Forwarded from Q&A & Benefits - Ustadh Saeed Hassan
Shaykh Al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (رحمه الله) said:
“One who enjoins good must have three qualities:
1 - Knowledge,
2 - Gentleness, and
3 - Patience.
Knowledge comes before it, gentleness comes during it, and patience comes after it.”
Reference: Al-Amr bil Ma’rūf li-Ibn Taymīyyah 1/20
“One who enjoins good must have three qualities:
1 - Knowledge,
2 - Gentleness, and
3 - Patience.
Knowledge comes before it, gentleness comes during it, and patience comes after it.”
Reference: Al-Amr bil Ma’rūf li-Ibn Taymīyyah 1/20
Allāh's Messenger ﷺ said:
"A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and will be cast into Hell: his intestines will pour forth and he will go round them as a donkey goes round a millstone."
The inmates of Hell will gather round him and say: "What has happened to you, O so-and-so? Were you not enjoining us to do good and forbidding us to evil?"
He will reply: "I was enjoying you to do good, but was not doing it myself; and I was forbidding you to do evil, but was doing it my self."
● (صحيح مسلم ٢٩٨٩)
"A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and will be cast into Hell: his intestines will pour forth and he will go round them as a donkey goes round a millstone."
The inmates of Hell will gather round him and say: "What has happened to you, O so-and-so? Were you not enjoining us to do good and forbidding us to evil?"
He will reply: "I was enjoying you to do good, but was not doing it myself; and I was forbidding you to do evil, but was doing it my self."
● (صحيح مسلم ٢٩٨٩)
Jaf'ar al-Sadiq said: "Be a conveyor of Islaam, an enjoiner of the good, a forbidder of evil, and generous to the one who seeks assistance."
● {سير أعلام النبلاء حجم ٦، صحفة ٢٦٣}
● {سير أعلام النبلاء حجم ٦، صحفة ٢٦٣}
وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌۭ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمُنكَرِ ۚ وَأُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ
And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful. • [3:104]
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn 'Al al-Laṭīf āl ash-Shaykh رحمه الله said: "Knowing that enjoining good and forbidding evil does not cut off provisions nor does it bring an appointed term (i.e. death) closer.
Rather, it may lengthen an appointed term and increase provisions for, indeed, blessings come about, calamities are repelled and illness and disease are taken away by way of it.
So, fulfil your duty [and] your blessing will be completed and you will be kings in Jannah.
● [الدرر السنية ٣١٣/١٤]
And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful. • [3:104]
Shaykh Muḥammad ibn 'Al al-Laṭīf āl ash-Shaykh رحمه الله said: "Knowing that enjoining good and forbidding evil does not cut off provisions nor does it bring an appointed term (i.e. death) closer.
Rather, it may lengthen an appointed term and increase provisions for, indeed, blessings come about, calamities are repelled and illness and disease are taken away by way of it.
So, fulfil your duty [and] your blessing will be completed and you will be kings in Jannah.
● [الدرر السنية ٣١٣/١٤]
اللَّهُمَّ بَاعِدْ بَيْنِي وَبَيْنَ خَطَايَايَ كَمَا بَاعَدْتَ بَيْنَ الْمَشْرِقِ وَالْمَغْرِبِ
“O’ Allah, separate me from my sins the way you have separated the East and the West.”
● [البخاري ١\١٨١، صحيح مسلم ١\٤١٩]
“O’ Allah, separate me from my sins the way you have separated the East and the West.”
● [البخاري ١\١٨١، صحيح مسلم ١\٤١٩]
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Eesa Ibn Maryam (alayhis salam) said:
Leave the people alone (do not be curious or interfere in their private matters)!
And let them be at rest (freed) from you!
And keep yourself busy (with what benefits your aakhirah)!
Leave them, and do not seek their praise and do not earn their reproaches (their dislike, disrespect of you).
And focus on what you have been entrusted with (meaning this Deen, or minding one’s own business, or what concerns you alone).
[az-Zuhd of Imam Ahmad (rahimahullah), 469]❤5
Sh. Muqbil Raḥimahullāh: “It is due to this Ummah being lax in enjoining good and forbidding evil that Allāh has empowered it’s enemy over them and has placed fear amongst them just like it can be witnessed (today), Innā Lillāhi Wa Innā Ilaihi Rāji'ūn.”
● [كتاب غارة الأشرطة ص ٥١]
● [كتاب غارة الأشرطة ص ٥١]
Shaykh ibn ‘Uthaymeen, [may Allāh have mercy on him], said:
“When your heart grows heedless and your soul engulfs in worldly matters, visit the graves. Reflect on those who, just yesterday, like you, walked the same earth as you do now.”
Riyādh us-Sāliheen, 3/473 | Shaykh ibn ‘Uthaymeen [may Allāh have mercy on him].
Translation: Authentic Quotes
“When your heart grows heedless and your soul engulfs in worldly matters, visit the graves. Reflect on those who, just yesterday, like you, walked the same earth as you do now.”
Riyādh us-Sāliheen, 3/473 | Shaykh ibn ‘Uthaymeen [may Allāh have mercy on him].
Translation: Authentic Quotes
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