a summary of general tips to staying away from doubts and misconceptions by Ustadh Muhammad Tim Humble حفظه الله

إن وجدت من بين أصحابك صديقٍ يدلّك على الله، وينير أفقك، ويوسّع مداركك، ويسحبك من مواطن الخطأ إلى السلامةِ، ويقوّمك عند تعثّرك فتمسّك به! فتلكمُ الصُّحبة، تلكمُ الصُّحبة

virtuous deeds you could do this Friday

giving charity
- ‘ giving charity on a Friday compared to the rest of the days, I’d like giving charity in ramadan compared to the rest of the months’ ibn al qayyim


Salawat
- The Prophet (ﷺ) said: Among the most excellent of your days is Friday; on it Adam was created, on it he died, on it the last trumpet will be blown, and on it the shout will be made, so invoke more blessings on me that day, for your blessings will be submitted to me. The people asked: Messenger of Allah, how can it be that our blessings will be submitted to you while your body is decayed? He replied: Allah, the Exalted, has prohibited the earth from consuming the bodies of Prophets.
Sunan Abī Dāwūd 1047

making dua
- The Messenger of Allah ﷺ mentioned Friday and said: “On this day there is a time when no Muslim stands and prays, asking Allah for something, but Allah will grant him it” and he gestured with his hands to indicate how short that time is.
al-Bukhari, 893; Muslim, 852



* the second and more correct view according to the scholars is that this time is after asr and before maghrib because of the hadith of the prophet ﷺ when he was asked what time it is and he said after asr. *

reminder: the deeds you strive to do on fridays you should also do every day. it is wrong for us to specify making dua last hour of asr and neglect making dua in general every other day of the week. in your dua, ask Allah to make you firm and steadfast in worshipping Him, and one of the best duas you could say towards that are:

اللهم يا مقلب القلوب ثبت قلبي على دينك
O turner of the hearts, keep my heart firm on your religion

and
اللهم أعنِّي على ذكرك وشكرك وحسن عبادتك
O Allah aid me in remembering you, being grateful to you; and worshipping you in excellent manner.

مِن شَرِّ ٱلْوَسْوَاسِ ٱلْخَنَّاسِ

ما خطوات الشيطان في وسوسته لبني آدم؟

وسوسة الشيطان في صدر الإنسان بأنواع كثيرة، منها: إفساد الإيمان والتشكيك في العقائد، فإن لم يقدر على ذلك أمره بالمعاصي، فإن لم يقدر على ذلك ثبَّطه عن الطاعات، فإن لم يقدر على ذلك أدخل عليه الرياء في الطاعات ليحبطها، فإن سلم من ذلك أدخل عليه العُجْب بنفسه واستكثار عمله، ومن ذلك أنه يوقد في القلب نار الحسد والحقد والغضب حتى يقود الإنسان
إلى شر الأعمال وأقبح الأحوال.

ابن جزي: ٢ / ٦٣.

I entered the room of the Messenger of Allah ʿalayhi al-salam while he was laying on his side over a mat. He drew up his lower garment as I sat down. He was not wearing anything else. The mat had left visible marks on his body. I looked at his cupboard and noticed a handful of barley, some mimosa leaves in the corner of the room, and a leather bag hung to the side.

My eyes began to swell with tears. The Prophet asked, "Why do you weep, Ibn al-Khaṭṭab?" I said, "Prophet of Allah, why should I not cry when this mat has left marks on your side, and the supply in your cupboard is scarce? Caesar and Khosrow are surrounded by rivers and fruits in abundance, while you, the Messenger of Allah and His chosen one, sits with this cupboard." The Prophet ʿalayhi al-salam said, "Ibn al-Khaṭṭab, are you not pleased that the Hereafter is ours and the world is theirs?"

— ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭab, Muslim no. 1479

﴿ قُلْ يَا عِبَادِيَ الَّذِينَ أَسْرَفُوا عَلَى أَنفُسِهِمْ لاتَقْنَطُوا مِن رَّحْمَةِ اللَّهِ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا ﴾

Say, ˹O Prophet, that Allah says,˺ “O My servants who have exceeded the limits against their souls! Do not lose hope in Allah’s mercy, for Allah certainly forgives all sins.1 He is indeed the All-Forgiving, Most Merciful.

#شرح_العقيدة_الواسطية #٢

ما نستفيد من الناحية المسلكية في الإيمان
بصفتي السمع والرؤية؟

‏أمّا الرُّؤيَةُ: فنستفيد من الإيمان بها الخوف والرجاء : والخوف عند المعصية، لأن الله يرانا. والرجاء عند الطاعة، لأن الله يرانا.
ولا شك انه سَيُثِبُنَا على هذا، فتتقوَّى عزائمنا بطاعة الله، وتضعف إرادتنا لمعصيته

و أمّا السمع: ‏فالأمر فيه ظاهر، لأن الإنسان إذا آمن بسمع الله استلزم إيمانه كمال مراقبة الله تعالى فيما يقول، خوفاً ورجاءً، خوفاً فلا يقول ما يسمع الله تعالى منه من السوء، ورجاءً فيقول الكلام الذي يرضي الله عز وجل

(المقدِّم - المؤخِّر)

قال الخطابي: (المقدم) هو المنزل للأشياء منازلها، يقدِّم ما شاء منها، ويؤخر ما شاء، قدَّم المقادير قبل أم يَخلق الخَلق. وقدَّم من أحب من أوليائه على غيرهم من عَبيده. ورفع الخلق بعضهم فوق بعض درجات ، وقدَّم من شاء بالتوفيق إلى مقامات السابقين
وأخَّر من شاء عن مراتبهم وثبَّطهم عنها. وأخَّر الشيء عن حين تَوقعه لعلمه بما في عواقبه من الحكمة، لا مقدِّم لما أخَّر ولا مؤخر لما قدم

(صـ٥٨٦)

‘and ask forgiveness for your fault’
[ ghafir: 55 ]

- meaning, ask from your Lord forgiveness for your sin, by taking the means to obtain forgiveness: from making dua for forgiveness, and sincere repentance, and doing good deeds that erase (your sins), and leaving off sins, and pardoning the creation and being good towards them — and from that is seeking forgiveness for them. And that is why Allah Said: ‘ and for the believing men and the believing women ‘

thus this is from the fruits of iman — because of their iman, it became their right upon every Muslim that they seek forgiveness for them.

[in this blessed day joyous day of jummuah, don’t forget to make sincere dua for yourself and others, the living and the dead. we are all in desperate need for the forgiveness of our Rabb, and it is only through His Mercy that we are forgiven and enter jannah. seize the blessed moments we are constantly gifted with.]

جُنَّة , jun-nah
بمعنى: ستر، meaning a cover/shield

قال رسول الله ﷺ: الصَّومُ جُنَّة
the messenger of Allah ﷺ said:fasting is a shield

a shield from the temptations of this world, a shield from the harms of desires, a shield from our faults, a shield from the sins we keep returning to, a shield from the glitters of the worldly life.

Allah, from His Mercy has made it easy for us as well as mentioned
in the verse about
the fasting of Ramadan: Allah wants for you ease and does not want for you hardship. al-baqarah:185

{ benefit from the tafsir of imam si’di رحمه الله in which he said: Allah wants to make easy for us the roads that connect to His pleasure, the greatest facilitation 🤍 }

either fast regularly:
mondays and thursdays only
or, the three white days only

don’t want for winter to begin and the days to become shorter than they are already. it is already easy Alhamdulillah and if it’s difficult know that’s by the aid of Allah, it will get easy. patience in obeying Him is from the greatest of patience so let’s be patient, and strive towards goodness — no matter how rugged the path may be 🤍

don’t forget to fast tomorrow, if you can. May Allah grant us tawfeeq.

وكان ﷺ يقطِّع قراءته، ويقف عند كلِّ آيةٍ آيةٍ، فيقول: ﴿الحمد لله رب العالمين﴾ ويقف، ﴿الرحمن الرحيم﴾. وذكر الزهري أن قراءة رسول الله ﷺ كانت: ﴿مالك يوم الدين﴾. وهذا هو الأفضل: الوقوف على رؤوس الآيات وإن تعلَّقت بما بعدها. وذهب بعض القُرَّاء إلى تتبُّعِ الأغراض والمقاصد والوقوفِ عند انتهائها. واتباعُ هدي رسول الله ﷺ وسنَّته أولى. وممن ذكر ذلك البيهقي في «شعب الإيمان» وغيرُه، ورجَّحوا الوقوف على رؤوس الآي وإن تعلَّقت بما بعدها. [زاد المعاد - ٤٠٠/١-٤٠١]

"صديق الإنسان ومحبه هو من سعى في عمارة آخرته وإن أدى ذلك إلى نقص في دنياه." | الأمام النووي رحمه الله في شرح مسلم.

"The (true) friend of a person and the one who really loves him is the one who strives towards building his hereafter, even if that may lead to a deficiency in his worldly life." | Imam an-Nawawi, Explanation of Sahih Muslim.

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ قَدْ جَآءَتْكُم مَّوْعِظَةٌ مِّن رَّبِّكُمْ وَشِفَآءٌ لِّمَا فِى ٱلصُّدُورِ وَهُدًى وَرَحْمَةٌ لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ

O mankind! There has come to you a good advice from your Lord (i.e. the Qur’ân, enjoining all that is good and forbidding all that is evil), and a healing for that (disease of ignorance, doubt, hypocrisy and differences) which is in your breasts, - a guidance and a mercy (explaining lawful and unlawful things) for the believers.
— surah yunus: 57

(وشفاءٌ لما في الصدور) أي: من الشك، والنفاق، والخلاف، والشقاق، (وهدىً) أي: [ورشدٌ] لمن اتبعه، (ورحمةٌ) أي: نعمة، (للمؤمنين): خصهم لأنهم المنتفعون بالإيمان.
القرطبي:١١ / ١٠.

And a cure for what is in the breasts) i.e.: of doubt, hypocrisy, disagreement, and discord, (and guidance) that is: [and guidance] for those who follow it, (and mercy) that is: a blessing, (for the believers): He singles them out because they are the beneficiaries of faith.
al-qurtubi

losing yourself perhaps isn’t only an overwhelming experience of being unable to carry yourself out of bed and your hysterical emotions of anger and sadness leading you astray like we are all told

perhaps it is also losing fragments of yourself bit by bit to this world, to the point where you do not know when you were snatched, and when you started doubting the difference of the waswasa of shaytan and your own thoughts in prayer, when a insistent love for the world and its glitters that itches away at you started— buy the next thing, watch the next show, wear the best clothes, follow the next trend — a cycle that leaves us like hamsters on a wheel, busying ourself with this world, believing what satisfies us lays at the end of the wheel that never ends.

you can binge all the shows, you can eat at all the best restaurants, you can surround yourself with the people you love, you can buy all the best luxuries, and you will still not have something that lasts because materialism and a life following our desires is not a life where gratitude and servitude to Allah is at the core of our days and nights, it is not one connected to the Creator - Allah ﷻ

the messenger of Allah ﷺ said: the one among you who wakes up secure in his property, healthy in his body and has his food for the day, it is as if the whole world were brought to him.” 

when coupled with acknowledging those blessings through shukr and hamd to Allah through worship, that is the true wealth and happiness. a path that has already been laid out for us through the Mercy of Allah. a happiness that doesn’t constrict your heart. joy in living your purpose. a life that is effortless, irregardless of the hardships along the way, your matter is always kheyr.


مَنْ عَمِلَ صَـٰلِحًۭا مِّن ذَكَرٍ أَوْ أُنثَىٰ وَهُوَ مُؤْمِنٌۭ فَلَنُحْيِيَنَّهُۥ حَيَوٰةًۭ طَيِّبَةًۭ ۖ وَلَنَجْزِيَنَّهُمْ أَجْرَهُم بِأَحْسَنِ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ٩٧

{ Whoever works righteousness — whether male or female — while he (or she) is a true believer (of Islamic Monotheism) verily, to him We will give a good life (in this world with respect, contentment and lawful provision), and We shall pay them certainly a reward in proportion to the best of what they used to do (i.e. Paradise in the Hereafter.. }

— بـ

«والدعاء بملاذِّ الدنيا.» [السلسبيل في شرح الدليل]

Abū Bakr As-Siddīq رضي الله عنه said:

“If I did not find anything, except my garment to cover the fault of the thief, the fornicator and the drinker of alcohol, I would have liked to cover them with it."


conceal the faults of others

the messenger of Allah ﷺ said:
..whoever conceals (the fault of) a Muslim in this world, Allah will conceal him (his faults) in this world and in the Hereafter. Allah will help a person so long as he is helping his brother.

a recitation shared by a person who has passed away رحمهم الله. listen to it, make dua for them and share so they may receive some benefit 💌

Shaykh ibn uthaymeen رحمه الله used to advice in finishing the daily portion of the qurān by the beginning of the day, so that its effect and blessings is on the rest of the day, and the person does not know what will busy him

‏أعظم مصيبة ..

قال ‏الضحاك بن مزاحم: «ما من أحدٍ تعلَّم القرآن ثم نسيه إلا بذنب يُحدثه، لأنَّ الله يقول: ﴿وما أصابكم من مصيبةٍ فبِمَا كسَبَت أيديكم﴾ وإن نسيان القرآن من أعظم المصائب».

فضائل القرآن، لأبي عبيد، ص٢٠٢


adhahaak bin mazahim said: there is no one that learnt the Quran then forgot it other than for a sin that he committed, because Allah said: ‘ And whatever affliction, [whatever] misfortune or hardship, may befall you — [this is] an address to the believers — is on account of what your [own] hands have earned, that is to say, [for] the sins that you have committed — the use of ‘hands’ to express this is because most actions are effected by them. [ tafsir jalalayn]
and the forgetting of the Quran is from the greatest of calamities
— fadail al quran by abi ubayd pg. 202