Imām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shawkānī [d. 1255 AH] said [concerning government employed scholars receiving income for their occupation]:
What could reasonably prevent them from taking what they are deserving of from payment? Has this sharīʿah become so narrow that there should be nothing set aside for the likes of them? Or has the legislator obligated upon them that they travel incalculable distances, spend their entire days and nights [in the pursuit of knowledge] without compensation of any kind? This pure sharīʿah is above such a legislation, or that it should make such a thing obligatory on…
Effects of Evil: Prevention from Acts of Obedience
Effects of Evil: Darkness of the Heart
Effects of Evil: Weakness of the Heart and Body
Effects of Evil: Shortening of One’s Lifespan
Effects of Evil: Sinning Begets More Sinning
Effects of Evil: Weakening the Heart’s Desire for Goodness
Effects of Evil: Sinfulness and Shamelessness
Effects of Evil: Dulling the Mind
Effects of Evil: Trivialisation of Sin
Effects of Evil: The Despicable Nature of the Sinner
Effects of Evil: Removal of Blessings and the Spread of Corruption
Effects of Evil: The Loss of Protective Jealous…
Allāh says:
وَأَقْسَمُوا بِاللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمَانِهِمْ ۙ لَا يَبْعَثُ اللَّهُ مَن يَمُوتُ ۚ بَلَىٰ وَعْدًا عَلَيْهِ حَقًّا وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ﴿٣٨﴾ لِيُبَيِّنَ لَهُمُ الَّذِي يَخْتَلِفُونَ فِيهِ وَلِيَعْلَمَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا أَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا كَاذِبِينَ ﴿٣٩﴾
‘And they swear by Allah their strongest oaths [that] Allāh will not resurrect one who dies. But yes – [it is] a true promise [binding] upon Him, but most of the people do not know. [It is] so He will make clear to them [the truth of] that wherein they differ and so those who have disbelieved may know that…
Allāh says:
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تُقَدِّمُوا بَيْنَ يَدَيِ اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ۖ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّ اللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ ﴿١﴾
‘O you who have believed, do not put [yourselves] before Allāh and His Messenger but fear Allāh.’
[Al-Ḥujurāt 49:1]
Imām Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751 AH] said [concerning this verse]:
That is, do not speak until he has spoken, and do not take action until he has commanded you to do so. Some of the pious predecessors used to say: No action, however small, should occur except that two articles are addressed, why and how?
That is: Why have you taken…
Although these three things are used to identify a person, they achieve this differently:
Name
The word that is used to identify you from birth and does not usually contain the word Ab or Umm or any form of praise or insult, like ʿAbd al-Raḥmān, Ḥamzah, Yaḥyá, ʿĀʾishah, Laylá.
Laqab (Nickname)
Any word that usually succeeds your name in Arabic and contains some sort of praise or insult, like tall in the laqab tall Uways [i.e. Uways al-Ṭawīl], and blind in the laqab Blind Muḥammad or Muḥammad the Blind [i.e. Muḥammad al-Aʿmash]. Utilising the first type of laqab is allowed; however, utilising…
In the [sunan] of al-Nasāʾī and others from the ḥadīth of Maʿqal ibn Yasār al-Muzanī who narrated that the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم) said: ‘Read sūrah Yāsīn for your dead.’1 There is a possibility that the proper application [of this reading] should be for a person who is dying before they pass away.
Imām Ibn al-Qayyim [d. 751 AH] 2Similar to it is [the Prophet (صلى الله عليه وسلم)’s] saying: ‘Repeat for your dead the utterance of [the shahādah]: there is nothing worshipped in truth except for Allāh.’ There is another possibility that the ḥadīth refers to reading [the Qurʾān] next to the g…
The Prophet (ﷺ) said: the parable of the one who remembers Allāh and one who does not is like the living and the dead.
Narrated by al-Bukhārī and MuslimImām Muḥammad ibn ʿAlī al-Shawkānī [d. 1250 AH] said:1
This ḥadīth has been narrated by al-Bukhārī and Muslim from the aḥadīth of Abū Mūsá [al-Ashʿarī] (may Allāh be pleased with him). This is al-Bukhārī’s wording of the ḥadīth in the chapter entitled ‘Invocations’ and Muslim mentioned it in the chapter of ‘Ṣalāh’ from his [book] ‘Al-Ṣaḥīḥ’ with the wording:
‘The likeness of a house in which Allāh is remembered and a house devoid of Allāh’s…
