🌱 The Completion and Perfection of Fasting Lies in Restraining the Soul from All Desires

Al-Qurṭubī — may Allah have mercy upon him — said in his Tafsīr (2/273), after defining fasting:

“And fasting in the legislation (ash-Sharʿ) is: refraining from the nullifiers (things that break the fast), along with the accompanying of the intention with it, from the rising of the dawn until the setting of the sun. And its completion and its perfection is by avoiding the prohibited matters and not falling into the forbidden matters, due to his statement ﷺ: ‘Whoever does not leave false speech and acting upon it, then Allah has no need of him leaving his food and his drink.’”

📖 Make for Yourself a Personal Notebook When Reciting the Qur’an!

Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn, may Allah have mercy upon him, mentioned:

“And some of the people of knowledge in Ramadan, while he was in the time of reciting the Qur’an, would make with himself a personal notebook. Whenever he read something and a verse from the Book of Allah stopped him — in it were many meanings or something like that — he would record it in the notebook. So Ramadan would not leave except that he had attained much good from the meanings of the Noble Qur’an.

And indeed, I saw a small booklet of Shaykh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Saʿdī, may Allah have mercy upon him. He said that he wrote it in Ramadan while he was reading the Qur’an. A verse would pass by him, so he would stop at it, and reflect upon it, and write upon it benefits that you do not find in any tafsīr.

So for this reason, Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy upon him, encouraged reflecting upon the Qur’an for the one who desires guidance. And his Shaykh, Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

‘Whoever reflects upon the Qur’an seeking guidance from it, the path of truth will become clear to him.’

So Shaykh al-Islām, may Allah have mercy upon him, stipulated two conditions: reflection, and seeking guidance — because a person may reflect, but he did not intend seeking guidance, rather he only wants to know the meanings of the Qur’an. He does not want to be guided by it nor make it a lamp for himself by which he walks. So if you reflect upon it while you want guidance from it, and you want to make the Qur’an a lamp for yourself by which you walk, the path of truth will become clear to you.”

📚 [Al-Kāfiyah al-Shāfiyah fī al-Intiṣār lil-Firqah al-Nājiyah, by Imām Ibn al-Qayyim — explanation of Shaykh Muḥammad ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUthaymīn (1/503–504)]

Ramadan Has Come to You — Glad Tidings from the Messenger of Allah ﷺ

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O Seeker of Good, Come Forward: Ramadan Has Approached — The Honoured Guest That Honours Its People!

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✨How Allah Purifies His Servants Before Admitting Them into His Paradise!

Imām Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

The servant cannot enter Paradise except by purification; and this purification occurs in the abode of the worldly life through four things:

1. Repentance.
2. Seeking forgiveness.
3. Good deeds that erase sins.
4. Expiating calamities.

And if these four do not suffice to free him and purify him; he is purified in the Barzakh through three things:

1. The prayer of the people of iman over him, their seeking forgiveness for him, and their intercession for him.
2. The trial of the grave.
3. What his brothers from the Muslims gift to him from the gifts of deeds.

Then if these three do not suffice for purification; he is purified in the standing place through three things:

1. The terrors of the Day of Resurrection and the severity of the standing.
2. The intercession of the intercessors.
3. The pardon of Allah, Mighty and Majestic.

Then if these three do not suffice for his purification; then the Fire will be a purification for him and a cleansing for his filth,

And his remaining in it will be according to the abundance of the filth and its scarcity, its severity and its weakness, and its accumulation; so when his filth departs and he becomes pure and good: he will be taken out of the Fire and admitted into Paradise.

📚 [Madārij al-Sālikīn (1/463)]

Preparing for the Arrival of Ramadan: The Noble Guest Soon to Arrive and Quick to Depart — Will You Honour Him?

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Ramadan and the Chaining of the Devils: The Secret Behind the Awakening of Hearts!

Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

And for this reason the Prophet ﷺ said: “When Ramadan enters, the gates of Paradise are opened, the gates of the Fire are closed, and the devils are chained”;

For indeed the pathways of the devils, which is the blood, become constricted;

And when they become constricted, the hearts are incited toward performing good deeds, by which the gates of Paradise are opened, and toward abandoning evil deeds, by which the gates of the Fire are opened, and the devils are chained, so their strength and their action become weakened by their being chained, so they are not able to do in the month of Ramadan what they used to do in other than it, and he did not say that they were killed nor that they died;

Rather, he said: “they are chained,” and the chained one from the devils may harm, but this is less and weaker than what occurs in other than Ramadan;

So it is according to the completeness of the fast and its deficiency;

So whoever’s fast is complete: it repels the devil with a repelling that the repelling of the deficient fast does not repel;

So this suitability is apparent in preventing the fasting person from food.

📚(Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā 25/246)

The Superiority of Correct Creed Over Outward Righteousness: Why the Sinful Person of the Sunnah Is Better Than the Devout Innovator!

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اللَّهُمَّ صَلِّ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا صَلَّيْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ، وَبَارِكْ عَلَى مُحَمَّدٍ وَعَلَى آلِ مُحَمَّدٍ كَمَا بَارَكْتَ عَلَى إِبْرَاهِيمَ وَعَلَى آلِ إِبْرَاهِيمَ إِنَّكَ حَمِيدٌ مَجِيدٌ.

O Allah, send Your Ṣalāh (praise, grace, honour, and mercy) upon Muḥammad and upon the family of Muḥammad, as You sent Your Ṣalāh (praise, grace, honour, and mercy) upon Ibrāhīm and upon the family of Ibrāhīm; indeed, You are Praiseworthy, Most Glorious. And bless Muḥammad and the family of Muḥammad, as You blessed Ibrāhīm and the family of Ibrāhīm; indeed, You are Praiseworthy, Most Glorious.

Tawḥīd: The Key to the Expansion of the Chest and the Tranquility of the Heart

From ʿĀ’ishah, may Allah be pleased with her, that the Prophet ﷺ gathered the members of his household, so he said: “If grief or distress afflicts one of you, then let him say: Allah, Allah is my Lord, I do not associate anything with Him (اللَّهُ اللَّهُ رَبِّي، لَا أُشْرِكُ بِهِ شَيْئًا).”

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Imām Ibn al-Qayyim, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

So the greatest causes of the expansion of the chest is Tawḥīd, and according to its completeness, and its strength, and its increase, the expansion of the chest of its possessor will be. Allah, the Most High, said:

“Is he whose breast Allah has opened to Islām, so that he is in light from his Lord (as he who is non-Muslim)?” (Az-Zumar 39:22)

And He, the Most High, said:

“And whomsoever Allah wills to guide, He opens his breast to Islām; and whomsoever He wills to send astray, He makes his breast closed and constricted, as if he is climbing up to the sky.” (Al-Anʿām 6:125)

So guidance and Tawḥīd are from the greatest causes of the expansion of the chest, and shirk and misguidance are from the greatest causes of the constriction of the chest and its tightness.

📚 Zād al-Maʿād: (2/41)

🌺 Good Is in What Allah Has Chosen

Al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Saʿdī, may Allah have mercy upon him, said:

From the gentleness of Allah, the Most High, toward His servant is that his soul may long for a worldly means from among the means, in which he believes his goal will be attained. But Allah, the Most High, knows that it will harm him and prevent him from what will benefit him, so He places a barrier between him and it. Thus, the servant remains disliking it, not realizing that his Lord has been gentle with him—by preserving for him that which is beneficial, and diverting from him that which is harmful. And for this reason, being pleased with the decree in such matters is from the highest of stations.

📚 Al-Mawāhib al-Rabbāniyyah min al-Āyāt al-Qurʾāniyyah (150)

Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī — may Allah the Most High have mercy upon him — said:

“Indeed, the most noble gate from the gates of knowledge is the knowledge of Tawḥīd, which is the first obligation upon the servants, and it is the firm rope of Allah, which whoever actualizes it will attain happiness through the intercession of the master of the Messengers, Muḥammad, the truthful, the believed, the trustworthy, upon him be from his Lord the purest prayer and the most complete greeting and peace, and he will inherit the Gardens of Bliss along with the Prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous.

And due to the virtue of this knowledge, the greatness of its rank, and the tremendousness of its nobility, the authored works from the scholars of the earlier ones and the contemporaries have become abundant, and indeed the pen would surely be incapable of encompassing their authored works. And from those who authored abundantly in the modern era are the Imams of the Daʿwah from the scholars of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and at their forefront is the renewing Shaykh Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb, may Allah have mercy upon him and purify his soil. For indeed Allah rescued, through his authored works in correcting the belief and abandoning shirk, superstitions, innovations, and misguidances, much of the creation in the Arabian Peninsula and other than it from the lands of the world, from the Arabs and the non-Arabs, just as is known to the people of knowledge, understanding, fairness, and faithfulness. So may Allah reward him on behalf of Islam and its people with the best reward, and the highest bliss in the Gardens of Bliss.”

📚 [al-Taʿlīqāt al-Ḥisān ʿalā Uṣūl al-Īmān, p. 5–6]

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💫The Endless and Magnificent Reward of Reciting the Qur’an!

✍ Shaykh al-ʿAllāmah Zayd ibn Muḥammad ibn Hādī al-Madkhalī — may Allah the Most High have mercy upon him — said:

“And speak as much as you wish about the abundant reward in the recitation of the Qur’an: every letter is with a good deed, and the good deed is multiplied by ten. So whenever you increase in the recitation of the Qur’an, you earn from the good deeds that which you are never able to enumerate at all; rather Allah is the One who enumerates it, and He is the One who rewards for it.

So how many letters are in the Noble Qur’an?

If you complete the muṣḥaf three times in every month—and it is the most moderate and most just of matters—at a rate of three ajzāʾ every day and night, ten times, and the Qur’an is three hundred thousand letters, and twenty-three thousand letters, and six hundred and seventy-one letters, as the mufassirūn mentioned—every one of them is good deeds. And if you complete it in the month once, you have abundant profit, especially if you are from those who become acquainted, during the recitation, with the meanings of the verses.”

📚 Al-Fatḥ wat-Tasdid fī Sharḥ Kitāb at-Tawḥīd (143–144).

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قَالَ الشَّيْخُ سُلَيْمَانُ الرُّحَيْلِي حَفِظَهُ اللَّهُ
Shaykh Sulayman Ar-Ruhayli — may Allah preserve him — said:

كَمْ مِنْ رَمَضَانَ قَدْ ضَيَّعْنَاهُ
How many Ramaḍāns we have wasted

وَوَدَّعْنَاهُ
and bid farewell to,

وَمَا أَوْدَعْنَاهُ
and did not deposit anything in it.

فَهَلْ آنَ لَنَا
So has the time not come for us

أَنْ نَغْتَنِمَ الْخَيْرَاتِ
to seize the acts of goodness

فِي شَهْرِ الْخَيْرَاتِ
in the month of goodness,

وَأَنْ نُحْسِنَ لِأَنْفُسِنَا
and to do good for ourselves

بِمَا فِيهِ مِنَ الْبَرَكَاتِ
by what is in it of blessings

وَالْأُجُورِ الْمُضَاعَفَاتِ
and multiplied rewards.

فَلْنَعْقِدْ قُلُوبَنَا عَلَى حُسْنِ النِّيَّةِ
So let us bind our hearts upon good intention,

وَلْنُعَلِّ فِي نُفُوسِنَا الْهِمَّةَ
and let us raise within ourselves determination,

وَلْنَتَذَكَّرْ نَدَمَنَا
and let us remember our regret

عِنْدَ وَدَاعِ شَهْرِنَا الْمَاضِي
when bidding farewell to our past month,

وَلْنَحْرِصْ عَلَى شَهْرِنَا الْآتِي
and let us be keen regarding our coming month.

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📖 New Book Announcement: Freeing the Captives from Imitating the Disbelievers in Their Festivals

📝 By His Eminence Shaykh ʿAbd al-Majīd Jumʿah, may Allah preserve him

Translated by Abu Jabir Rayyan al-Jazāʾirī

✨ In a time when the symbols and festivals of disbelief are beautified and presented as harmless customs, many Muslims have unknowingly fallen into imitation, while the reality of its danger upon one’s religion remains concealed. This timely and powerful work comes as a light of clarity and a call to liberation.

🔐 This book exposes the reality of imitating the disbelievers in their festivals, warns against its grave consequences, and establishes its prohibition with decisive evidences from the Qur’an, the Sunnah, the statements of the Salaf, and the authoritative positions of the four madhabs — leaving no room for doubt and no path for confusion.

⚖️ It is a call to preserve the honour of Islamic identity, to safeguard the boundaries set by Allah, and to free the hearts from practices that weaken loyalty to the truth and strengthen resemblance to falsehood.

🤲 We ask Allah to grant acceptance to this work, to make it a means of guidance and protection, and to benefit the Muslims through it in every land.

What If This Is Your Last Ramadan? Assume It Will Be — And Rise With the Urgency of One Who Will Never See Another!

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