اقْتُلُوا يُوسُفَ أَوِ اطْرَحُوهُ أَرْضًا يَخْلُ لَكُمْ وَجْهُ أَبِيكُمْ وَتَكُونُوا مِن بَعْدِهِ قَوْمًا صَالِحِينَ

Kill Yusuf or cast him out to some other land, so that the favor of your father may be given to you alone, and after that you can become a righteous people. [12:9]

In his commentary on this ayah, Imam al-Baghawi wrote:

 وقال محمد بن إسحاق : اشتمل فعلهم على جرائم من قطع الرحم ، وعقوق الوالدين ، وقلة الرأفة بالصغير الذي لا ذنب له ، والغدر بالأمانة ، وترك العهد ، والكذب مع أبيهم . وعفا الله عنهم ذلك كله حتى لا ييئس أحد من رحمة الله . ـ

Muhammad ibn Ishaaq said, “What they did involved many sins including the cutting of blood ties, poor treatment of parents, lack of compassion towards a child who had done nothing wrong, making false promises to achieve their own aims, breaking their promises, and lying to their parents. But Allah pardoned them for all of that so that no one could lose hope of Allah’s mercy.”

[Tafsir al-Baghawi 4/219]

On the authority of al-Hasan in a narration: ❝May Allaah have mercy upon the slave who speaks and benefits or remains silent and is saved.❞

● [سلسلة الأحاديث الصحيحة ٨٥٥]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“If you are studying the deen and not realising your own ignorance then your ilm is not benefittng you. If it is only increasing you in arrogance then your intention is not sincere. Re-evaluate and start again.

I have discovered from my own experience that whenever someone increases in knowledge, they discover how much greater their ignorance is.”

[The Souls Journey After Death | Pg. 37]

Whoever wants the aid Of Allāh:

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

“Shaykh ul-Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah would search a lot to find people to help them with their needs. This was because he knew that everytime he helped someone then Allāh would aid him.”

[Rawdat al-Muhibbeen | 1/168]

Some of the Salaf رحمهم الله said: “Whoever jokes a lot, his dignity is eaten like the fire eats the wood.”
‎
‎● [أدب الدنيا والدين صفحة ٣١٠]

A believer can never trust a kaafir no matter how much friendship and sincerity he shows.

● {Majmoo’ Fataawa al-Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (v. 3, p. 31-46)}

Wealth.

Imaam ash-Shaafi’ee:

‎رأيت القناعة رأس الغنى
I saw that being content was the essence of wealth.


‎فصرت غنيا بلا درهـم
I became rich without a Dirḥām.


‎أمر على الناس شبه الملك
I now walk like a king among men.

‎● [ديوان الإمام الشافعي]

Sh. al-Albānī رحمه الله: “Is not the one who collects books of knowledge like the one who collects GOLD and SILVER?”

‎● [إقتضاء العلم العمل]

How many of us sit like this - especially during Jumu’ah?!

وعن الشريد بن سويد رضي الله عنه قال مر بي رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم وأنا جالس وقد وضعت يدي اليسرى خلف ظهري واتكأت على ألية يدي فقال رسول الله صلى الله عليه وسلم لا تقعد قعدة المغضوب عليهم

رواه أبو داود وابن حبان في صحيحه وزاد قال ابن جريج وضع راحتيك على الأرض {وراء ظهره}

ash-Sharīd b. Suwaid رضي الله عنه reported: The Messenger of Allāh ﷺ passed by me when I was sitting with my left hand behind my back and leaning on my palm.

On seeing me in this posture he said, “Do you sit like those upon whom the Wrath of Allāh has descended?”

● [صحيح الترغيب والترهيب ٣٠٦٦]

Ibn Taymiyyah said: "The reality of eemaan does not enter a heart that has impurities of pride and jealousy."

‎● {ابن تيمية فتاوي ١٣:٢١٢}

‘Abdullah b. Mas’ūd said: "A woman never worships Allaah in the way she does when she worships Him in her house."

● {Sahīh at-Targhīb of Sh. Albānī (vol. 1, pg. 84)}

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله:

"Friday prayer is one of the most important obligations in Islam, and one of the greatest gatherings of the Muslims. Gathering on Friday is more important and more obligatory than any other gathering apart from ‘Arafah. Whoever neglects it, Allāh will place a seal on his heart."

[Zaad Al-Ma’aad | Book 3, Pg. 31-32]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said:

"Indeed a servant will come on the Day of Judgement with good deeds to the extent of mountains, however he then finds that his TONGUE destroyed all of them."

‎[الداء والدواء للإمام ابن قيم الجوزية صحفة ٣٥٧]

Ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله listed a few consequences of sinning/disobeying Allāh:

• Lack of success
• Corrupt views
• Blindness from truth
• Corruption of the heart
• Failing to remember Allāh
• Wasting of time
• Avoidance and hate by the creation
• Separation between the servant and his Lord
• Supplication not being answered
• Hardness of the heart
• Decaying of blessing in provision and age
• Prevention from attaining knowledge
• Humiliation
• Insults from the enemies
• Constriction of the chest
• Affliction with evil friendship, those who corrupt the heart and make one waste the time
• Prolonging of sadness and grief
• Miserable life
• and Disappointment

All this results from sinning and and neglecting to remember Allāh, just as crops are grown by being watered and are consumed by fire.

[كتاب الفوائد للإمام ابن القيم صفحة ٦٢]