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

📌حكم قول (اللهم بلغنا رمضان لا فاقدين ولا مفقودين )⛔
⚠ عـبارة مـنتشرة بـين الناس فيـجب التنبيه عـليها .

📍الــســـــؤال :
مـا حكم قـول :«اللـهم بلّـغنا رمـضان لافاقـدين وﻻ مفقـودين »

📍الجـــــواب :
إن كان القصـد بـقاء العـمر لصـيام رمضـان بأكمـله فـالأولى أن يـدعو بـ « اللهـم سـلّمنا لرمـضان وسـلّم رمـضان لـنا وتـسلّمه مـنا مـتقبلًا يـا رب العالمـين »

وعـبارة ﻻفاقـدين ولا مـفقودين
لا تجـوز لأن فـيها تعـدّي عـلى حـكم الله والمـوت حـق علـى العـباد

وهـي عـبارة مـا سمـعنا بـها عـند السـلف وﻻ فـي الأثـر وكـأن الإنسـان يرفـض أن يمـوت أو يـموت أحـد يُـحبّه!!

*للشيخ الـعلامة: محـمد بن صـالح العثـيمين -رَحِمَهُ اللهُ تَعَالَى-

📕 [مجـموع الفـتاوى (20)]

عن النبي صلى الله عليه وسلم قال‏:‏ ‏

"‏ رغم أنف، ثم رغم أنف، ثم رغم أنف من أدرك أبويه عند الكبر، أحدهما أو كليهما، فلم يدخل الجنة."‏

[رواه مسلم]
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The Prophet ﷺ said:

“May he be disgraced! May he be disgraced! May he be disgraced, whose parents, one or both, attain old age during his life time, and he does not enter Jannah (by rendering being dutiful to them).”

[Muslim]

One of the Salaf stated:

لا تجدُ أحدًا عاقًا لوالديه إلا وجدته جبّارًا شقيا.
‎"You will not find anyone who is undutiful to his parents except that he is an arrogant, wretched person."

ثم قرأ: {وَبَرًّۢا بِوَٰلِدَتِى وَلَمْ يَجْعَلْنِى جَبَّارًا شَقِيًّا}
‎Then he recited: {He made me dutiful to my mother and He didn't make me to be an arrogant, wretched person.}

‎[تفسير ابن كثير ٥/٢٢٩]

عن الحارث بن قيس قال: إذا أتاك الشيطان وأنت تصلي،
Al-Hāreth bin Qays said, “If the Shaytān comes to you while you are praying

فقال: إنَّك ترائي،
and says, ‘You are showing off’,

فزدها طولاً.
then make your prayer longer."

[تلبيس إبليس ٧٠]

فضيلة الشيخ: ما هي أسباب قسوة القلب ؟

الجواب:

قسوة القلب أسبابها كثيرة، منها: الإعراض عن ذكر الله، وكون الإنسان لا يذكر الله إلا قليلاً، تجده حتى في الصلاة المفروضة لا يذكر الله بقلبه، يقرأ، ويركع، ويسجد، ويسبح، ويدعو والقلب غافل، هذه من أسباب القسوة. من أسباب قسوة القلب أيضاً: كثرة المزاح واللعب والتلهي بالأصدقاء والأهل، ولهذا قال بعض الصحابة للنبي عليه الصلاة والسلام: «إننا إذا كنا عندك فإننا نخشع حتى كأننا نشاهد الجنة والنار، وإذا ذهبنا فعافسنا الأهل والأولاد نسينا، قال: ساعة وساعة» .
ومن أسباب قسوة القلب أيضاً: الانكباب على الدنيا وتفضيلها على الآخرة، وألا يكون هم الإنسان إلا جمع المال، ولها أسباب كثيرة. فلهذا ينبغي للإنسان إذا رأى من قلبه قسوة أن يبادر بالعلاج، قبل أن يتحجر ويعجز عن علاجه.

Sheikh ibn uthaymeen رحمه الله was asked about the causes of the hardness of the heart and he answered:

the causes of the hardness of the heart are many , from amongst them are :

turning away from the rememberance of Allah, that a person doesn't remember Allah much, and you find him not remembering Allah in his heart in the obligatory prayers, he recites, bows, prostrates, glorifies and invokes but his heart is negligent, this is from the ways of hardness.

and also from the causes are :
abundance of jesting ,playing and passing time with the friends and family, and this is why the companions used to say to the prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم :

"when we are in your company, we fear and be witness over the Hell-Fire and Paradise but when we we go away and attend to our wives, our children, our business; most of these things (pertaining to After-life) slip out of our minds, to which the prophet replied 'time should be devoted (to the worldly affairs) and time should be devoted (to prayer)'"

and from the causes of hardness of the heart are :
devotion to the world and preferring it over the afterlife and verily they are those men who gather wealth and for it are numerous ways, and for this , it is upon the man when he finds his heart being hardnened , he initiates to treat it before it solidifies and be incapable of being treated.

الشيخ ابن عثيمين من لقاءات الباب المفتوح، لقاء رقم(76)

Ibn al-Jawzī رحمه الله said: “The intelligent person is one who minds the duty necessitated by every moment of his life, so that if death strikes, he already knows that he is prepared and ready. If he lives longer than what was ex­pected, he will be able to increase the balance of his good deeds.”

🖋 book: Captured Thoughts by Ibn al-Jawzī رحمه الله pg. 80

Imam Nawawī رحمه الله said in Clarifying the Manners of Carrying the Qur’an, in the chapter “The Preferred Time to Recite”. “Know that the best time for recitation is recitation within the prayer. As for recitation outside of the prayer, then the best recitation is during the night, and the last part of the night is better than the first part of the night.” (page 75)

📗book: Advice Regarding The Book of Allah By the Noble Scholar Shaykh Hafidh al-Hakami | Explained by Shaykh Abdur Razzaq al-Badr pg. 17

shaykh sulaymān al-ruḥaylī ‏حفظه الله said:

a believer does not prepare for the month of ramaḍān with anything greater than fasting more in shaʿbān, reading more qurʾān in it, having taqwā of Allāh, repenting sincerely from sins, reducing in unnecessary speech, getting the soul used to abandoning distractions and entertainment such as social media, sincere determination in benefitting from the month of goodness and reminding oneself of the speed of his departure [from this world].

- shaykh’s twitter

You'll Die Between Two Good Deeds...

Muʿādh b. Jabal رضي الله عنه advised his son:

يا بني إذا صليت فصلّ صلاة مودّع لا تظن أنك تعود إليها أبداً، واعلم يا بني أن المؤمن يموت بين حسنتين، حسنة قدمها وحسنة أخرها

"My son! Pray the prayer of he who is just about to leave, and realise that you might not be able to pray ever again. And know, my son, that the believer dies between two good deeds; one that he performed, and one that he intended to perform later on."

[Ṣifat al-Ṣafwa, 1/188]

The True Test Is When You Have The Desire Aswell As The Ability

Ibn al-Jawzī رحمه الله said:

"Do you know what a man is? A true man is he who finds himself alone with sins, and has the power to commit them and his lusts urges him to quench its thirst, but he thinks about Allāh looking at him, so he feels embarrassed from angering Him and thus his desire goes away.

But it seems that you only abandon things that you do not have desire for, or things that are not desirable in the first place, or even things that you are unable to have! This is your habit!"

[Captured Thoughts, p. 352]

Shaykh Muhammad bin Sālih al-'Uthaymīn رحمه الله stated:

إذا طالت أحزانك
‎"Whenever your sadness has lasted (with you) for a long time,

فعليك بالصبر والصلاة 💗
it is upon you to be patient and make prayer (as a means to remove your sadness)."

[تفسير القرآن الكريم ١٦٥/١]

Jābir b. ʿAbd Allah said, "The Prophet ʿalayhi al-salam went out to his companions and recited Sūrah al-Raḥmān to them from start to finish; they kept silent. The Prophet then said, ‘I had recited it to the jinn the night they met with me, and they had a better response than yours. Every time I recited His statement, ‘Which of His blessings will you both then deny?’ They would say, ‘Not a single blessing of yours, our Lord, can we deny; to You alone belongs all praise.’"

Al-Tirmiḏẖī no. 3291

sūrah al-ḥashr [āyāt 18-21]
reciter: unknown (حفظه الله)

Shaykh ul-Islām ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullah) said:

I have not seen anything which … guarantees happiness, more than constantly looking through the Book of Allah (the Quran).

[Majmū al-Fatāwa Ibn Taymiyyah (rahimahullāh), 7/493]

We used to count from the greatest of sins: that a man would learn the Quran and then go to sleep not having recited anything from it.

[Abul-‘Āliyah (rahimahullāh), az-Zuhd of Imām Ahmad (rahimahullāh), 303]

Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (rahimahullah) wrote:

Sha’baan is like a precursor to Ramadan.

The things which are legislated in Ramadan – such as fasting and reciting the Qur’an – are also legislated in Sha’baan so that one can be prepared to meet Ramadan and accustom himself to obeying Ar-Rahman.

[Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali (rahimahullah), Book on the Months and Seasons of the Islamic Calendar]

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▫️عَن طَلحَةَ بن عُبيدِ اللّٰه رَضِيَ اللهُ عنهُ أَنَّ النَّبِي ﷺ كانَ إِذا رَأى الهِلالَ قَالَ :

« اللَّهُمَّ أَهِلَّهُ علَينَا بِالأَمنِ والإِيمَانِ, وَالسَّلامَةِ والإِسلامِ, رَبِّي ورَبُّكَ الله, هِلالُ رُشدٍ وخَير » [رواهُ الترمذيّ, وقال: حديثٌ حسنٌ].

مُبارك عليكُم شّهر رمضَان سائلين المَولى عَزَّ وَجل أن يتقبَّل مِنّا وَمنكُم صَالِحَ الأعمال, وأن يُمكِّن للأمَّة الإسلامية خَير تمكين.