The people of knowledge from the salaf have mentioned the various types of actions people can perform without being aware of the true meaning of their actions. An example of this would be good deeds that many people do, such as giving charity, maintaining family ties, being kind to people and so forth. Likewise, avoiding the oppression of others, or not speaking ill about them, all of which a person can do sincerely for Allāh’s sake, however without yearning for His reward in the next life. Rather all he hopes for is that Allāh will protect his wealth and his family, or cause it (his wealth)…
Verily, Allāh is not ashamed to set forth a parable even of a mosquito or so much more when it is bigger than it. And as for those who believe, they know that it is the Truth from their Lord, but as for those who disbelieve, they say; “What did Allāh intend by this parable?” By it He misleads many and many He guides thereby. And He misleads thereby only those who are rebellious, disobedient to Allāh. Those who break Allāh’s Covenant after ratifying it and sever what Allāh has ordered to be joined and do mischief on earth, it is they who are the losers.
Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:26–27
The mus…
Whenever īmān enters the heart and one makes his whole affair sincerely for Allāh’s sake, Allāh will indeed repel and defend one from all types of evil and vulgarity because of one’s īmān and sincerity due to Allāh’s statement, “Thus it was, that We might turn away from him evil and illegal sexual intercourse. Surely, he was one of Our sincere slaves.
Al-ʿAllāmah ʿAbd al-Raḥmān ibn Nāṣir al-SaʿdīRegarding the last āyah of Sūrah Yūsuf (ʿalayhi al-Salām) wherein Allāh subḥānahu wa taā’la says,
“Indeed in their stories, there is a lesson for men of understanding”
[Sūrah Yūsuf, 12:111]
This stor…
The Tafsīr of Sūrah al-Nabāʾ (Sūrah 78)
An emphasised and a confirmed warning for those who deny this Day that they will certainly come to know that the Day of Resurrection is true. Allāh shows His abilities to produce the Signs of this Day and He tells about its magnitude in the following verses so that the people contemplate and realise that Allāh, Who is able to bring about these Signs, is All-Able to bring life to the Dead as well as Resurrection.
Shaykh Ṣāliḥ al-ṢāliḥAll praise is due to Allāh, we praise Him, and seek His help and forgiveness. We seek refuge in Allāh, Most High, from t…
So what is the correct manhaj (methodology) which is obligatory to traverse, if we desire good for ourselves and for the Ummah of Muḥammad ﷺ ? Is it concentrating upon siyaasah (politics)? Ibn Masʿūd has explained that this is not what brought goodness to the Ummah
Shaykh ʿAbdullāh ibn Ṣāliḥ al-ʿUbaylānrImām al-Bukhārī (d.256H) – raḥimahullāh – said:
“Chapter: There will not come a time, except that after it will be more evil than it.”2
[He then said with his isnād]: From Zubayr Ibn ‘Adee, who said: We came to Anas Ibn Mālik and complained to him about (the oppression of) al-Ḥajjaaj. So he…
The way of the disbelievers was to invent certain characteristics that they thought a prophet should have and then show how the Prophet was lacking in these. However in this they were wondering aimlessly, not able to find a set of characteristic that they could all settle on as has preceded in the previous verse.
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shanqītī[Compiled from the tafsīrs of al-Tabarī, al-Qurṭabī, ibn Kathīr, al-Shawkānī, as-Saʿdee and al-Shanqītī, may Allāh have mercy on them all.]
Blessed be He Who sent down the Criterion to His Servant so that he may be a Warner to the w…
The saying of the Exalted, ‘You Alone we ask for help’: meaning that we do not seek aid from anyone but You because the command/affair in it’s totality is under Your control Alone, no one else has even an atoms weight of control over it.
Al-ʿAllāmah Muḥammad al-Amīn al-Shanqītī
Sūrah al-Baqarah, 1:20 | 15 pages
Sūrah al-Baqarah, 2:30 | 15 pages
Sūrah al-Baqarah, 55-173 | 31 pages
“Whoever recites the words, ‘Glory be to Allāh and His is the praise,’ will have a palm tree planted for him in the Garden.”
Jāmiʿ al-Tirmidhī no. 3464
The Excellence of the Remberance of Allāh
Shaykh al-Islām Ibn Taymiyyah (d.728 AH) – raḥimahullāh – wrote, “Remembrance of Allāh is to the heart what water is to fish. What happens to a fish when it is taken out of water?” Imām Shams al-Dīn Ibn al-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah (d.751 AH) – raḥimahullāh – wrote about nearly eighty benefits that come with the remembrance (dhikr) of Allāh in his book al-Wābil al-Ṣayyib. We shall quote some of them her…
And then Ibn Bāz reminded King of an oath he made before his ascension, saying “On this occasion I would like to remind you of your promise to the council in your letter of 16/7/1401 (May, 1981) of the determination of the government to set up an Islamic financial agency.
Taken from ‘A Question of Interest: the Paralysis of Saudi Banking’ by P.W. Wilson (pp.186-188):
The Asharq Al-Awsat article was just SAMA’s [Saudi al-ʿArabīan Monetary Agency] opening parry…the agency again tried to question Islamic banking by allowing one of its employees, [X], to question the ulema’s stand on in…
