Beneficial Books

2021-06-29 11:50:34 Praise be to ALLAH forever and for eternity.
The people of greed and shame have been beautified;
There is no beauty except in the one satisfied by a small amount.
Indeed! Contenment is the garment of strength and religion.

Selections From The Garden Of The Wise And The Meadow Of The Virtuous,
Imam Ibn Hibban rahimahullah,
Pg: 83. Open / Comment

2021-06-29 08:40:26 DO NOT ALLOW IT TO SLIP YOUR MIND

The fact that your tongue is a double-edged sword. It will benefit you if you utilize it for beneficial speech, such as remembrance of Allāh, dua'ā' and seeking forgiveness. Otherwise, it will harm you if you use it for insulting, cursing, backbiting, tale-carrying, and other impermissible speech.

Book: A Letter To The Incarcerated Muslim
By Shaykh AbduIlah ibn Jāru Allah
Translated by Rasheed Barbee
Authentic Statements Publications
P. 20 Open / Comment

2021-06-27 02:27:22 A WOMAN DESIRES TO MARRY A MAN WHO IS ALREADY MARRIED

Shaykh Ahmad an-Najmi (رحمه الله)

Questioner: This questioner from Britain asks, “What is your advice for a sister who desires to marry a man who is already married?”

Shaykh: May Allāh reward her with goodness.

Someone present jokingly says: (Perhaps) she deems herself to be better (for him).

Shaykh: Yes, may Allāh reward her with goodness. That is not something which should be cautioned against. Rather, it is upon her and upon all women that they should not be wary of or refrain from marrying a man who has a wife, or two wives, or (even) three. Na’am.

Book: The Beauty of Plural Marriage
By Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azīz bin Bāz
Translated by Raha Batts
Authentic Statements Publications
P. 48 Open / Comment

2021-06-27 00:43:42 THE GRATEFULNESS OF THE SPECIAL ONES

Ibn al-Qayyim (رحمه الله) said,

"The gratefulness of the common-folk is for food, drink, clothing and bodily nourishments. The gratefulness of the special ones is for Tawhīd, faith (īmān) and the nourishment of the hearts.

And gratefulness is always accompanied by increase, due to His saying, the Exalted:

لَئِن شَكَرْتُمْ لَأَزِيدَنَّكُمْ

If you are grateful, I will grant you increase. (Ibrāhīm 14:7)

So when you do not see your condition in (a state of) increase, then turn to gratitude."

* Refer to al-Madārij (2/232 onwards), abridged.

Book: A Principle Regarding Patience and Gratitude
By Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah
Translated by Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafīq
Hikmah Publications
P. 67 Open / Comment

2021-06-27 00:18:29 PATIENCE IS A TREASURE

Al-Hasan al-Basrī (رحمه الله) said,

"Patience is a treasure amongst the treasures of goodness that Allāh does not grant except to a servant that is noble to Him."

* 'Uddah al-Sābirīn of Ibn al-Qayyim (p.156).

Book: A Principle Regarding Patience and Gratitude
By Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah
Translated by Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafīq
Hikmah Publications
P. 42 Open / Comment

2021-06-20 02:45:07 SHOW BENEVOLENCE TO THE CREATION

From the ways to achieve happiness is to show benevolence to the creation and to benefit them as much as possible with wealth, position, physical assistance and all forms of kindness. Indeed, the generous, kind person is the happiest of the people, the most cheerful of them and those with the happiest hearts.

Conversely, the stingy person, who lacks kindness, is the most miserable of the people, the one with the most depressing life and the one with the greatest sorrow and anxiety.

Book: The Keys To Happiness
By Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim
Translated by Hassan Somali
Hikmah Publications
P. 27 Open / Comment

2021-06-20 00:16:17 THAT ONE MOMENT..

Al-Junayd, may Allāh have mercy on him, said,

"If a man worships Allāh for one thousand years, and then he turns away from Him for one moment, then what he missed in this moment is more than what he gained [in the one thousand years of worship]." *

* This athar was mentioned in Hilyatu'l-Auliyā' by Abū-Nu'aym (10/278).

Book: Awaking From The Sleep of Heedlesness
By al-Hāfiz Abū'l-Faraj ibn al-Jawzī
Translated and Published by
Dār as-Sunnah Publishers
P. 31 Open / Comment

2021-06-19 21:04:05 ON THE DAY WHEN THERE IS NO SHADE EXCEPT HIS

If two individuals love one another for the sake of Allāh and they meet upon this love and depart upon it, then they will be from those whom Allāh shades with His shade on a day when there is no shade except His. *

* Bukhārī (no.660) Muslim (no. 1031)

Book: The Keys To Happiness
By Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim
Translated by Hassan Somali
Hikmah Publications
P. 64 Open / Comment

2021-06-19 01:05:33 EASY FOR THE ONE FOR WHOM ALLĀH MAKES IT EASY

Imām al-Sā'dī (رحمه الله) wrote,

"For abandoning aiding one's own soul through speech or action is from the most difficult of affairs upon it.
And having patience upon harm, pardoning, forgiving and returning (harm) with benevolence is even harder.
However, it is easy for the one for whom Allāh makes it easy, and (for the one) who strives against his soul to acquire this quality and who seeks aid from Allāh upon that.
Then when the servant tastes the sweetness of that and finds its (positive) effects, he will adopt it with an open chest and will relish it."

* Taysīr al-Karīm al-Rahmān in Al-Majmū'ah al-Kāmilah (6/625).

Book: A Principle Regarding Patience and Gratitude
By Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah
Translated by Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafīq
Hikmah Publications
P. 34 Open / Comment

2021-06-14 23:38:51 DO YOU NOT LOVE THAT ALLĀH SHOULD FORGIVE YOU?

The Messenger (ﷺ) said,

"Those who are merciful will be shown mercy by al-Rahmān, be merciful to those upon the Earth and He who is above the Heaven will show mercy to you."

Refer to Al-Silsilah al-Sahīhah of Shaykh al-Albāni (no.935).

Book: A Principle Regarding Patience and Gratitude
By Shaykh al-Islam ibn Taymiyyah
Translated by Abu Iyaad Amjad Rafīq
Hikmah Publications
P. 31 Open / Comment