Abdullāh Ibn Abbās said:

‎ إِنَّ لِلْحَسَنَةِ ضِيَاءً فِي الْوَجْهِ وَنُورًا فِي الْقَلْبِ وَسَعَةً فِي الرِّزْقِ وَقُوَّةً فِي الْبَدَنِ وَمَحَبَّةً فِي قُلُوبِ الْخَلْقِ
Verily, good deeds will brighten the face, enlighten the heart, expand provision, strengthen the body, and cause love in the hearts of the creation.

‎وَإِنَّ لِلسَّيِّئَةِ سَوَادًا فِي الْوَجْهِ وَظُلْمَةً فِي الْقَبْرِ وَالْقَلْبِ وَوَهْنًا فِي الْبَدَنِ وَنَقْصًا فِي الرِّزْقِ وَبُغْضَةً فِي قُلُوبِ الْخَلْقِ

Verily, evil deeds will blacken the face, darken the grave and the heart, weaken the body, restrict provision, and cause hatred in the hearts of the creation.

‎ ● {الجواب الكافي ١/٥٤}

Which Thing Obligates Jannah?

The Prophet ﷺ was asked: “O Messenger of Allāh which thing obligates Jannah?”

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : عليك بحسن الكلام وبذل الطعام.

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “You must speak kindly and give food generously.”

● [أخرجه البخاري في خلق أفعال العباد ص٧٩، السلسلة الصحيحة ٤:٥٧٨]

♦️ Speaking out of ignorance

Bilāl Bin Sa'd رحمه الله said:

‎"Righteous deeds are not accepted along with (these) three things:

‎1. Shirk (Major and Minor)
‎2. Kufr
‎3. Opinion.

‎What is 'Opinion'?"

‎He said: "Ignoring the book of Allāh and the Sunnah of Allāh's Messenger ﷺ and acting upon ones own opinion

Eesa Ibn Maryam عليهما السلام said:

من تعلَّم وعلَّم وعَمِلَ فذاك يُدعا عظيماً في ملكوت السماء.

“Whosoever learns, then knows, then acts, then this is considered something grand in the kingdom of the heavens.”

[كتاب العلم لأبي خيثمة ١٠]

Dear brothers and sisters,

Please make Duaa for our brothers and sisters in Gaza, especially in the Qiyam prayer (the night prayer) during the last third of the night,

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Our Lord, the Blessed, the Superior, comes every night down on the nearest Heaven to us when the last third of the night remains, saying: "Is there anyone to invoke Me, so that I may respond to invocation? Is there anyone to ask Me, so that I may grant him his request? Is there anyone seeking My forgiveness, so that I may forgive him?"

O Allah, help and protect the people of Gaza. O Allah, ease their pain and suffering.
O Allah, have mercy on their deceased, heal their sick, and grant them patience and peace 🤲🏻

I was reading from the book Suwar min Hayaat as-Sahabah and I came across the following when reading regarding Sa’eed ibn ‘Aamir. It was mentioned that Sa’eed witnessed the execution of Khubayb ibn ‘Adi. They brought him out in front of the masses of Quraysh, from the women to the children. They wanted to take revenge from the Prophet (ﷺ) for the kills of Badr by killing the captives.

And what astonished me was that when Khubayb was being punished, portions of his body being cut one after the other, they would ask him the following:

Would you love it to be that Muhammad was in your place and you were saved?

And he would reply, with tears emptying out him, with the following:

By Allah, I would not love to be safe and secure amongst my family whilst even a thorn stings Muhammad.

SubhanAllah!

Imam Ibn al-Qayyim said: "Grief weakens the heart."

‎● {تارك الهجرتين و باب السعدتين ١/٤١٨}

قال الإمام الشّافعي رحمه الله :
Imam Al-Shafi’i رحمه الله said:

ثلاثة أشياء دواء من لا دواء له :
“Three things are a cure for whom there is no cure:

العنب ولبن اللقاح وقصب السكر،
Grapes, fermented milk, and sugar cane.

ولولا قصب السكر ما أقمت ببلدكم .
Were it not for sugar cane, I would not have stayed in your country.”

- سيّر أعلام النُّبلاء ( ٥٦/١٠) -

Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen رحمه الله said,

“By Allaah, there’s nobody who honestly and sincerely turns to Allaah and does the deeds of the people of Jannah, except that Allaah wouldn’t let him down, never.”

[Sharh al Arba’een pg. 104]

Sheikh Ibn Taymiyyah said: "When people help one another in sin and transgression, they finish by hating each other."

‎● {الفتاوى ١٥/١٢٨}

Ibn al Qayyim رحمه الله said,

“This is from the miracles of the Quran because there are many paths that lead to darkness, but only one leads to light."

[بداية الفوائد ١/١٢٧]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

‎“Man almost forgets the knowledge he has gained because of the sins he has committed.”

‎[Al-Fawa'id | Pg. 248]

Ibn Taymiyyah said: "Sometimes, I have a certain need that only Allāh can fulfil, so I call upon him. Then, I find that the door of dialogue with Allāh opens up for me, and through it I taste the sweetness of discourse with Him and the joy of knowing Him that far surpasses the urgency of obtaining and answer to my prayer, and so I prefer for the answer to my prayer be delayed for fear of losing this connection once my need is fulfilled."

‎● {مجموع فتاوى ١٠/٣٣٣}

Two Wolves!

The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ said: “Two wolves roaming freely among sheep are less destructive to them than the desire for wealth and fame is to a person’s religion.”

● [سنن الترمذي كتاب الزهد ٢٣٧٦ ، هذا حديث حسن صحيح]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله wrote:

The key to enlivening one's heart is:

• Contemplating the Qur'ān

• Humbling oneself before Allāh in the last part of the night

• Leaving off sins

[Hadiya al-Arwah | Pg. 48]

Sheikh Fawzan said: "Current most serious threat to our Ummah is that ignorant Jaahils are being active in the Dawah field. They don't have ilm, yet they with their own misguidance and ignorance give Dawah."

‎● [إعانة العستفيد ١/٣٣٧]

ما مِن عَبْدٍ يَمُوتُ له عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ،
“No servant who dies and finds good from Allah (in the Hereafter)

يَسُرُّهُ أنْ يَرْجِعَ إلى الدُّنْيا وأنَّ له الدُّنْيا وما فيها،
would wish to come back to this world even if he were given the whole world and whatever is in it,

إلَّا الشَّهِيدَ؛
except the martyr

لِما يَرَى مِن فَضْلِ الشَّهادَةِ؛
who, on seeing the superiority of martyrdom,

فإنَّه يَسُرُّهُ أنْ يَرْجِعَ إلى الدُّنْيا، فيُقْتَلَ مَرَّةً أُخْرَى.
would like to come back to the world and get killed again (in Allah's Cause).”

[صحيح البخاري]