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

monday fast reminder 💌

﴿ادعُ إِلى سَبيلِ رَبِّكَ بِالحِكمَةِ وَالمَوعِظَةِ الحَسَنَةِ وَجادِلهُم بِالَّتي هِيَ أَحسَنُ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ أَعلَمُ بِمَن ضَلَّ عَن سَبيلِهِ وَهُوَ أَعلَمُ بِالمُهتَدينَ﴾ [النحل: ١٢٥]

وهناك ساعة إجابة في كل ليلة، وهي المذكورة في قول النبي ﷺ: «إن في الليل لساعة لا يوافقها رجل مسلم، يسأل الله خيراً من أمر الدنيا والآخرة، إلا أعطاه إياه، وذلك كل ليلة». وليس المقصود بالساعة الساعة التي هي ستون دقيقة، بل هي لحظات، مثل ساعة الإجابة في يوم الجمعة، وأرجى ما قيل في ساعة الإجابة في الليل: أنها آخر الليل قبيل أذان الفجر. [صـ٣٠٧]

cr: umalkiraam | ig

.And put forward to them the example of the life of this world: it is like the water (rain) which We send down from the sky, and the vegetation of the earth mingles with it, and becomes fresh and green. But (later) it becomes dry and broken pieces, which the winds scatter. And Allâh is Able to do everything.

al-kahf: 45

كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآئِقَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۗ وَنَبْلُوكُم بِٱلشَّرِّ وَٱلْخَيْرِ فِتْنَةً ۖ وَإِلَيْنَا تُرْجَعُونَ

Every soul will taste death. And We test you with evil and with good as trial; and to Us you will be returned.


(ونبلوكم بالشر والخير) أي: نختبركم بالفقر والغنى، والصحة والمرض، وغير ذلك من أحوال الدنيا؛ ليظهر الصبر على الشر، والشكر على الخير، أو خلاف ذلك.

(And We test you with evil and good) i.e.: We test you with poverty and wealth, health and disease, and other worldly conditions; to show patience over evil, and gratitude for good, or otherwise.

ابن جزي

عن أبي بكر الصديق رضي الله عنه قال: نَظَرت إِلى أقدام المشركين ونحن في الغار وهم على رؤُوسِنا، فقلت: يا رسول الله، لَو أنَّ أحَدَهم نظر تحت قدَمَيه لأَبصَرَنا، فقال: «مَا ظَنُّكَ يَا أَبَا بَكرٍ بِاثنَينِ الله ثَالِثُهُمَا».
— متفق عليه

لو لم يكن من القراءة إلا أنها تجعل لأوقات فراغنا معنى، ولتأملاتنا مغزى، ولخلواتنا مرمى، ولوحدتنا مأوى، ولعقولنا مرعى، ولأفكارنا مسقى، ولأتراحنا مسلى، وعن همومنا منأى، ولآمالنا مسرى، لكفى بذلك داعيا إلى اكتسابها عادة يومية غير منقطعة. | أ.عبيد الظاهري

﴿وَقَد نَزَّلَ عَلَيكُم فِي الكِتابِ أَن إِذا سَمِعتُم آياتِ اللَّهِ يُكفَرُ بِها وَيُستَهزَأُ بِها فَلا تَقعُدوا مَعَهُم حَتّى يَخوضوا في حَديثٍ غَيرِهِ إِنَّكُم إِذًا مِثلُهُم إِنَّ اللَّهَ جامِعُ المُنافِقينَ وَالكافِرينَ في جَهَنَّمَ جَميعًا﴾ [النساء: ١٤٠]

فهذا دليل على وجوب اجتناب أهل المعاصي حال فعلها ومُواقعتها، وهذا مقتضى عدم الرضا بالمعصية، لأن من لم يجتنبهم فقد رضي فعلهم كما دل عليه قوله تعالى ﴿إِنَّكُم إِذًا مِثلُهُم﴾

وعن هشام بن عروة قال "أخذ عمر بن عبد العزيز قوما على شراب فضربهم وفيهم صائم، فقالو: إن هذا صائم! فتلا ﴿فَلا تَقعُدوا مَعَهُم حَتّى يَخوضوا في حَديثٍ غَيرِهِ إِنَّكُم إِذًا مِثلُهُم﴾

أعمال القلوب - خالد السبت (٤٠٣/٢)

ash-shaafi’i رحمه الله said:
i befriended the sufis and i did not benefit from them except in two words.

i heard them saying: time is a knife, either you cut it or it cuts you, and you either busy your nafs in righteousness/haqq or it busies you with falsehood

— the value of time for the scholars, pp 43