O you who are patient! Bear a little more, just a little more remains.
Ibn al-Qayyim
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يا ابن آدم إنما أنت أيام ! كلما ذهب يوم ذهب بعضك فكيف البقاء!؟
Ibn Bâz (rahimahullah) about the celebration of Christmas and New Year
Question:
Some Muslims participate in the holidays of the Christians. What is your opinion on that?Answer:
It is not allowed for Muslim men and women to participate in the Christian, Jewish and other disbelievers’ holidays. The fact of the matter is that is it obligatory to stay away from them. The one who imitates a people, belongs to them. The Messenger (sallâ Allâhu ‘alayhi wa sallam) warned us against imitating them and their behaviour. The believing men and women should stay away from this. It is not allowed to help them in any way at all that supports their holidays. These holidays contradict the Sharî’ah and thus it is neither allowed to participate in them, cooperate with their people or even help them with tea, coffee or even kitchen items. Allâh (subhânah) says:“And cooperate in righteousness and piety, but do not cooperate in sin and aggression. And fear Allah; indeed, Allah is severe in penalty.” (5:2)
To participate with the disbelievers in their holidays is a way to cooperate in sin and aggression.
— Shaykh ibn Baaz (rahimahullah)
[Source: Majmû’ Fatâwâ wa Maqâlât Mutanaww’ah (6/405)]
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The Effect of Shyness upon Finding a Good Husband Oh Muslim Sister!
[Translated and compiled by Rasheed Barbee, Source]
بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ
All praises belong to Allah may the peace and blessings of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad and upon his family, companions and those who follow his guidance.
Question: In an effort to find a suitable spouse some of our Muslim sisters often resort to impermissible, demeaning methods such as free-mixing with men via the internet, chat rooms, marriage websites, social networks, sending pictures and the like.
Unfortunately some of our sisters have been deceived into believing this to be the more effective technique for obtaining a spouse, removing from themselves the veil of shyness, modesty and dignity.
Oh my sister in Islam! Trust in Allah and follow the blessed methodology of Islam when choosing a mate.
Shaykh Salih Fawzan explains how Allah rewards the shy and modest woman with a good husband. The Shaykh said:
Allah the Exalted said concerning the story of Musa,
وَلَمَّا وَرَدَ مَاءَ مَدْيَنَ وَجَدَ عَلَيْهِ أُمَّةً مِّنَ النَّاسِ يَسْقُونَ وَوَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمُ امْرَأَتَيْنِ تَذُودَانِ ۖ قَالَ مَا خَطْبُكُمَا ۖ قَالَتَا لَا نَسْقِي حَتَّىٰ يُصْدِرَ الرِّعَاءُ ۖ وَأَبُونَا شَيْخٌ كَبِيرٌ
And when he arrived at the watering (place) in Madyan, he found there a group of men watering (their flocks), and besides them he found two women who were keeping back (their flocks). He said: “What is the matter with you?” They said: “We cannot water (our flocks) until the shepherds take back (their flocks): and our father is a very old man.”
(Surah Al Qasas, 28:23)
Until the statement of the Exalted:
فَجَاءَتْهُ إِحْدَاهُمَا تَمْشِي عَلَى اسْتِحْيَاءٍ قَالَتْ إِنَّ أَبِي يَدْعُوكَ لِيَجْزِيَكَ أَجْرَ مَا سَقَيْتَ لَنَا ۚ فَلَمَّا جَاءَهُ وَقَصَّ عَلَيْهِ الْقَصَصَ قَالَ لَا تَخَفْ ۖ نَجَوْتَ مِنَ الْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ
Afterwards one of the women came (back) to him, walking upon bashfulness. She said: “My father invites you that he may reward you for having watered (our flocks) for us.“
(Surah Qasas, 28:25)
So the bashfulness of these two women prevented them from crowding with the men at the watering hole, rather they waited until a shepherd appeared until they were able to water their flock without crowding with the men.
And when their father sent one of them to Musa to request him to meet with their father; she came to Musa عليهالصلاةوالسلام, upon bashfulness.
The result was that Allah the Exalted chose her as a spouse for His Messenger, the one He spoke to directly, Musa عليهالصلاةوالسلام. This was the result of her holding firm to shyness and bashfulness and being far away from mixing with men.
As Allah the Exalted said:
وَالطَّيِّبَاتُ لِلطَّيِّبِينَ وَالطَّيِّبُونَ لِلطَّيِّبَاتِ
“Women of purity are for men of purity, and men of purity are for women of purity”.
(Surah An Nur, 24:26)
This story appears in the Noble Quran to be taken by the believing women as a righteous example until the Day of Judgment.
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The firmer man’s belief, the higher the degree of reliance on Allah.
Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah
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Truly in the heart there is a void that can not be removed except with the company of Allah. And in it there is a sadness that can not be removed except with the happiness of knowing Allah and being true to Him. And in it there is an emptiness that can not be filled except with love from him and by turning to Him and always remembering Him and if a person were given all of the world and what is in it, it would not fill this emptiness.
Ibn Al-Qayyim Al-Jawziyah (Rahimuh Allah)
The argument of “I’m hated so I must be doing something right” is idiotic because it makes no sense. In that case, the Shaytaan must be doing something right because he is very much so hated by all Muslims alike. In that case, Mitt Romney is doing something right because he’s hated (or disliked) by nearly all people with a good head on their shoulders. In that case, murderers and rapists and pedophiles must be doing something right because they’re hated, right? Oh because I thought.
Being hated was never and is never an indication that you’re doing something right. Being hated is subject to reasons and everyone will have a different reason for liking you or for disliking you. Don’t try to draw a comparison between you being hated and you doing something right; because being right doesn’t always mean you’re going to be hated for it and being hated for something doesn’t always mean you’re doing something wrong. Sometimes being hated for what you’re doing may just mean you’re doing something … wrong. Like … spreading lies and falsehood and hypocrasy and stealing and killing and raping and murdering and the list can go on and on.
Na’am, the Prophets, Messengers, Sahaaba, wives of the Prophets, as-Salafus Saalih, at taabi’een, at Tabaa’t taabi’een were all hated in one way or another for ascribing to the truth and being firm in their stance. & yes they were right for that.
But to compare being hated for your beliefs that have no basis no matter how you try to twist it, to them being hated for ascribing to the truth is moronic and idiotic. You’re not hated for being right. I don’t think anyone even hates you personally. Have you ever thought that perhaps they hate the beliefs? The claims? The lies?
But sprinkle a little glitter and call it gold and continue on with your arguments of “they hate me, I must be doing something right.” because surely, with a thought process like that, you must be right.
Rant.over.
Begin with your own self, prohibit it from its evil; And when it ceases, then you are a wise one.
Shaykh Muhammad Umar Bazmool (hafidahullah)
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“Between their two prayers lies a gap as [vast] as that separating the sky from earth”
By Ibn Al-Qayyim (rahimahullah)
Hassan bin ‘Atiya said:
“Two men may offer prayer shoulder to shoulder, and yet between their two prayers lies a gap as [vast] as that gap between the skies and the earth. This is because one of them has his heart turned towards God, while the other is forgetful and heedless.”
Someone who turns away in prayer, either with his eyes or his heart, is like a man whom the king summons and seats before him: just when the king starts to call out his name and addresses him, the man turns from him right and left, and his heart turns away. And since his heart is not present, he understands nothing of what the king says to him. What should this man expect from the king in return? At the very least, should he not expect to leave the palace – rejected, cast out and beneath consideration?
This worshipper is in no wise equal to the one whose heart is present, turned in prayer towards God and so aware of the Grandeur of the One before whom he stands that his heart is filled with awe, his head inclines and he would be ashamed before his Lord to face anyone else, or turn away.
[Source: The Invocation of God by Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah, page 26]
![Asalaamu alykum wa rahmatu’Allaah. I keep seeing this and I don’t mean to single you out, but I thought I should just clarify some things.
I understand your stance of unity and peace & love & masha’Allaah we should all unite as Muslims under the flag of Laa ilaaha il Allaah. However, there seems to be a small misunderstanding about what unity is in Islam.
Unity is not with just anyone. We only unite upon the truth. I don’t just unite with you because you are Muslim, you shouldn’t just unite with me because I am Muslim … it’s more than that. We unite with that which is the truth. So even if someone calls themselves a Muslim, look to their actions and see if it is the truth. Are they celebrating Mawlid? If so, where is the evidence indicating it’s part of the Sunnah? What is the evidence indicating its permissibility? If there is no evidence, you advise them and if they persist, you leave them. You don’t just keep unity with them because these acts have no weight in Islam and are therefore innovations.
A Sunni is not just a follower of Prophet Muhammad [sallah Allaahu alayhi wa sallam], it’s also someone that implements the Sunnah. To implement the sunnah is to abstain from falsehood and to disunite with anyone that is not upon the truth. The Sunnah is to abstain from innovations, to abstain from misguidance and the people of hypocrisy.
The Sunnah is not just the acts & statements of the Prophet, it also explains the Qur’an. So to be a Sunni is not just a follower, it is someone who submits to the truth and follows Islam how the Prophet followed Islam, with all the proofs.
To call yourself a Shia doesn’t just mean you are a follower of ahlul bayt. It also comes with all their principles and their legislations. We are all the followers of ahlul bayt and ahlul bayt consists of Ayesha [the Prophet’s wife, radi’Allaah anha] which the Shia do not consider a part of the household. So basically, it’s like saying I like your family but just not including your mother because I don’t consider her part of your family. They also curse the Sahaba which goes back the being Sunni … the Sahaba were the first to follow the example of the Prophet, so now they’re cursed. So to be a Shia is basically a contradiction of being a Sunni because to follow the Sunnah is to love the Companions of the Prophet because he loved them. To be a Sunni is to love Ayesha because she was the Mother of the Believers. But to be a Shia is to curse Ayesha and to curse the companions.
Shia.
A Salafee is a Sunni. Every Salafee is a Sunni because the Salaf followed the Sunnah and the way of the Prophet, but not every Sunni is Salafee in that they follow Islam upon the understanding of the Salaf. Have I lost you? I hope not. A Salafee is not just a follower either, A Salafee is a Muslim that is upon the correct understanding of the QUr’an and Sunnah because it is in accordance to the Salaf us Saalih, which are the pious predecessors and were [the Salaf] students of the Prophet Muhammad [sallah Allaahu alayhi wa sallam] themselves. Whenever an ayah of the Qur’an was revealed to him, he would teach it to them and they would memorize it and they would implement it. They ran toward the khair and they abstained from the evil. They loved for the sake of Allaah and they hated for the sake of Allaah. They didn’t unite with the people of falsehood and were harsh at times with the people of innovation, ahlul bid’ah. They never associated with anyone that was not a follower of the Kitaab and Sunnah.
Salafiyyah. \ Salafiyyah. \ abdurrahman.org \ troid.ca
I am a Sufi because I believe in the Oneness of Allaah? All the Prophets and all the Messengers came down for one reason, to establish Tawheed, the Oneness of Allaah. Without Tawheed, none of us can call ourselves Muslims or believers. Without Tawheed, we are either polytheists who commit shirk or we are atheists and may Allaah save us from that. This principle of Tawheed is the first principle we should all understand thoroughly in order to accept Islam and implement it. Sufis don’t just believe in the Oneness of Allaah, there are also some branches that believe they are above praying and above worshiping Allaah as Allaah instructed. THIS goes back to the being Sunni. A sunni, a person who follows the way of the Prophet follows that which was ordained, which is to pray 5 times a day, to fast, to give zakat, etc. This is what establishes Islam and what establishes Eeman. Sufis also celebrate mawlid which I stated before is an innovation in Islam.
Sufism.
I guess the first thing that made me reply to this is the fact that there seems to be a bit of ignorance about the concept of Wahhabism. Are you aware of the fact that there is no such thing and this is only a [lame] mockery about one of the greatest scholars of Islam, Muhammad ibn ‘abdul Wahhab? It’s also idiocy of the people that coined the term because Al-Wahhab is one of the lofty names of Allaah and to use it in a derogatory term against a people who only establish tawheed is idiocy to the nth degree. It’s like a slap in your own face, to mock Allaah or TRY to mock a people with the names of Allaah.
There’s no such thing as a sect of Muslims who call themselves Wahhabis. Who are they? What are their legislations? There are none. It’s just a word Ahlul bid’ah use against people who establish tawheed.
This tells you a bit about Muhammad ibn ‘abdul wahhaab. [here]
Wow this is lengthier than I intended it to be. Please understand that I’m not some spiteful person behind their computer screen who hates on anything different from me and wants to disunite people. All I’m doing is trying to clarify for you the issue because there seems to be a lot of ignorance surrounding the issue of Salafees, or shia, or sufis, etc. I’m all for unity, but unity upon the truth. The ayah that you used, is a prime example of every opposing group who calls Muslims, wahhabis. It is an offensive term and it’s used as an insult.
“And this Ummah will divide into seventy-three sects all of which except one will go to Hell and they (i.e. the Saved Sect) are those who are upon what I and My Companions are upon (i.e. those who follow My Way and the Way of my Companions.)” [Reported by at-Tirmidhee - Hasan]
“As-Salafiyyah” is an attachment or affiliation to the ‘Salaf’. And “The Salaf” are the Companions of the Messenger of Allaah (salallaahu ‘alaihi wassallam) and the Imaams of guidance (may Allaah be pleased with them) from the first three generations, those whose goodness Allaah’s Messenger (salallaahu ‘alaihi wasallam) bore witness to in his statement:
“The best of mankind is my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them. Then there will come people where bearing witness of one of them will precede his taking an oath and his taking an oath will be his bearing witness.”
[Reported by Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in the ‘Musnad’, ‘Al-Bukhaaree’, and Muslim]*
And “The Salafiyyoon [or Salafees]” is the plural of “Salafi”, an attachment or affiliation to the Salaf, and its meaning has already preceded above - and they are those who traverse upon the Methodology (Manhaj) of the Salaf in following the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah [of the Messenger of Allaah], and inviting to them, and acting upon them, and they are, due to this, Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah.
* Imaam Ahmad: (4/426). Al-Bukhaaree: (2651). Muslim: (2535).
Permanent Committee for Research and VerdictsShaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz “Fataawa Al-Lajnah Ad-Daa’imah”: (2/165-166). Fatwa No. (1361).Translated by Abu Khadeejah
& I leave you with this :
The religion (deen) is not taken from verdicts my brothers since there are verdicts which are either correct or incorrect. The religion is taken from the evidences and the speech of the people of knowledge which is based upon evidences. And this is religion, one does not divide it and play with it because such and such a person gave such and such verdict. Such people are incorrect and have wasted away their religion and these verdicts do not benefit them in front of Allaah…
Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan.
& Allaah knows best.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ma32xzLHE31rb3iluo1_400.jpg)
Asalaamu alykum wa rahmatu’Allaah. I keep seeing this and I don’t mean to single you out, but I thought I should just clarify some things.
I understand your stance of unity and peace & love & masha’Allaah we should all unite as Muslims under the flag of Laa ilaaha il Allaah. However, there seems to be a small misunderstanding about what unity is in Islam.
Unity is not with just anyone. We only unite upon the truth. I don’t just unite with you because you are Muslim, you shouldn’t just unite with me because I am Muslim … it’s more than that. We unite with that which is the truth. So even if someone calls themselves a Muslim, look to their actions and see if it is the truth. Are they celebrating Mawlid? If so, where is the evidence indicating it’s part of the Sunnah? What is the evidence indicating its permissibility? If there is no evidence, you advise them and if they persist, you leave them. You don’t just keep unity with them because these acts have no weight in Islam and are therefore innovations.
A Sunni is not just a follower of Prophet Muhammad [sallah Allaahu alayhi wa sallam], it’s also someone that implements the Sunnah. To implement the sunnah is to abstain from falsehood and to disunite with anyone that is not upon the truth. The Sunnah is to abstain from innovations, to abstain from misguidance and the people of hypocrisy.
The Sunnah is not just the acts & statements of the Prophet, it also explains the Qur’an. So to be a Sunni is not just a follower, it is someone who submits to the truth and follows Islam how the Prophet followed Islam, with all the proofs.
To call yourself a Shia doesn’t just mean you are a follower of ahlul bayt. It also comes with all their principles and their legislations. We are all the followers of ahlul bayt and ahlul bayt consists of Ayesha [the Prophet’s wife, radi’Allaah anha] which the Shia do not consider a part of the household. So basically, it’s like saying I like your family but just not including your mother because I don’t consider her part of your family. They also curse the Sahaba which goes back the being Sunni … the Sahaba were the first to follow the example of the Prophet, so now they’re cursed. So to be a Shia is basically a contradiction of being a Sunni because to follow the Sunnah is to love the Companions of the Prophet because he loved them. To be a Sunni is to love Ayesha because she was the Mother of the Believers. But to be a Shia is to curse Ayesha and to curse the companions.
Shia.
A Salafee is a Sunni. Every Salafee is a Sunni because the Salaf followed the Sunnah and the way of the Prophet, but not every Sunni is Salafee in that they follow Islam upon the understanding of the Salaf. Have I lost you? I hope not. A Salafee is not just a follower either, A Salafee is a Muslim that is upon the correct understanding of the QUr’an and Sunnah because it is in accordance to the Salaf us Saalih, which are the pious predecessors and were [the Salaf] students of the Prophet Muhammad [sallah Allaahu alayhi wa sallam] themselves. Whenever an ayah of the Qur’an was revealed to him, he would teach it to them and they would memorize it and they would implement it. They ran toward the khair and they abstained from the evil. They loved for the sake of Allaah and they hated for the sake of Allaah. They didn’t unite with the people of falsehood and were harsh at times with the people of innovation, ahlul bid’ah. They never associated with anyone that was not a follower of the Kitaab and Sunnah.
Salafiyyah. \ Salafiyyah. \ abdurrahman.org \ troid.ca
I am a Sufi because I believe in the Oneness of Allaah? All the Prophets and all the Messengers came down for one reason, to establish Tawheed, the Oneness of Allaah. Without Tawheed, none of us can call ourselves Muslims or believers. Without Tawheed, we are either polytheists who commit shirk or we are atheists and may Allaah save us from that. This principle of Tawheed is the first principle we should all understand thoroughly in order to accept Islam and implement it. Sufis don’t just believe in the Oneness of Allaah, there are also some branches that believe they are above praying and above worshiping Allaah as Allaah instructed. THIS goes back to the being Sunni. A sunni, a person who follows the way of the Prophet follows that which was ordained, which is to pray 5 times a day, to fast, to give zakat, etc. This is what establishes Islam and what establishes Eeman. Sufis also celebrate mawlid which I stated before is an innovation in Islam.
I guess the first thing that made me reply to this is the fact that there seems to be a bit of ignorance about the concept of Wahhabism. Are you aware of the fact that there is no such thing and this is only a [lame] mockery about one of the greatest scholars of Islam, Muhammad ibn ‘abdul Wahhab? It’s also idiocy of the people that coined the term because Al-Wahhab is one of the lofty names of Allaah and to use it in a derogatory term against a people who only establish tawheed is idiocy to the nth degree. It’s like a slap in your own face, to mock Allaah or TRY to mock a people with the names of Allaah.
There’s no such thing as a sect of Muslims who call themselves Wahhabis. Who are they? What are their legislations? There are none. It’s just a word Ahlul bid’ah use against people who establish tawheed.
This tells you a bit about Muhammad ibn ‘abdul wahhaab. [here]
Wow this is lengthier than I intended it to be. Please understand that I’m not some spiteful person behind their computer screen who hates on anything different from me and wants to disunite people. All I’m doing is trying to clarify for you the issue because there seems to be a lot of ignorance surrounding the issue of Salafees, or shia, or sufis, etc. I’m all for unity, but unity upon the truth. The ayah that you used, is a prime example of every opposing group who calls Muslims, wahhabis. It is an offensive term and it’s used as an insult.
“And this Ummah will divide into seventy-three sects all of which except one will go to Hell and they (i.e. the Saved Sect) are those who are upon what I and My Companions are upon (i.e. those who follow My Way and the Way of my Companions.)” [Reported by at-Tirmidhee - Hasan]
“As-Salafiyyah” is an attachment or affiliation to the ‘Salaf’. And “The Salaf” are the Companions of the Messenger of Allaah (salallaahu ‘alaihi wassallam) and the Imaams of guidance (may Allaah be pleased with them) from the first three generations, those whose goodness Allaah’s Messenger (salallaahu ‘alaihi wasallam) bore witness to in his statement:
“The best of mankind is my generation, then those who follow them, then those who follow them. Then there will come people where bearing witness of one of them will precede his taking an oath and his taking an oath will be his bearing witness.”
[Reported by Imaam Ahmad ibn Hanbal in the ‘Musnad’, ‘Al-Bukhaaree’, and Muslim]*
And “The Salafiyyoon [or Salafees]” is the plural of “Salafi”, an attachment or affiliation to the Salaf, and its meaning has already preceded above - and they are those who traverse upon the Methodology (Manhaj) of the Salaf in following the Book of Allaah and the Sunnah [of the Messenger of Allaah], and inviting to them, and acting upon them, and they are, due to this, Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaa’ah.
* Imaam Ahmad: (4/426). Al-Bukhaaree: (2651). Muslim: (2535).
Permanent Committee for Research and Verdicts
Shaykh `Abdul-`Azeez Bin Baz
“Fataawa Al-Lajnah Ad-Daa’imah”: (2/165-166). Fatwa No. (1361).Translated by Abu Khadeejah
& I leave you with this :
The religion (deen) is not taken from verdicts my brothers since there are verdicts which are either correct or incorrect. The religion is taken from the evidences and the speech of the people of knowledge which is based upon evidences. And this is religion, one does not divide it and play with it because such and such a person gave such and such verdict. Such people are incorrect and have wasted away their religion and these verdicts do not benefit them in front of Allaah…
Shaykh Saalih al-Fawzaan.
& Allaah knows best.
“There is no blame on the one who openly manifests the math-hab of the Salaf, ascribes himself to it, and takes honour in it. Rather, that must be accepted from him due to the agreement (of the scholars). For verily the math-hab of the Salaf is nothing but Truth…”
Shaykhul-Islaam Ibn Taymiyyah in Majmoo’ Al-Fataawaa, 4/149
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