student of knowledge should know that Allah عز وجل did not bless you with a blessing after the blessing of Islam like the blessing of seeking knowledge.”
[محاضرة قواعد لطالب العلم]
وليعلم طالب العلم أنه ما أنعم الله عز وجل عليك بنعمة بعد نعمة الإسلام كنعمة طلب العلم.
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Shaykh Abdul Salām ash-Shuwayir said:
“And the student of knowledge should know that Allah عز وجل did not bless you with a blessing after the blessing of Islam like the blessing of seeking knowledge.”
[محاضرة قواعد لطالب العلم]
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قال الشيخ ابن باز رحمه الله:
الوقت هو الحياة، ومن أضاع وقته أضاع حياته، ومن أضاع حياته ندم ولا تنفعه الندامة.
[مجموع فتاوی ابن باز]
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shaykh ibn bāz رحمه الله said:
"time is life. and whoever has wasted his time has wasted his life. and whoever has wasted his life has regret. however, the regret does not benefit him."
[majmūʿ al-fatāwā,16/261]
الوقت هو الحياة، ومن أضاع وقته أضاع حياته، ومن أضاع حياته ندم ولا تنفعه الندامة.
[مجموع فتاوی ابن باز]
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shaykh ibn bāz رحمه الله said:
"time is life. and whoever has wasted his time has wasted his life. and whoever has wasted his life has regret. however, the regret does not benefit him."
[majmūʿ al-fatāwā,16/261]
قال أبو زيد النحوي:
The Grammarian Abu Zayd Said:
لا يضيء الكتاب حتى يُظلم. وفي رواية: لا يُنير.
“The Book Does Not Glow Until It Is Darkened.”
What he intended by this was to encourage the student to fill in the empty white spaces in his books by taking notes.
[شرح رسالة آداب الدّارس والمُدرّس ٢٢٥]
The Grammarian Abu Zayd Said:
لا يضيء الكتاب حتى يُظلم. وفي رواية: لا يُنير.
“The Book Does Not Glow Until It Is Darkened.”
What he intended by this was to encourage the student to fill in the empty white spaces in his books by taking notes.
[شرح رسالة آداب الدّارس والمُدرّس ٢٢٥]
Forwarded from درر وفوائد علميّة 📚🌸
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الشيخ ابن عثيمين رحمه الله تعالى ❤️🩹
"الشيخ الناصح كالأب، يربيك على ما ينفعك لا على ما تشتهيه.”
The Sheikh that gives sincere advice is like a father; he raises you upon that which benefits you, not upon that which you desire.
"الشيخ الناصح كالأب، يربيك على ما ينفعك لا على ما تشتهيه.”
The Sheikh that gives sincere advice is like a father; he raises you upon that which benefits you, not upon that which you desire.
عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رضى الله عنه قَالَ، قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم:
لَمَّا قَضَى اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ كَتَبَ فِي كِتَابِهِ، فَهْوَ عِنْدَهُ فَوْقَ الْعَرْشِ إِنَّ رَحْمَتِي غَلَبَتْ غَضَبِي
[صحيح البخاري]
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Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
"When Allah completed the creation, He wrote in His Book which is with Him on His Throne, "My Mercy overpowers My Anger."
[al-Bukhari 3194]
لَمَّا قَضَى اللَّهُ الْخَلْقَ كَتَبَ فِي كِتَابِهِ، فَهْوَ عِنْدَهُ فَوْقَ الْعَرْشِ إِنَّ رَحْمَتِي غَلَبَتْ غَضَبِي
[صحيح البخاري]
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Abu Huraira reported: The Messenger of Allah صلى الله عليه وسلم said:
"When Allah completed the creation, He wrote in His Book which is with Him on His Throne, "My Mercy overpowers My Anger."
[al-Bukhari 3194]
قال الشيخ ابن عثيمين رحمه الله:
كلما كان الإنسان أقوى إيمانًا بالله عز وجل كان القرآن أنفع له في شفاء مرض القلب وفي نور القلب وفي انشراح الصدر وفي طمأنينة القلب وجرب تجد.
[شرح الكافية الشافية ١/١٩٨]
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Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymīn رحمه الله said:
“The more one strengthens his faith in Allah عز وجل, the more effective the Qur’an will be in curing his heart of its diseases, illuminating the heart, expanding his chest, and developing a sense of tranquility in his heart. Try and you will discover.”
[Explanation of al-Kafiyah ash-Shafiyah]
كلما كان الإنسان أقوى إيمانًا بالله عز وجل كان القرآن أنفع له في شفاء مرض القلب وفي نور القلب وفي انشراح الصدر وفي طمأنينة القلب وجرب تجد.
[شرح الكافية الشافية ١/١٩٨]
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Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymīn رحمه الله said:
“The more one strengthens his faith in Allah عز وجل, the more effective the Qur’an will be in curing his heart of its diseases, illuminating the heart, expanding his chest, and developing a sense of tranquility in his heart. Try and you will discover.”
[Explanation of al-Kafiyah ash-Shafiyah]