Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH) said:
“The guidance [being invoked in Sūrah al-Fātiḥah] has another level, which is its final level. This is the guidance on the Day of Judgement to the path of Jannah. For there is a path [ṣirāṭ] that reaches Jannah.
Whomsoever is guided in this worldly life to the straight path of Allāh as espoused by His Messengers and His Books, will be guided [in the hereafter] to the straight path that leads to His Jannah—the place of His reward.
Imām Ibn al-Qayyim
It is the degree of stability that the slaves [of Allāh] have on the path that has been set forth for them …
Concerning the āyah in Sūrah al-Fātiḥah:
اهْدِنَا الصِّرَاطَ الْمُسْتَقِيمَ ﴿٦﴾
Guide us to the straight path (of beneficial knowledge coupled with righteous action).
[al-Fātiḥah, 1:6]
Al-Imām Ibn al-Qayyim (d. 751 AH) commented :
“It refers to two individual forms of guidance, true success cannot occur without them both. The first is to gain both general and detailed knowledge of the truth we were formerly ignorant of in order to allow that truth to inspire us and make us want to follow it, inwardly and outwardly. The second form of guidance is the creation of the willpower required to a…
Al-Imām Ibn Al-Qayyim said: “Allāh the Most High said:
ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا رَّجُلًا فِيهِ شُرَكَاءُ مُتَشَاكِسُونَ وَرَجُلًا سَلَمًا لِّرَجُلٍ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا ۚ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ ۚ بَلْ أَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٢٩﴾
‘Allāh presents an example: a slave owned by quarrelling partners and another belonging exclusively to one man – are they equal in comparison? Praise be to Allāh! But most of them do not know.’
[al-Zumar, 39:29]
This is a parable that Allāh has presented for the mushrik and the muwaḥḥid. As for the mushrik, it is as if he is a slave owned by a group [of maste…
Allāh says:
ضَرَبَ اللَّهُ مَثَلًا رَّجُلًا فِيهِ شُرَكَاءُ مُتَشَاكِسُونَ وَرَجُلًا سَلَمًا لِّرَجُلٍ هَلْ يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا ۚ ﴿٢٩﴾
“Allah presents an example: a slave owned by quarrelling partners and another belonging exclusively to one man – are they equal in comparison?”
[al-Zumar, 39:29]
>Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-Fawzān said [concerning this āyah]: “The mushrikūn [polytheists who associate partners with Allāh] have chosen to leave the worship of Allah alone, to whom their belongs no partners. [This worship] is the very reason for their creation and the only means to their happine…
The Islamic year consists of twelve months of which four are sacred.
Allāh said:
إِنَّ عِدَّةَ الشُّهُورِ عِندَ اللَّهِ اثْنَا عَشَرَ شَهْرًا فِي كِتَابِ اللَّهِ يَوْمَ خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ مِنْهَا أَرْبَعَةٌ حُرُمٌ ۚ ﴿٣٦﴾
“Indeed, there were twelve months from the beginning of time of which four are sacred.” [al-Tawbah, 9:36]
Rajab is not simply one of these twelve months; it is actually one of the four sacred months. The Messenger (ﷺ) said: “A year consists of twelve months of which four are sacred. Dhū al-Qaʿdah, Dhū al-Ḥijjah and Muḥarram are the three consecutive …
