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B.B. Abdulla
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August 16 - November 8, 2020
The root of happiness in this world is contentment. By being content, you are led to the doors of gratefulness. By being content, you are patient and satisfied with the decrees of your Master, Allah ﷻ. By being grateful, you take that a step further and are not only content, but happy, and grateful for the state you are in. As for the reward of the patient ones, Allah ﷻ says: “Say, ‘[God says], believing servants, be mindful of your Lord! Those who do good in this world will have a good reward–
those who persevere patiently will be given a full and unstinting reward.’” [Quran 39:10]
metaphorical example the purpose of seeking refuge in Allah ﷻ from Satan):
“If the shepherd’s dog ever barks at you attempting to attack you, then do not engage it in a fight. Instead, turn to the shepherd
and seek his help for he will leash it and save y...
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When a person takes refuge in Allah ﷻ from the accursed Satan, He protects him and keeps away Satan’s harm and evil from reaching him.
He used to weep and say: “cry and if you cannot, try hard to.”
“When true fear of God is realized in your heart, all good things will come to you.”4
“Anyone who believes in God and the Last Day should heed this: God will find a way out for those who are mindful of Him, and will provide for them from an unexpected source; God will be enough for those who put their trust in Him. God achieves His purpose; God has set a due measure for everything.” [Quran 65:2-3]
Ibn al-Jawzi to this effect remarked: “If you repent and supplicate but are not answered, reflect on your condition, for perhaps your repentance has not been realized, therefore work toward completing it. Then supplicate, and do not tire of supplication, for perhaps it is in your best interest for the answer to be delayed, or for it not to be answered. In this way you accumulate rewards, and you will be answered through that which benefits you, and perhaps it is to your benefit that you do not get what you seek, but are given something better that replaces it.”5
Knowing this should bring joy and happiness to our hearts. “He has the keys to the Unseen: no one knows them but Him. He knows all that is in the land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowledge, nor is there a single grain in the darkness of the earth, or anything, fresh or withered, that is not written in a clear Record.” [Quran 6:59]
“Verily, I constantly renew my Islam until this very day, as up to now, I do not consider myself to have ever been a good Muslim.”
“Do not strut arrogantly about the earth: you cannot break it open, nor match the mountains in height.”
It was said: “How do we observe patience?” “In the same manner that we fast; completely certain that the adhān of Maghrib will eventually be called.”
“Patience is for the heart to not feel anger towards that which is destined and for the mouth to not not complain.”
“Don’t let your definition of success, failure or self-worth be anything other than your position with Him. And if you do this, you become unbreakable, because your handhold is unbreakable. You become unconquerable because your supporter can never be conquered. And you will never become empty because your source of fulfillment is unending and never diminishes.”
“The eye weeps and the heart grieves, but we say only what our Lord is pleased with.”9
“My biggest regret is that it took a man in suit to tell me that I am going to die, but Allah told me all my life and I did not believe him”
“The ship of your lifetime is approaching the coast of the graveyard. What is the matter with you that you are busy inside the ship trying to acquire goods?”11
“The Hereafter is traveling towards us, and this life is traveling away from us, so be from the children of the Hereafter and not from the children of this world. For today is action without reckoning, and tomorrow is reckoning without action.”
Ibn ʿUmar used to say, “If you survive till the evening, do not expect to be alive in the morning, and if you survive till the morning, do not expect to be alive in the evening, and take from your health for your sickness, and (take) from your life for your death.”
“O friend, the cloth from which your burial shroud will be cut may have already reached the market and yet you remain unaware.”
“Allah the Almighty said: I am as My servant thinks I am, I am with him when he makes mention of Me. If he makes mention of Me to himself, I make mention of him to Myself; and if he makes mention of Me in an assembly, I make mention of him in an assembly better than it. And if he draws near to Me an arm’s length, I draw near to him a cubit, and if he draws near to Me a cubit, I draw near to
him a fathom. And if he comes to Me walking, I go to him at speed.”
“The more you have good expectations of your Lord and hope in Him, the more you will rely on and trust in Him. This is why some explained true reliance and trust to be having good expectations of Allah. In reality, having good expectations of Him leads to relying on and trusting in Him, as it is unthinkable that one can trust in someone that he has bad expectations of or no hope in, and Allah knows best.”15
“He who is hostile to a friend of Mine I declare war against. My servant approaches Me with nothing more beloved to Me than what I have made obligatory upon him, and My servant keeps drawing nearer to Me with voluntary works until I love him. And when I love him, I am his hearing with which he hears, his sight with which he sees, his hand with which he seizes, and his foot with which he walks. If he asks me, I will surely give to him, and if he seeks refuge in Me, I will surely protect him.”16
“And the hereafter is better for you than the first (life).” [Quran 93:4] “Sin is inevitable Imān fluctuates Your Allah loves to forgive.
It is important to always return to Him–regardless of how many times we leave or how far we go. Turn back because you are welcome. Turn back, no matter how small the steps you take seem to be. Turn back because He will always be patient with you, even if you are impatient with yourself.”17
He is breaking you to heal you.
He allows His servant to taste the bitterness of the break before the sweetness of the mend.
does not break His believing servant except to mend him.
He does not withhold from him except t...
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does not test him (with hardship), except...
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“There is no joy for the one who does not bear sadness, there is no sweetness for the one who does not have patience, there is no delight for the one who does not suffer and there is no relaxation for the one who does not endure fatigue.”
“He who has tested the servant is the Most Wise, the Most Merciful and He did not test him with the affliction to destroy, punish or overwhelm him. Rather, the affliction is merely a test of his patience, his contentment with Allah and his faith. In addition, Allah wants to hear the servant’s pleas, supplications and humility before Him, his seeking refuge with Him, his heart’s humility before Him and his explaining his sadness to Him (alone).”18
“The most beloved people to Allah are those who are most beneficial to the people. The most beloved deed to Allah is to make a Muslim happy, or to remove one of his troubles, or to forgive his debt, or to feed his hunger. That I walk with a brother regarding a need is more beloved to me than that I seclude myself in this mosque in Medina for a month. Whoever swallows his anger, then Allah will
conceal his faults. Whoever suppresses his rage, even though he could fulfill his anger if he wished, then Allah will secure his heart on the Day of Resurrection. Whoever walks with his brother regarding a need until he secures it for him, then Allah the Exalted will make his footing firm across the bridge on the day when the footings are shaken.”
“Don’t assume bad of Allah, for by Allah, if you obey Him, He will make for you a source of relief and a way out, and if you are alone within your family and society, then Allah will accompany you in your loneliness.
He will strengthen
your heart, and make it firm with His guidance.” “He will give you (something) better than what was ...
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“Whoever exerts himself and seeks aid from Allah and adheres to seeking forgiveness and sacrificing, then most definitely Allah will give him from His goodness that which had never crossed his mind.”
“It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (may Allah’s peace be upon them all), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.”
single success you experience is a combination of two things: your effort and Allah’s help. When you do not put in enough effort, Allah does not give His baraka (blessing). And sometimes you might put in a lot of effort, but you may not see the result you expected. That, also, is Allah’s baraka.
The Quran teaches me that an incredibly wealthy man can be a failure (Pharaoh) and a homeless man can be successful (Prophet Ibrāhīm ). It teaches me that success has nothing to do with wealth and failure has nothing to do with poverty.
“Why are you sad?” Tell them truthfully, and say to them: I rarely make istighfār (asking Allah ﷻ for forgiveness) and I left reading the Quran.
“The strength of the heart returns when one repents!”
May Allah ﷻ make us of people who constantly make istighfār and read the Quran with contemplation.
“For the people that are out there that are sick or worried or stressed, I always say to you people, don’t worry. Allah will send you people that you never expected. If you really need someone, you just have to trust Allah and have tawakkul (trust and reliance) in Allah.”
“Do not forget the angel of death, for he does not forget you…”26
‘‘Indeed, those who came before you saw the Quran as personal letters from their Lord. So they would ponder over it by night and yearn for it by day.”28 “The Quran is not only a book of guidance; Allah wrote us a 632-page love letter.”
