{ولا تَتَّبِعُوا خُطُواتِ الشَّيْطانِ}

"and do not follow the footsteps of Satan"

Qatādah رحمه الله said regarding this āyah:

“Every disobedience to Allāh is from the footsteps of Shaytān!”

[Tafsīr Ibn Abī Hātim: 1508]

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Al-Mu'allā ibn Ziyād, said:

A man said to Al-Hasan: “O Abu Saeed, I complain to you about the hardness of my heart!”

He said: “Melt it with the remembrance [of Allah]!”

[Al-Wābil As-Sayyib: 146]

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‘Abdullah bin Mas’ūd رضي الله عنه said:

“Preserve your children through salāh and teach them goodness, for goodness is [attained] through habits!”

[Al-Mu’jam Al-Kabir 9155]

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Mālik ibn Dīnār رحمه الله said:

The pious would admonish one another with three [things]:

1) The imprisonment of the tongue,
2) Seeking forgiveness frequently,
3) Seclusion.

[Sifatu As-Safwa: 3/193]

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‘Urwa ibn Az-Zubayr رضي الله عنه said:

“The trustworthiness of a servant never decreases except due to a decrease in his Īmān!”

[Shu’ab Al-Īmān: 1/78]

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At-Tahhāk رحمه الله said:

“Music corrupts the heart and angers the Lord!”

[Rūh Al-Ma’ānī: 21/68]

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‘Umar ibn Al-Khattāb رضي الله عنه said:

“Upon you is the remembrance of Allāh for verily it is a cure! And beware of the remembrance of the people for verily it is a sickness!”

[Az-Zuhd Li Imām Ahmad: 644]

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Imām Mālik رحمه الله said:

“If you’re able to take the Qur’ān as an Imām, then do so! For verily it guides to Al-Jannah!”

[Al-Jāmi’ Li Ibn Abī Zayd: 165]

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Shujā’ ibn Al-Walīd رحمه الله said:

“I went to [perform] Hajj with Sufyan, and his tongue hardly stopped enjoining good and forbidding evil, going and coming back.”

[Siyar A'lam al-Nubala: 7/259]

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Sufyān al-Thawrī رحمه الله said:

“Nothing breaks the back of Iblīs more than saying: Lā ilāha illā-Allāh!”

[Siyar A'lām al-Nubalā, 7/260]

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Al-Barbahārī رحمه الله said:

“If you see a man sitting with one of the people of innovation, warn and inform him. If he sits with him after he has known then beware of him, for verily he is a person of desires!”

[Sharh as-Sunnah: point 134]

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Ibn Mas’ūd رضي الله عنه said:

“Verily Allāh did not make your cure in what He made Harām for you!”

[Musannaf Ibn Abī Shaybah: 8/96]

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Yahyā ibn Mu’ādh رحمه الله used to say in his supplications:

“O Allāh! Grant me what I want! If you do not give me what I want, [then] grant me patience for what you want!”

[Hilyatul Awliyā: 10/66]

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Abu Ishāq Al-Fazārī رحمه الله said:

“Verily from the people are those who love to be praised yet they are not worth a wing of a mosquito in the sight of Allāh!”

[Hilyat Al-Awliya: 8/255]

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Ibn Mas’ūd رضي الله عنه said:

“Whoever is given good, then it is Allāh who has given it to him! And whoever is protected from evil, it is Allāh who has protected him!”

[Az-Zuhd Li Abī Dāwūd: 159]

{ وَمَا بِكُمْ مِنْ نِعْمَةٍ فَمِنَ اللَّهِ ثُمَّ إِذَا مَسَّكُمُ الضُّرُّ فَإِلَيْهِ تَجْأَرُونَ }

(And whatever you have of favor - it is from Allāh)

[An-Nahl: 53]

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Sa’eed ibn Musayyib رحمه الله said:

“I have never missed the congregational prayers for forty years!”

[Siyar A'lam al-Nubala: 4/221]

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Ka'b ibn Mālik رضي الله عنه said:

“The most beloved things to Allāh is prayer and [His] remembrance! Do you not see that He has ordered them to do so even during Jihād?”

[Tafsir Ibn Abi Hatim: 5/1711]

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Hārith ibn Asad رحمه الله said:

“The misfortune of the servant is the heart being void of the remembrance of the hereafter; this is when heedlessness occurs in the heart!”

[Dhammul Hawā: 1/65]

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‘Umar ibn Al-Khattāb رضي الله عنه said:

“Verily there is relief in secluding oneself from evil companions!”

[Az-Zuhd Li Wakī’: 244]

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Yahyā ibn Mu’ādh رحمه الله said:

“If you are not pleased with [the Qadr of] Allāh, then how can you ask for His pleasure?!”

[Sifatu As-Safwa: 4/341]

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Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah رحمه الله said:

“What a servant dislikes is better for him than what he likes! For verily that which he dislikes motivates him to make duā, and what he likes distracts him from it!”

[Mawsū’ah Ibn Abī Dunyā: 2/97]

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