The Journey Begins

I traverse on this path seeking enlightenment, comfort, security and happiness - that which comes with ‘ilm - yet ultimately I seek the Pleasure of Allah ta’ala and the eternal abode of bliss, that is, Jannah.

Mu’aadh ibn Jabal (radi’Allaahu’anhu) said: “Knowledge is a comforting friend in times of loneliness, it is the best companion during travels, and it is the inner friend who speaks to you in your privacy. Knowledge is the discerning proof of what is right and what is wrong, and it is the positive force that will help you surmount the trials of comfort, as well as those of hardships. Knowledge is your most powerful sword against your enemy, and finally, it is your most dignifying raiment in the company of your close companions.”
May it be a fruitful initiative and may Allah ta’ala accept it of me.

رَّبِّ زِدْنِي عِلْمًا

O Allah increase me in knowledge!

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Salaf In Winter

Ibn Umar may Allah be pleased with him said: “Winter is the gain of the worshippers.” Narrated by Abu Na’iem with a sound chain of narration “saheeh”.

Ibn Rajab said: “Winter was the spring of the believer for he finds himself in the obeidances’ groves, demobilizes in the fields of worship, and releases his heart in the gardens of good deeds that are made easy in it.”

Ibn Mas’oud may Allah be pleased with him said: “Welcome winter; the blessings descends in it, nights become longer to pray qiyaam, and daylight becomes shorter for fasting.”

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Steps to Knowledge

Sufyân b. ‘Uyainah – Allah have mercy on him – said:

The first step in knowledge is to listen, then to be quiet and attentive, then to preserve it, then to put it into practice and then to spread it.

Abû Nu’aym, Hilyah Al-Awliyâ` Vol.3 p283.

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Until the Heart is sealed

Explanation of the verse:

"Nay, but their hearts were covered over by what (sins) they earned." [Al-Mutaffifîn: 14]

Al-Hasan (Al-Basrî) said, “It is because of doing one sin after another, until the heart becomes blind and dies.”

Qatâdah also said, “It is because of doing one sin after another, one sin after another, until the heart dies and becomes black.”

Ibn Zayd said, “Their sins overcome their hearts until no good can get through to them.”

Mujâhid explained, “They used to consider the heart like a hand: when a person sins, his heart starts to scrunch up,” and he folded his little finger, “and when he does another sin,” he folded the next finger and continued until he had his fist clenched. “Then a seal is placed over it, and they used to say that this is the ‘covering’.”

{Al-Tabarî in his Tafsîr, Sûrah Al-Mutaffifîn.} Read more!

La illaha illa Allah..Muhammadan rasul Allah

24. Have you not considered how Allah presents an example, [making] a good word like a good tree, whose root is firmly fixed and its branches [high] in the sky? 25. It produces its fruit all the time, by permission of its Lord. And Allah presents examples for the people that perhaps they will be reminded. 26. And the example of a bad word is like a bad tree, uprooted from the surface of the earth, not having any stability. 27. Allah keeps firm those who believe, with the firm word, in worldly life and in the Hereafter. And Allah sends astray the wrongdoers. And Allah does what He wills. Quran: [14:24-27].

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