وكما لا تصح الصلاة التي هي عبادة الجـوارح الظاهرة إلا بطهارة الظاهر من الحدث والخبث، فكذلك لا يصح العلم الذي هـو عبـادة القلب إلا بطهارته عن خبث الصفات وحدت مساوىء الأخلاق ورديئها .

يطيب القلب للعلم كما تطيب الأرض للزرع، فإذا طيب العلم ظهرت بركته، ونما كما ينمو زرعها، ويزكو إذا طيبت.


(آداب العالم والمتعلم عند المفكرين المسلمين)

‏قال لقمان لابنه :

يا بني ! عَوِّد لسانك : " اللهم اغفر لي " ؛
فإن لله ساعة لا يرد فيها الدعاء .

[ شعب الإيمان 389/2 ]

Luqman [May Allah have mercy on him] said to his son:

"O my son accustom your tongue to saying: "O Allah forgive me."

Certainly Allah has an hour in which He does not reject supplications."

[ Shu'ab Al imaan 2/389 ]

Salaam Ibn Abi Mutai was asked about good manners and he replied in poetry saying:

"You see him smiling when you come to him, as if you are giving him what you are asking him to give you! If he has nothing in his hands save his soul, he will give it. So whoever asks him should show piety. He is just like the sea which you can reach from any direction. Goodness is its waves and generosity is its beach."

(Ad-Dewaan p113 Bi Sharh Tha-labah)

Shaykh al-Albani said:

The reason the believers are afraid that their worship will not be accepted is not because they are afraid Allah will not give them their reward, because this goes against the promise of Allah. Allah said:

"فأما الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات فيوفيهم أجورهم "

"And as for those who believed and did righteous deeds, He will give them in full their rewards."

In fact, He will increase their reward, as He stated:

"فيوفيهم أجورهم ويزيدهم من فضله "

"He will give them in full their rewards and grant them extra from His bounty."

And Allah never breaks His promise, as He tells us in His Book'.

The reason that the believers are afraid their worship will not be accepted is connected to their performing the worship in the manner that Allah has commanded them with. They are afraid they cannot perform the good deeds in the prescribed manner; rather, they view themselves as deficient. This is why they are afraid their worship will not be accepted.


Thus, when the believer ponders upon this, it will increase his diligence in performing the acts of worship with precision in the manner Allah has commanded him with. This is by performing all acts of worship sincerely for Allah, and following the guidance of the Prophet.

This is the meaning of the statement of Allah:

" فمن كان يرجو لقاء ربه فليعمل عملا صالحا ولا يشرك بعبادة ربه أحدا "

"So whoever hopes for the meeting with his Lord, let him work righteousness and associate none as a partner in the worship of his Lord."

[Surah al-Kahf 18:110]

[End of Shaykh al-Albani's speech]

Al-Hasan al-Basri used to say,

"The believer combines good action and fear (that his good actions will not be accepted) while the hypocrite combines evil action and assurance (that his good deeds will be accepted)."

~ treasures from the Qur'an (226-227)

Being with righteous people will divert you from 6 towards 6:

1) From doubt to certainty.
2) From showing off to sincerity.
3) From negligence to remembrance.
4) From desiring the dunya to longing for the ākhirah.
5) From arrogance to humility.
6) From wrong intention to good counsel.

al-Hassan رحمه الله said: “If there comes a time wherein the people make apparent their “knowledge” but they sacrificed acting upon it, when they proclaim love with the tongue but hold hatred in the heart, and they cut off the ties of kinship, Allah’s curse will be upon them … He causes them to be deaf and blinds their insight.”

[الداء والدواء]

"The Qur'an removes all the sicknesses that invoke false desires until the heart becomes pure and therefore its desires become pure and it returns to the natural state (fitrah) that it was created in, just as the body returns to the natural state upon being treated.
The heart will be nurtured with faith and the Qur'an such that it will become strong - for indeed the purification of the heart is like the growing of the body."

( diseases of the heart and their cures, 54 )

أرح مسامعك 🍃

قال الشيخ ابن عثيمين رحمه الله
no matter how much it pleases it’s people, life in this dunyā is one that will pass. either this life will pass, or the person living in it will pass away. in reality, the [true] life is the one that is lived in the ākhirah.

- التعليق على مقدمة المجموع ص ١٢٩

Subhanallah a brother took my recital of these lines and made this beautiful video. Some have informed me that he is a student in Madina University and was recently in a serious car accident. He is on life support based on what was conveyed to me. May Allah have mercy on him and grant him firdous.

قيل لبعض الحكماء: أي شيء أشبه بالدنيا؟ قال: أحلام النائم.

ذكرت الدنيا عند الحسن البصري، فقال: أحلام نوم أو كظل زائل ... إن اللبيب بمثلها لا يخدع.



it was said to some of the wise men : what is the likeness of the dunya?
he said : dreams of the sleeper

the dunya was mentioned in the presence of hasan al basari and he said : dreams during the sleep or fleeting shadow... and the wise do not get deceived of its like.

{ص٢٢ ، ذم الدنيا لابن ابي الدنيا}

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgaTRTylCbZB3UWNdEaZrsWOcaOWyjmUc


Explanation of kitāb at tawhēd by Shaykh Yahya Uthmaan Al Mudarris رحمه الله

Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said:

“You should know that the beauty of a person’s Islām lies in his leaving those things that do not concern him.

When Allāh wills evil for a person, He puts him through the test of argumentation – when Allāh wills good for a person, He inspires him to do good deeds.

If Allāh takes away your tongue and gives back to you your heart, He has been extremely kind to you; but if He takes away from you your heart and gives you back your tongue, then know that you are in a serious calamity.”

[المتشابهات في القرآن صحفة ١١]

ways to attain zuhd

1: become moderate in spending

2: spend any spare time in devotion to Allāh

3: relieve any emotional anxiety

4: adorn yourself with the manners and character of the prophets of Allāh and the truthful ones

explanations

1: being moderate in spending means to spend only on what you will be in need of. this doesn’t mean to refrain from the essentials such as: nourishment for his body, clothing, his abode, marriage and the likes.

if you become so busy in the worldly activities accumulating wealth with all of your time, much of your time will be wasted and he will barely make time for devotion to his Lord and Sustainer. the slave should take advantage of any time he has and devote himself to his Lord. as it is said, time is like a sword; if you do not cut it will cut you (meaning, if you do not take control of it, it will take control of you, by cutting you).

2: you must spend your time in devotion; using all of your time to get closer and closer to your Lord. this means through your nourishment (your food, his drink and his world possessions), marriage, sleep, or through resting, you bring yourself closer to his Lord, but with the condition that you make your intention to do these things for your Lord’s sake, hoping to be rewarded for doing them and refraining from doing the things that invoke His (Allāh’s) anger upon His slaves.

3: you must relieve yourself from emotional anxiety. you try to prevent those things that will cause distress and agitation in your heart due to the affairs of this life, be it hope, love, fear, hatred, or his labouring. you will not taste the sweetness of zuhd unless you relieve yourself from anxiety and distress of the heart. hence, the slave’s heart should not be troubling him, and indeed zuhd relieves the slave’s heart from this.

4: you must adorn yourself with the mannerisms of the prophets and the truthful ones. you should try to adorn yourself with the way of the best of Allāh’s creation, the prophets, because from amongst all of the people they knew best how to live a life of zuhd in this dunyā.

- kitāb az-zuhd l’ibn al qayyim al jawzīyah

the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم said:

"By Allah, I am not afraid that you will become poor, but I am afraid that worldly wealth will be given to you in abundance as it was given to those nations before, and you will start competing with each other for it as the previous nations competed for it, and then will divert you as it diverted them."

(sahih bhukhari 6425)

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al-shuwaʿyir said, "some of the salaf made it a point not to allow a single prayer pass them by without supplicating, ‘our lord, give us joy in our spouses and offspring, and make us leaders for the people of taqwá.’"

(rabbannā hab lanā min ʾazwājinā wa ḏh̲urriyyātinā qurrata ʾaʿyyunin wajʿal-lanā lil-muttaqīna ʾimāmā)

al-manhajiyyah fī ṭalab al-ʿilm, p. 6

Abdullah ibn Amr reported: We said, "O Messenger of Allah, who are the best of people?" He صلى الله عليه وسلم replied: "Everyone who is pure of heart and sincere in speech." When they asked him what is meant by a "pure heart" he said: "It is [the heart] that is pious and pure, with no sin, injustice, rancour or envy in it." 🤍

Imām Ash Shāfi’i was asked: What is the greatest act through which a slave gets closer to Allah?

The Imām (may Allah have mercy on him) cried, and then said: It is for Allah to look at your heart and see that you do not want anything from this world or the hereafter except for Him سبحانه