“Those were the people God guided, ‘[Prophet], follow the guidance they received.”

 

Oh Allah!

I do not pray to You as You deserve,

I do not fast as Dawood used to do,

I do not endure when falling ill as Ayoub did,

I do not glorify and praise You as Yunus glorified and praised You into the belly of the whale,

I do not take my religion as firmly as Yahiya did,

I did not lower my gaze as Yusuf lowered all his organs,

               I am not tolerant to the degree of saying: Go you are free,

But I am like all of them love you, Oh Allah.

“And also to some, We have not (mentioned to you).”

If people ignore your favour, do not feel sad;

It is enough that Allah knows who you are!

Knowing Noah (peace be upon him) increases nothing in his scale,

And ignoring other Prophets, whom Allah did not tell us anything about, decreases nothing in their scales.

The army of Haroun Ar-Rahid included twenty thousand Mujahid, who did not record their names in the Registry of Soldiers, and so they did not take their salaries, for the purposes that no one would know them but Allah.

As-Saib bin Al-Aqra’ announced to ‘Umar bin Al-Khattab the martyrs among Muslims in Nahawind Battle. He mentioned some names of noble people among the martyrs, and then said: “And others among low-status people that the Commander of the Believers does not know.” ‘Umar wept and said: “This does not harm them that ‘Umar does not know them. Indeed Allah knows them!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

“For good things drive bad away”

Whenever you sin, say to yourself:

I have lost a battle, but I did not lose the war.

Do not despair, and repair your soul with Wudu and offering two Rak’ah.

Count Istighfar (i.e. asking for Allah’s forgiveness) on the same fingers that sinned.

Recite the Qur’an with the eye that looked at the unlawful.

The groan of the repentant is like the supplication of the obedient before Allah.

He named Himself Al-Ghafoor (the All-Forgiving), and for that He wants you to get back to Him in repentance.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Truly, man is a clear witness against himself”

 

Praise of the praisers does not benefit you,

If they have praised you for what is not in you.

And criticism of the criticizers does not harm you,

If they have criticized you for what is not in you.

Whatever righteousness of man is, he will for sure have haters,

Even Prophets were not beloved by all people.

And whatever immorality of man is, he will for sure have lovers,

Even Pharaoh and Nimrud were beloved by some people.

Mutraf bin Abdullah said: Imam Malik asked me:

What do people say about me?

I said: Your friends praise you, and your enemies criticize you.

He said: People are still in this state. We seek refuge with Allah from the union of all people’s tongues.

He sought refuge from being praised by all people so that he would not feel arrogance.

He also sought refuge from being criticized by all people so that he would have something of what they say.

Death is not the End of the Story;

It is its Beginning

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“And given you some of everything you asked Him for”

He is Allah!

Who has come to Him afraid and He does not secure him?

Who has come to Him broken and He does not repair him?

Who has come to Him seeking help and He does not help him?

Who has come to Him sad and He does not please him?

Who has come to Him confused and He does not guide him?

Just choose the times during which supplications are answered, and set your demands and needs before His Door.

Come to Him during the last third part of the night; arrows of supplications after standing up for the night prayer do not go in vain.

Put your trust in your Lord; for empty hands stretched to Him do for sure return full.

And before all of this, let all your food be lawful.

It was reported in the Hadith: “Purify your food (from unlawful gains) so that your supplications will be answered.”

“But maybe our Lord will give us something better in its place”

Turn off the fire of your sorrow on any opportunity you lost,

Or any job you missed,

Or any loved one left you on the middle of the way,

Or any friend you see only his beautiful side, and then you find that this is just a mask for an offensive wolf.

What Allah has taken from you is for wisdom,

And what Allah has given you is mercy.

If you know the wisdom, express gratitude to Allah;

And if you ignore it, be patient.

All fates of Allah are good even if they caused you to suffer.

“And he swore to them, ‘I am giving you sincere advice’”

It did not come to the minds of Adam and Eve that someone may swear by Allah falsely.

But Iblis did so!

As for his advice, it was that he changed the names of the objects.

It was the Tree of Disobedience,

But he named it the Tree of Eternity.

Evil people follow the steps of Iblis until this day.

They name the wine as a spiritual drink,

Nakedness as fashion,

Obscenity as civilization,

And adultery as open-mindedness.

So do not be deceived by names whenever they have been changed.

“Hurry towards your Lord’s forgiveness and a Garden as wide as the heavens and earth prepared for the righteous”

“Hurry” because death does not wait.

Tomorrow I will repent, tomorrow I will set a program for reading, and tomorrow I will follow a diet …

Tomorrow comes and we execute nothing of what we have intended.

As for long hope, all of us think that death is far!

By the way, those who die now were thinking the same for just a minute.

Hurry, for delaying just some moments may cost you a whole age.

And speaking of which,

As-Sunabehi says: We got out from Yemen migrating to Medina to meet the Prophet (peace be upon him). When we reached Medina, it was said to us:

The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) died for three nights.

Delay for only five nights deprived them of the honour of being among the Prophet’s Companions.

So Hurry Up; maybe a delay of an hour deprives you of Paradise.

“Every soul is certain to taste death: We test you all through the bad and the good, and to Us you will all return”

 Death is the cup from which all people will drink:

The believer and the immoral, the Prophet and the tyrant, the Jinn and the Angels;

No one but Allah will remain.

On the contrary, it (death) is just the beginning!

Sufficient is the death as an admonisher!

Abu Nawwas, the well-known poet who used to drink the wine much, had a righteous neighbour.

That neighbour used to call him to Allah and to leave drinking wine.

When this neighbour died, Abu Nawwas walked into his funeral.

When he stood before his grave, Abu Nawwas said:

Today you are more admonishing than when you were alive.

It means all the words you were advising me with,

Equal nothing as admonition besides seeing you in your grave.