The heart in which love and compassion for all living beings resides

A fakir once set out on a long journey, carrying with him a bundle filled with bread to eat on the way. At the end of the first day on the road he came to a small mosque, and there he rested for the night. Resuming his journey early the next morning, he walked at a brisk pace for about ten miles and then decided to have a bite to eat. But when he opened his bundle, he found that his bread was full of ants. “Ah, that is too bad,” he thought. “For I have taken these poor ants a long way away from their home in that mosque. How they must be longing to see their parents, children and friends." Filled with solicitude for the welfare of the ants, the fakir retraced his steps and took the ants back to their home in the little mosque. “The heart in which love and compassion for all living beings resides, can have no room for seeking after personal pleasures.”

taken from the tales of the Mystic East, 1977, page 135

The Wisdom In Islam

“Wisdom In Islam” encompasses in its radiant words the true goals that all of us must strive for. Its bounty of mercy, forgiveness and guidance is stunning in its clarity. Imagine using this wonderful guidance on a regular basis? It is important to endeavor to practice and then to invite others to practice these beautiful words of wisdom.

A Bedouin came one day to the Prophet Mohammed (Peace Be Upon Him) and said to him, O Messenger of Allah! I've come to ask you a few questions about the affairs of this life and the Hereafter.”

Ask what you wish.

-I’d like to be the most learned of men.
Fear Allah, and you will be the most learned of men.

-I wish to be the richest man in the world.
Be contented, and you will be the richest man in the world.

-I’d like to be the most just of men.
Desire for others what you desire for yourself, and you will be the most just of men.

-I want to be the best of men.
Do good to others and you will be the best of men.

- I wish to be the most favored by Allah.
Engage much in Allah’s praise, and you will be most favored by Him.

-I’d like to complete my faith.
If you have good manners you will complete your faith.

-I wish to be among those who do good.
Adore Allah as if you see Him. If you don’t see Him, He sees you.
In this way you will be among those who do good.

-I wish to be obedient to Allah.
If you observe Allah’s commands you will be obedient.

-I’d like to be free from all sins.
Bathe yourself from impurities and you will be free from all sins.

-I’d like to be raised on the Day of Judgment in the light.
Don’t wrong yourself or any other creature,and you will be raised on the Day of Judgment in the light.

-I’d like Allah to bestow His mercy on me.
If you have mercy on yourself and on others, Allah will grant you mercy on the Day of Judgment.

-I’d like my sins to be very few.
If you seek the forgiveness of Allah as much as you can; your sins will be very few.

-I’d like to be the most honorable man.
If you do not complain to any fellow creature,you will be the most honorable of men.

-I’d like to be the strongest of men.
If you put your trust in Allah, you be the strongest of men.

-I’d like to enlarge my provision.
If you keep yourself pure, Allah will enlarge your provision.

-I’d like to be loved by Allah and His messenger.
If you love what Allah and His messenger love you will be among their beloved ones.

-I wish to be safe from Allah’s wrath on the Day of Judgment.
If you do not lose your temper with any of your fellow creatures,
you will be safe from the wrath of Allah on the Day of Judgment.

-What will save me from sins?
Tears, humility and illness.

-What are the best deeds in the eyes of Allah?
Gentle manners, modesty and patience.

-What are the worst evils in the eyes of Allah?
Hot temper and miserliness.

-What assuages the wrath of Allah in this life and in the Hereafter?
Concealed charity and kindness to relatives.

-What extinguishes hell’s fires on the Day of Judgment?
Patience in adversity and misfortunes.

“I have never heard a tradition more comprehensive of the beauties of religion,
and more beneficial than this hadith. It collects all the good things of Islam.”
(Related by Imam Ibn Hambal).

Rabi’a al Dousary The Man With Passion Of Islam

The killer, Faisal al-Ameri, kisses the forehead of Rabi’a al-Dousary, the father of the young man he killed. (Photo courtesy al-Yawm newspaper) 

A Saudi father pardoned his son’s killer if he successfully memorized the Holy Quran, a local newspaper reported on Saturday. 

Rabi’a al-Dousary, father of the slain young man named Abdullah, promised to pardon the convicted felon, Faisal al-Ameri, if he successfully memorized all of the Holy Quran before leaving prison, al-Yawm Saudi newspaper reported. 

Ameri was sentenced to death for killing Dousary during a quarrel that erupted in their neighborhood.

The Higher Committee of Correction in the Eastern Province of the Kingdom has persuaded the father to forgive and pardon Ameri.

The father, who refused to receive any blood money, to teach the Ameri a far more valuable lesson, insisted on one condition: the killer to fully memorize the Quran before his acquittal from prison.

This is the true passion of Islam, This is the true mercy from believer of Allah, This is the lesson every Muslim brother and sister need to learn.. To be believer we must be kind and merciful to all humanity,

Our beloved Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessing on him) said

Kindness is a mark of faith, and whoever is not kind has no faith. (Muslim)

Allah will not give mercy to anyone, except those who give mercy to other creatures. (Abdullah b. Amr: Abu Dawud & Tirmidhi)

Source:  AL ARABIYA 

Golden Advice

Harith Ibn Idris Advise me

Dawud At-Taa'e Advise him

Let death be your slogan. 

In another narration he said,
"Know that the soldiers of death are in wait for you"

Abu Hazim Salamah Ibn Dinar

Abandon every matter because of which you hate to meet death, for this way, it will not make a differences to you if you die any time..

No hajj or jihad is more difficult than imprisoning the tongue..

A scholar was invited to dinner one evening where he overheard two people engaged in backbiting at the dinner table.

He turned to them and said,

“Brothers, it is interesting that most people start their dinner with bread but you two have started your dinner by eating the flesh of your dead brother.”

Islamic Advice To Be A Better Person

Health:

1. Drink plenty of water.
2. Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a beggar.
3. Eat more foods that grow on trees and plants and eat less food that is manufactured in plants.
4. Live with the 3 E’s - Energy, Enthusiasm and Empathy
5. Play more games.
6. Read more books than you did in 2011.
7. Sit in silence for at least 10 minutes each day.
8. Sleep for 7 hours.
9. Take a 10-30 minutes walk daily. And while you walk, smile.

Personality:

1. Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
2. Don’t have negative thoughts or things you cannot control. Instead invest your energy in the positive present moment.
3. Don’t over do. Keep your limits.
4. Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
5. Don’t waste your precious energy on gossip.
6. Dream more while you are awake.
7. Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
8. Forget issues of the past. Don’t remind your partner with his/her mistakes of the past. That will ruin your present happiness.
9. Life is too short to waste time hating anyone. Don’t hate others.
10. Make peace with your past so it won’t spoil the present.
11. No one is in charge of your happiness except you.
12. Realize that life is a school and you are here to learn. Problems are simply part of the curriculum that appear and fade away like algebra class but the lessons you learn will last a lifetime.
13. Smile and laugh more.
14. You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

Society:

1. Call your family often.
2. Each day give something good to others.
3. Forgive everyone for everything.
4. Spend time with people over the age of 70 & under the age of 6.
5. Try to make at least three people smile each day.
6. What other people think of you is none of your business.
7. Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends will. Stay in touch.

Life:

1. Do the right thing!
2. Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
3. However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
4. No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
5. The best is yet to come.
6. Your Inner most is always happy. So, be happy.
   

“A SHIP DOES NOT SAIL ON DRY LAND”

قُلۡ يَـٰعِبَادِىَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَسۡرَفُواْ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ لَا تَقۡنَطُواْ مِن رَّحۡمَةِ ٱللَّهِ‌ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَغۡفِرُ ٱلذُّنُوبَ جَمِيعًا‌ۚ إِنَّهُ ۥ هُوَ ٱلۡغَفُورُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ
“Say: ‘O ‘Ibaadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allaah, verily, Allaah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft‑Forgiving, Most Merciful"

[al-Zumar (39):53]

Abu’l Atahiyya wrote to Harun ar-Rashid: 

“Do not feel secure from death at any time

Even if you seek protection in your advisor’s and your guards,

know that the arrows of death are always pointing in our direction,

whatever armour and shields we may have.

Do you hope for forgiveness, when you have not trodden its paths?

A ship does not sail on dry land.”

 Rawdhat al–’Uqala p.284

The believers

Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) said

The believers, in their mutual mercy, love and compassion, are like a (single) body, if one part of it feels pain, the rest of the body will join it in staying awake and suffering fever.

Plentiful Charity as per Islamic Teachings

From the morals and manners of the Salaf was that they would practice abundant charity with ah that was beyond their needs, day and night, secretly and openly. Whoever did not have food or wealth to spend, they would be charitable by sparing the people their harms and by bearing the harms of others.

Allaah the Most High said, "Those who spend their wealth by night and day, in secret and in public, shall have their reward with their Lord. On them shall be no fear nor shall they grieve." [Sooratul-Baqarah (2):274] He also said, "You shall not attain piety (birr) until you spend out of that which you love. Whatever good you spend Allaah knows well." [Soorah Aali-'lmraan (3):92]

'Abdul-'Azeez ibn 'Umair (rahimahullaah), said, "Salaat will reach you half the road, fasting lets you reach the door of the king, and charity allows you to enter into the king's company." He also used to say, "Wealth to us are deposits for generosity."

Their manners was to smile cheerfully at the face of the beggar and not to suspect him. They would always think that he only begged out of dire need.

Sufyaan ath-Thawri (rahimahullaah), used to be overjoyed if he saw beggar at his door saying, "Welcome to the one who has come wash my sins."

Fudhayl ibn 'Iyaad (rahimahullah), said, "Beggars are such good people! They carry our provision to the Afterlife without pay me until they place it on the scale in front of Allaah the Most High."

by Shaykh Ahmed Fareed

When Friends Become Enemies

Allaah, the Most High, says:

الْأَخِلَّاء يَوْمَئِذٍ بَعْضُهُمْ لِبَعْضٍ عَدُوٌّ إِلَّا الْمُتَّقِينَ

Friends on that Day will be foes one to another except the pious who fear Allaah (al-Muttaqoon).” az-Zukhruf (43):67

Indeed the enmity between these friends springs from the source of their worldly love of one another since they united upon evil, and were indulgent with regard to one another’s misguidance. So on that Day they will blame one another for the consequences of their misguidance and the result of their evil. On that Day they will become adversaries heaping abuse on one another when once they had been friends who exchanged secrets. On that Day the oppressor who loved unjustifiably will bite his hand in regret, remorse and distress – and regret will be of no benefit then.


وَيَوْمَ يَعَضُّ الظَّالِمُ عَلَى يَدَيْهِ يَقُولُ يَا لَيْتَنِي اتَّخَذْتُ مَعَ الرَّسُولِ سَبِيلًا

يَا وَيْلَتَى لَيْتَنِي لَمْ أَتَّخِذْ فُلَانًا خَلِيلًا

لَقَدْ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ الذِّكْرِ بَعْدَ إِذْ جَاءنِي وَكَانَ الشَّيْطَانُ لِلْإِنسَانِ خَذُولًا

“And (remember) the Day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, he will say: ‘Oh! Would that I had taken a path with the Messenger (Muhammad salAllaahu alayhi wasallam). Ah! Woe to me! Would that I had never taken so-and-so as a friend! He indeed led me astray from the Reminder (the Qur’aan) after it had come to me. And Satan is ever a deserter to man in the hour of need.’”

al-Furqaan (25):27-29

All his friends round about will be silent as he raises his grieving voice in mournful tones, but no one will respond to him, he has lost every loved one and close friend, so he begins to bite his hands in regret, remorse and sorrow … and biting on one hand will not suffice him, rather he bites one and then the other or both together due to severe anguish.

Whilst the former friends are lost in their recriminations and their regrets, those who loved one another for Allaah’s sake and formed ties for Him and were sincere towards each other will be surrounded with security, calm and tranquility.

يَا عِبَادِ لَا خَوْفٌ عَلَيْكُمُ الْيَوْمَ وَلَا أَنتُمْ تَحْزَنُونَ

“My worshippers! No fear shall be on you this Day nor shall you grieve.”

az-Zukhruf (43):68

‘O Allaah, gather our hearts upon your prescribed way, and make us from those who love You, and from those who love those who love You, since we know that a person will be raised up along with those he loves.’

From Anas ibn Maalik who said that a man said to the Prophet (salAllaahu alayhi wasallam), “When will the Hour be, O Messenger of Allah?” He replied, “What have you prepared for it?” He said: “I have not prepared for it a great deal of prayer, fasting or charity, but I love Allah and His Messnger.” He (salAllahu ‘alayhi wasallam) said, “You will be with those whom you love.”1

Footnote:

1. Reported by al-Bukhaaree [Eng. trans. 8/123-124/no.192] Muslim [Eng. trans. 4/1386/no.6378] and others, and there are similar narrations from ‘Abdullaah ibn Mas’ood, Aboo Moosa al-Ash’aree and Safwaan ibn ‘Assaal, radiyallaahu ‘anhum.

Transcribed from: Love & Hate for the Sake of Allaah | Shaykh Saleem al-Hilaalee

Achieving the love of Allah is One of the Greatest Rewards

Imam Ibn ul Qayyim,said there are 10 ways of bringing about the love of Allah swt.

All of them involve seeking knowledge:

• Recitation of Quran, reflection and understanding

• After obligatory acts of ibadat, doing superogatory acts

• Constant remembrance in every circumstance by the to tongue and actions

• Preferring His love over your own

• Comprehension of Allah swt Names and attributes,Witnessing them and having knowledge of them

• Witnessing and acknowledging His generosity and His Benevolence,Favors and blessings

• The hearts total defeat and humility in front of Allah

• Being alone at the time of descent of Allah for having private conversations with Him,Reciting His Words and repenting in front of Him

• Sitting with the truthful lovers of Allah and gathering the good fruits

• Keeping distant from everything that comes between the heart and Allah,the Mighty the Majestic

from these 10 ways can the love of Allah be reached and the chief fundamental principle behind that comprise two.Preparing the soul for it and opening the eye to keen, sure knowledge.