Uthmān رضي الله عنه said:

“Allāh only gave you this world so that you may seek out [by way of it] the Hereafter. And He did not give it to you so that you could rely on it!”

[Al-Bidāyah Wa An-Nihāyah: 7/241]

‎﴾يَا أَيُّهَا النَّاسُ إِنَّا خَلَقْنَاكُم مِّن ذَكَرٍ وَأُنثَىٰ وَجَعَلْنَاكُمْ شُعُوبًا وَقَبَائِلَ لِتَعَارَفُوا ۚ إِنَّ أَكْرَمَكُمْ عِندَ اللَّهِ أَتْقَاكُمْ﴿

Translation: O people! We created you from a male and a female, and made you races and tribes, so that you may know one another. The best among you in the sight of Allaah is the most righteous.

Commentary: So Allaah made clear in this noble verse that people have been made into nations and tribes so that they may come to know each other, not for them to boast and have pride over one another.

And Allaah considered the noblest of them to be the one with the most piety and fear of Him!

Source: Ibn Taymiyyah’s Fatawa (v. 3, p. 456)

Prophet ﷺ said,

“Be on your guard against committing oppression, for oppression is a darkness on the Day of Resurrection, and be on your guard against stinginess for stinginess destroyed those who were before you, as it incited them to shed blood and make lawful what was unlawful for them.”

[Muslim 2578]

Malik Ibn Dinar رحمه الله said:

"O people of the Quran, what has the Quran planted in your hearts? For the Quran is the spring of the hearts just as the rain is the spring of the earth."

الجامع لأحكام القرآن 16/52

وَعَسَىٰٓ أَن تَكۡرَهُواْ شَيۡـًٔا وَهُوَ خَيۡرٌ لَّكُمْۖ وَعَسَىٰٓ أَن تُحِبُّواْ شَيۡـًٔا وَهُوَ شَرٌّ لَّكُمْۗ وَٱللَّهُ يَعۡلَمُ وَأَنتُمۡ لَا تَعۡلَمُونَ

and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know. (2:216)

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Al-Allaamah al-Uthaymeen (rahimahullah):

Do not dislike something which Allah has chosen (decreed), for indeed Allah has chosen something which has a tremendous benefit in it, you are just not aware of it!

[Sharh Riyadh as-Saaliheen v.3 pg.309]

The Beauty of Silence

Ibn Hazm al-Andalusi (rahimahullah) stated:
How beautiful is silence with regards to sensitive/touchy issues! How many times have we witnessed those who were destroyed by their speech! Yet, we have never seen anyone, whom it has reached us about, who was destroyed by his silence.

[Ar-Rasad'il; pg. 402, V.1 | Translated by Abu Afnaan Muhammad Abdullah]

Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abdul Wahhaab (rahimahullah) said:

“What is the worth of the religion to you? What is Allah’s pleasure and Paradise worth to you? What is Allah’s Hell and wrath worth to you? Flee with your religion, for Paradise and Hell are in front of you.”

[Abdul-Mushin ibn Baaz in Rasaail al-Imaam Muhammad ibn Abdil-Wahhaab al-Shakhsiyyah: Diraasah Daawiyyah, vol. 1, pp. 126-127]

✒ Be Gentle With Your Brother

قال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم : يبصر أحدكم القذى في عين أخيه وينسى الجذع في عينه

The Messenger of Allāh Ṣallallāhu-'Alaihi Wa Sallam said: “One of you sees the speck in his brother's eye but forgets the trunk (of tree) in his (own) eye.”

[سلسلة الأحاديث الصحيحة ٣٣، صححه الألباني]

In the last part of surah Aal 'Imran, Allah describes the people of understanding by saying:

[الَّذِينَ يَذْكُرُونَ اللَّهَ قِيَامًا وَقُعُودًا وَعَلَىٰ جُنُوبِهِمْ وَيَتَفَكَّرُونَ فِي خَلْقِ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ رَبَّنَا مَا خَلَقْتَ هَٰذَا بَاطِلًا سُبْحَانَكَ فَقِنَا عَذَابَ النَّارِ]

"Those who remember Allah while standing, sitting, and on their sides, and who reflect of the creation of the heavens and the earth, saying: O our Lord, You did not create all this for nothing! Exalted are You! So protect us from the punishment of the fire!" [191]

In his tafsir, Imam al-Baghawi wrote:

[قال ابن عون : الفكرة تذهب الغفلة وتحدث للقلب الخشية كما يحدث الماء للزرع النبات ]

Ibn 'Awn said: Reflection drives off heedlessness and brings about reverential fear to one's heart in the same way that water brings about growth to a plant.

[Tafsir al-Baghawi 2/152]

Sheikh Ibn Baaz رحمه الله said,

“Celebrating the twenty seventh night of Rajab which many people believed to be the night that the Isra' and the Mi’raj occurred is an innovation. Also performing any specific acts of worship on that night is impermissible.”

[Al Tabdhir min al-Bida, pg. 4]

Shaykh Abdus Salam al-Shuway'ir حفظه الله:

Do not criticise others and pretend that you are complete, as if you are not a sinner or wrongdoer.

Look into your faults before looking at the faults of others. And if you strive in rectifying yourself, Allah will give you success in saying a word which will rectify others.

[شرح الوصية الصغرى]

Shaykh Muqbil Bin Hadi al-Wadi’i (rahimahullah):

Our sins are more harmful upon us than America, and those who govern us.

[Kitab Ghaar al-Ashritah, 2/170, Shaykh Muqbil Bin Hadi al-Wadi’i (rahimahullah)]

فو الله ما من أحد يقبل على الله بصدق وإخلاص،ويعمل بعمل أهل الجنة إلا لم يخذله الله أبداً

Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaimeen:

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!

Source: Sharh al-Arba’een (p. 104)

The scholars say that Usool Dawah has been summarized in a single verse in the Quran:

قُلْ هَـٰذِهِۦ سَبِيلِىٓ أَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ ۚ عَلَىٰ بَصِيرَةٍ أَنَا۠ وَمَنِ ٱتَّبَعَنِى ۖ وَسُبْحَـٰنَ ٱللَّهِ وَمَآ أَنَا۠ مِنَ ٱلْمُشْرِكِينَ

Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “This is my way. I invite to Allah with insight—I and those who follow me. Glory be to Allah, and I am not one of the polytheists.”

Surah Yusuf Ayah 108

The first foundation is that the person calls to the path of the prophet صل الله عليه وسلم which is shown in the ayah:

قُلْ هَـٰذِهِۦ سَبِيلِىٓ

The person must call to the path of the prophet صل الله عليه وسلم without deducting anything from it or adding anything to it. The path of dawah is مرصوم

Meaning it has been ordained and set. No one is allowed to give dawah except with how the prophet صل الله عليه وسلم gave dawah.

The second foundation of dawah is that the person calls to Allah عزوجل as the ayah says:

أَدْعُوٓا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ

Meaning that when the person is giving dawah he should call to Allah and Allah alone with sincerity. Not calling to a certain organization or a certain sheikh or a certain group.


And the third and final foundation of dawah is that the person gives dawah with knowledge, as the ayah shows:

عَلَىٰ بَصِيرَةٍ

Meaning the person calls to the path of the prophet صل الله عليه وسلم and calls to Allah sincerely WITH knowledge. Knowledge is a شرط ( prerequisite ) for everyone who wishes to give dawah in the path of Allah and his messenger صل الله عليه وسلم

The scholars say that any dawah which lacks these three foundations/pillars is a dawah that will cause more harm and destruction than bring good.

And Allah knows best

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

”When night descends, sleep and sleeplessness struggle, of Allāh and longing for Allāh are the soldiers of wakefulness, while idleness and delaying are the soldiers of heedlessness. If determination is adopted, and negligence is defeated, then by the time day breaks, every party will take his share.”

[al-Fawā’id | Pg. 78]

Imam Ibn Battah related that Talhah bin Musarrif said:

“If I were not in a state of Wudu’ then I would have informed you of that which the Raafidah say.”

Look at how despicable & vile the Salaf viewed speech of these individuals. Now you have some who would unite you with them

Translator: Abu Marjaanah

Imām Ibn Qudāmah al-Maqdisee Raḥimahullāh: “And do not accept any Jarḥ Wat Ta'deel (criticism and praise) from the women.”

‎ [كتاب المغني ١٠/٦٢]