Narrated by Abū Hurayrah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Ṣakhr (may Allāh be pleased with him) who said:1
I heard the Messenger of Allāh (ﷺ) say: ‘Whatever I have forbidden you from, refrain from it completely. Whatever I have ordered you with, carry out to the very best of your ability. For the nations, before you were only destroyed because of their copious amount of questions, and their disagreements with their prophets.’
Narrated by al-Bukhārī and MuslimAl-Ḥāfiẓ Ibn Rajab [d. 795 AH] said:
The meaning of this is that everything that a Muslim could conceivably need relating to his dīn, without a dou…
The following collection of benefits describe and teach the three different rulings of Allāh.
If your strength [of understanding] is deficient to where you cannot comprehend these words, then contemplate the words of ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb [رضي الله عنه] when he was reprimanded for fleeing from a plague [that had consumed a people in his time]. It was said to him: ‘Do you seek emancipation from the ordainment of Allāh?’ to which he replied: ‘We flee from the ordainment of Allāh to another of His ordainments.’
Imām Ibn al-QayyimThe Three Types of Rulings of Allāh and the State of a Submissive…
Narrated by ʿAbdullāh ibn ʿAmr [رضي الله عنهما] who said: The Messenger of Allāh [ﷺ] said: ‘Four [attributes] together describe an unadulterated hypocrite. Whomsoever possesses but one of these characteristics indeed possesses a trait of hypocrisy until he is able to abandon it: if he is entrusted with something, he breaks that trust. If he speaks, he lies. If he enters into an agreement, he violates its terms. If he has a disagreement with someone, he behaves immorally.’ Narrated by Al-Bukhārī and Muslim.
Explanation:
Shaykh ʿAbd Al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir Al-Saʿdī [d. 1376 AH] said:
The telling o…
Al-Imām Abū al-Farj Jamāl al-Dīn ibn al-Jawzī [d. 597 AH] said:
The cure for losing a loved one is through eight ways. The first of them is to know that [this loss] was predestined to occur. Allāh says:
مَا أَصَابَ مِن مُّصِيبَةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَلَا فِي أَنفُسِكُمْ إِلَّا فِي كِتَابٍ مِّن قَبْلِ أَن نَّبْرَأَهَا ۚ إِنَّ ذَٰلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ يَسِيرٌ ﴿٢٢﴾
‘No disaster strikes upon the earth or among yourselves except that it is in a register before We bring it into being’
[Al-Ḥadīd 57:22]
And then [Allāh] the Exalted said:
لِّكَيْلَا تَأْسَوْا عَلَىٰ مَا فَاتَكُمْ ﴿٢٣﴾
‘In order that you n…
Imām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shawkānī [d. 1250 AH] related from Imām Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad al-Qurṭubī [d. 671 AH] who said:
It is necessary [for the one who memorises the Qurʾān] to learn the rulings contained therein, as this will facilitate him becoming acquainted with Allāh’s intent and what He has made obligatory on him. Thus, he is able to derive benefit from what he reads and act upon what he recites.
How detestful is it that a person carries the Qurʾān [through memorisation], reciting its laws and rulings without having to consult it, but remains completely oblivious to the meaning of what…
