Video: Advice in these times of Trials and Tribulations – Shaykh Fawzaan
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Utilise the Dunya for Fulfilling the Purpose of Your Creation – Shaykh Uthaymeen
Shaykh Uthaymeen (rahimahullah),
We are created for the purpose of worshipping Allāh alone and everything upon the earth has been created for us [i.e. to aid us in this purpose and for lawful enjoyment].
هُوَ الَّذِي خَلَقَ لَكُم مَّا فِي الْأَرْضِ جَمِيعًا
He it is Who created for you all that is on earth. (Al-Baqarah: 29)
And amazing it is that nowadays our people busy themselves with what has been created for them at the expense of what they were created for. This is [tantamount] to foolishness – that they are busying themselves with that which was created for them at the expense of something which they were created for (and if this purpose is fulfilled will lead them to the Pleasure of their Lord, Inshā Allāh t’āla).
An excerpt from Shaykh Uthaymeen’s Tafsir of Surah adh-Dhaariyat, taken from the printed book ‘Tafsir Al-Hujurat to Al-Hadid’ pg 168
The Great Benefit Received By Those Who Begin The Day and Reach The Evening Whilst Their Foremost Concern Is to Seek The Pleasure of Allaah
In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy
If a person begins the day and reaches the evening, whilst his [foremost] concern is [to obey or seek the pleasure of Allaah], Allaah [Glorified be He and free is He from all imperfections] will fulfil all his needs, take care of everything that worries him, [free his heart from other things and busy it with] love of Allaah, [preoccupy] his tongue with remembrance of Allaah and His limbs with acts of obedience to Allaah.
And if he begins the day and reaches the evening whilst his [foremost] concern is the worldly life, Allaah will make him carry the displeasure of his worries and griefs, leave him to himself, preoccupy his heart with love of the creation instead of love of Allaah, [preoccupy] his tongue with remembrance of the people instead of remembrance of Allaah, [preoccupy] his limbs with obedience to [people] by serving them and being busy in their service, instead of being obedient to Allaah; so he toils in their service just like the bellows that blows and squeezes for the benefit of others. Everyone who turns away from servitude to Allaah, obedience to Allaah and love of Allaah, he will be afflicted with servitude to a created thing, love of it and serving it. Allaah [The Exalted] said: [ وَمَن يَعْشُ عَن ذِكْرِ الرَّحْمَٰنِ نُقَيِّضْ لَهُ شَيْطَانًا فَهُوَ لَهُ قَرِينٌ– And whosoever turns away [blinds himself] from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent [Allaah], We appoint for him Shaitan [Satan – devil] to be a Qareen [an intimate companion] to him. [Surah Az-Zukhruf. Aayah 36]
Source: An Excerpt from ‘Al-Fawaa’id’ page 134-135. Slightly paraphrased
You are a Servant of Allāh or a Servant of Shaytān – Shaykh Fawzān
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Shaykh Al-Fawzān (hafidahullāh) said,
“The most noble of actions is worshipping Allāh (The Mighty & Majestic) alone; that you are an [obedient or submissive] servant of Allāh. Whosoever is not a servant of Allāh, he becomes a servant of Shaytān. He is a servant in all situations, either he is a servant of Allāh – worshipping Allāh alone and his heart attached to (the worship of) Allāh; or he is a servant of Shaytān. There is no way out of [these two types of] servitude.”
Shaykh Fawzān’s explanation of Igāthatul Lahfān, 1439-07-01
The Sin of Accepting False Judgement In One’s Favour And Pleading On Behalf of a Treacherous Person- [By Imaam As-Sadi (rahimahullaah)]
In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy
And eat up not one another’s property unjustly [in any illegal way e.g. stealing, robbing, deceiving, etc.], nor give bribery to the rulers [judges before presenting your cases] that you may knowingly eat up a part of the property of others sinfully. [Surah Al-Baqarah Aayah 188]
Seeking After Noble Characteristics Necessitates That One Diverts His Attention From The Possessions of The People – [A Short Faa’idah From Shaikh Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah)]
In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy
It is an aspect of having a high aspiration to [acquire noble characteristics, dignity etc] that a person does not place his eyes on what is in the hands of the people [i.e. he is not coveteous]. Some of the people have a certain [manner] of asking for wealth: If he finds something he likes in the possession of [another] person, he gets hold of it in his hand and starts moving it about, saying: “How nice [or beautiful] this is!” “MaaShaaAllaah!” “Where did you buy it?” “Can it be found in the market.” The reason behind] all this is so that it is given to him, for indeed the generous person might become shy and say: “Indeed, he [i.e. the person asking this question] did not ask, except so that I say, “Take it.”
This person – the one who places his eyes [on other people’s possessions] or asks indirectly – lowers the status of the student of knowledge and that of others.
Source: Sharh Hilyati Taalibil Ilm’. Pages 164-165. slightly paraphrased
‘Whomsoever performs ghusl for a (deceased) Muslim and conceals (his affairs), he will be forgiven 40 times…” hadeeth & Commentary Sh. Albani
The messenger of Allāh (sallallāhu alaihi wa salam) said,
‘Whomsoever performs ghusl for a (deceased) Muslim and conceals (his affairs), he will be forgiven 40 times…”
To attain this reward there are two conditions
1. That he conceal the dead person, i.e. he does not talk or disclose that which he has seen from disliked/unpleasant affairs (related to the deceased).
2. That he hopes and desires by way of washing the dead Muslim, the Face of Allāh, not seeking a reward or thanks or anything from the affairs of the worldly life.
Ahkhaam Al-Janaaiz Shaykh Albaani pg 69.
Hadeeth is Saheeh upon the conditions of Muslim
What Are the Signs of a Responsive Heart and Unresponsive Heart? Shaykh Uthaymīn
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
Shaykh Uthaymīn was asked:
What are the signs of a responsive heart? And the signs of an unresponsive heart?
Shaykh Uthaymīn:
A sign of a responsive heart, is that it humbles itself to the remembrance of Allāh.
And the sign of an unresponsive heart is that it is not affected by what it hears, from the verses of Allah.
Fatāwa Su’āl ‘ala al-Hātif Vol.2 pg 596-597
Rejecting The Truth – Shaykh Uthaymīn
Shaykh Uthaymīn (rahimahullaah) explained the outcome for those who reject the truth, based on the tafsir of the following verse:
بَلْ كَذَّبُوا بِالْحَقِّ لَمَّا جَاءَهُمْ فَهُمْ فِي أَمْرٍ مَرِيجٍ
Nay, but they have denied the truth (this Qurān) when it has come to them, so they are in a confused state (can not differentiate between right and wrong).
Sura Qāf: 5
Shaykh Uthaymīn:
“Likewise every person who rejects the truth the first time, then he should know that he will be trialed with doubts and uncertainty in accepting the truth in the future. Therefore it is obligatory upon us when we hear that this thing is the truth, that we say: “we hear and obey.”
Tafsīr Al-Hujurāt – Al-Hadīd 89-90
Allāh Replaces Sins with Good Deeds When You Repent – Shaykh Uthaymīn
Shaykh Uthaymīn (rahimahullāh) in explanation of verse 12 in Al-Hujurāt:
Repentance (tawbah) from the servant is to move from disobeying Allāh to obeying Him. And repentance from Allāh means that Allāh accepts the repentance of the servant and subsequently exchanges his sins for good deeds.
Shaykh Uthaymīn’s Tafsīr Sūrah al- Hujurāt – Al-Hadīd Pg. 50