Recordings from last weekend’s seminar. ⬆️

🔗 Healing Our Hearts in Ramadan 1: The Meaning of Taqwa & The Immense Benefits of Leaving Off Sin

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/live/OQo5V26-qnU?feature=shared

🔗 Healing Our Hearts in Ramadan 2: Gratitude, Solidarity, & Patience

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/live/sW9l_4NlwJ4?feature=shared

🔗Healing Our Hearts in Ramadan 3: Resiliency, Forbearance, Du’ā, & How to Weigh Ourselves with the Qur’ān.

🎥 https://www.youtube.com/live/BCjcZvrky_w?feature=shared

🌟[Learn Islām Thoroughly & Shun Fame: The Scholarly Way]

Some of the Salaf reported:

«كَانَ يُقَالُ: الْعُلَمَاءُ إِذَا عَلِمُوا عَمِلُوا، فَإِنْ عَمِلُوا شُغِلُوا، فَإِذَا شُغِلُوا فُقِدُوا، فَإِذَا فُقِدُوا طُلِبُوا، وَإِذَا طُلِبُوا هَرَبُوا.»

"It used to be said: When learned people acquire knowledge, they act upon it;when they act upon it, they become occupied; when they become occupied, they are no longer seen; when they are no longer seen, they are sought out; and when they are sought out, they flee."

[See: al-Majālisah wa Jawāhir al-ʿIlm by Abū Bakr al-Dīnawarī (vol. 2, p. 231), ʿUyūn al-Akhbār by Ibn Qutaybah (vol. 2, p. 141), and Ḥilyat al-Awliyāʾ by Abū Nuʿaym (vol. 5, p. 235)]

Day four ⏬

Day 4

These recordings are from last year.

تهذيب السيرة (مكتمل)
https://archive.org/details/arafatbinhassan-Tahzib_Sirah

🆕 The Ideal Way to Supplicate & Pray in the Last Ten -- Ibn Rajab & Ibn 'Uthaymīn (رحمهما الله) [mobile friendly, fully vowelled Arabic text with English translation]. Edited

Repost of an article from two years ago about the best way to make dua in Ramadan.

‎⭐️[[Between Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ
‎An Underappreciated Time of Blessing]]

‎Many scholars mention the early Muslims' habit of praying between Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ, linking it to the description of the believers (Qur'an 32:16)—"Their sides forsake their beds, calling upon their Lord in fear and hope."

‎•Ḥudhayfah (رضي الله عنه) says he prayed Maghrib with the Prophet ﷺ, and the Prophet ﷺ continued praying until ʿIshāʾ, showing the virtue of reviving this interval with ṣalāh.¹

‎•al-Shawkānī concludes the reports about the topic establish the legitimacy of increasing prayer between Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ; even if many of the individual reports are weak, their combined weight supports the legitimately established practice, especially in faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl.²

‎•al-ʿIrāqī (as cited by al-Shawkānī) notes that many Ṣaḥābah and Tābiʿīn regularly prayed then—among them Ibn Masʿūd, Ibn ʿUmar, Salmān, and numerous later exemplars—followed by imams such as Sufyān al-Thawrī.²

‎•In the Ḥanbalī school, the night legally begins at Maghrib and continues until true dawn (al-fajr al-thānī); therefore, prayer after Maghrib (including between Maghrib and ʿIshāʾ) falls under “qiyām al-layl” in the broad juristic sense.³

‎Keep it flexible—pray whatever you can (no fixed number), aiming simply to fill the space with ṣalāh and goodness. This brief window between the two night prayers holds a missed opportunity for reward. It represents what the scholars call "easy gain"—a short period of worship that yields immense benefit.

‎For someone who cannot carry long night prayer or struggles to wake before Fajr, this window becomes a precious opportunity.

‎Ways to Fill This Time
‎•Voluntary prayer
‎•Qur'an recitation
‎•Dhikr and tasbīḥ
‎•Personal duʿāʾ
‎•Seeking knowledge

‎📚Sources:

‎¹

Muḥammad Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Albānī, Ṣaḥīḥ al-Targhīb wa-l-Tarhīb, 1:382 (Riyadh: Maktabat al-Maʿārif li-l-Nashr wa-l-Tawzīʿ, 1st ed., 1421/2000), from Ḥudhayfah رضي الله عنه.
‎² Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-Shawkānī, Nayl al-Awṭār, citing al-ʿIrāqī on the cumulative strength of the reports and listing the Salaf known for this practice.
‎³ Manṣūr ibn Yūnus al-Buhūtī, Kashshāf al-Qināʿ ʿan Matn al-Iqnāʿ, vol. 1, p. 530; Muṣṭafā ibn Saʿd al-Ruḥaybānī, Maṭālib Ūlī al-Nuhā fī Sharḥ Ghāyat al-Muntahā, vol. 1, p. 567; ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ḍiyāʾ al-Dīn Ibn Ḍuwayyān, Manār al-Sabīl fī Sharḥ al-Dalīl, vol. 1, p. 113

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Today’s reading (Day 19) وفق الله الجميع

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