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Give your zakat to a needy family who is struggling to pay their rent, is facing eviction, doesn’t have enough food, or is struggling with their basic needs. If you feel strongly about other causes, you can always use some of the rest of your own money rather than zakat.
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AMAR Reflections #2
Dear brothers and sisters, if you knew today that you would die in a few hours, what would you do? How would you spend your time? What would your salah look like? How would you make dua? How much Quran would you read? Every single second would count.
Our clocks are ticking and every moment matters. Acting before it is too late is a principle in our religion. Allah says in Surah An-nisa:
“Allah accepts the repentance of those who do evil in ignorance and then repent* soon after*. It is they to whom Allah will turn in forgiveness.”
Would you like to be a slave of Allah who is guided to hasten to repent after every sin until you meet Allah having sincerely repented? One who is at ease and content with the decree of Allah and one who sees acts of worship as an honour, one who Allah makes it easy for, who approaches worship full of enthusiasm.
If you would like to know one simple step you can take that requires little effort and no physical exertion to help you achieve this, ponder over the following statement.
Some of the great scholars mentioned, “Whomsoever is consistent in remembering death they will be honoured with three things:
1. The hastening of repentance
2. Contentment in all their affairs
3. Enthusiasm towards and during acts of worship
To be honoured with these three things is something one should truly strive for. To be a person who feels remorse for disobeying their Lord who has been so kind to them and granted them countless blessings, so they hasten to repent and avoid becoming among those who Allah says about them:
“Until, when death comes to one of them, he says: ‘My Lord, send me back,
so that I may do righteousness in what I left behind.’
But never! It is only a word he is saying…”
To be a person who is at ease and content with whatever Allah has decreed. Someone who may not possess much wealth, who may face trial after trial, yet still falls under the words of the Prophet ﷺ:
"Be content with what Allah has given you and you will be the richest of people."
Sunan Ibn Majah
And lastly, to be a person who rushes towards righteous deeds with passion and eagerness. One who finds joy and comfort in acts of worship. One who sees worship as their safe haven in this fleeting world. One who falls under the description Allah gives in the Quran:
"...and among them are those who are foremost in good deeds, by the permission of Allah..."
Remember death often, and you will be honoured with these three things.
May Allah make us among those whom He honours, may He facilitate all goodness for us, and may He fill our hearts with abundant love for Him. Ameen.
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My babies both 5yrs old are memorising the 6th and 7th juz of the Qur'an.
They are both smart and their love for the Qur'an? Enviable
Make the Qur'an the foundation for your kids and they'll excel at other things biidhnillah.
May Allah protect these ones and bless their knowledge
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On my way to visit a brother. He had called me before, asking about a baby bed. My family even prepared a few gifts for the little one.
Today, instead of carrying those gifts with joy, I carry the weight of news that breaks the heart. His baby returned to Allah in the hospital.
Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.
Moments like these shake us, reminding us how fragile this life is and how quickly it can change.
May Allah fill their hearts with patience and replace their pain with reward.
JazakAllahu khayran katheeran ya habeebi. May Allah ﷻ bless your wealth and make this a means of goodness for me and you.
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Umm al-Dardāʾ said :
Abū al-Dardāʾ entered while he was angry, so I said : “What has made you angry?”
He said: “By Allāh, I do not recognize anything among them from the matter of Muḥammad [ﷺ] except that they pray together [in congregation]”
كتاب الاعتصام للشاطبي (1/33)
Imagine Today’s Time
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Beautiful explanation why Du’a is delayed:
Ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله said,
“I think part of the test is when a believer supplicates and receives no response, and he repeats the dua for a long time and sees no sign of a response. He should realize that this is a test and needs patience.
What a person experiences of waswaas (whispers from shaytan) when the response is delayed is a sickness which needs medicine ? I have experienced this myself. A calamity befell me and I supplicated and did not see any response, and Iblees started to lay his traps. Sometimes he said:
“The generosity (of Allah) is abundant and He is not miserly, so why is there a delay?”
I said to him: Be gone, O cursed one, for I have no need of anyone to argue my case and I do not want you as a supporter! Then I told myself: Beware of going along with his whispers, for if there was no other reason for the delay except that Allah is testing you to see whether you will fight the enemy, that is sufficient wisdom.
My soul (nafs) said: How could you explain the delay in the response of Allah to your prayers for relief from this calamity? I said:
“It is proven with evidence that Allah, may He be glorified and exalted, is the Sovereign, and the Sovereign may withhold or give, so there is no point in objecting to Him.”
The wisdom behind that is proven in definitive evidence. I may think that something is good, but wisdom does not dictate it, but the reason for that may be hidden, just as a doctor may do things that appear outwardly to be harmful, intending some good purpose thereby. Perhaps this is something of that nature.
There may be an interest to be served by delay, and haste may be harmful. The Prophet ﷺ said:
“A person will be fine so long as he does not become impatient and says, I prayed but I did not receive any answer.??
The response may be withheld because of some fault in you. Perhaps there was something dubious in what you ate or your heart was heedless at the time when you said the dua, or your punishment is being increased by means of your need being withheld, because of some sin from which you have not repented sincerely.
So look for some of these reasons, so that you might achieve your aim. You should examine the intention behind this request, because attaining it may lead to more sin, or prevent you from doing some good, so withholding it is better.
Perhaps losing what you have missed out on will cause you to turn to Allah and getting it will distract you from Him. This is obvious, based on the fact that were it not for this calamity you would not have turned to Him, because the real calamity is what distracts you from Him, but what makes you stand before Him is good for you and is in your best interests.
If you ponder these things you will focus on what is more beneficial for you, such as correcting a mistake or seeking forgiveness or standing before Allah and beseeching Him, and forget about what you have missed out on.”
[Source: Sayd al-Khaatir [59-60]
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Al-Hasan Al-Baṣri رحمه الله said:
When a man proposed to a woman during Jāhiliyyah, they would ask: “What is his lineage, and what is her lineage?”
When Islam came, they began to ask: “What is his religion, and what is her religion?”
But today you say: “What is his wealth, and what is her wealth?!”
📚 بهجة المجالس لابن عبد البر (ص: ١٨١)
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Sheikh Salih Al Usaymi حفظه mentions a story of a man he met who lived in germany for thirty years but only knew a few words of german and when the Sheikh asked him,
“How did you live there for so long but didn’t learn the language?”
The Man responded and said, “if a person doesn’t wish to learn something, than he will never learn it”
The Sheikh mentions this story to his students in order to help them understand an extremely important point, if a person does not build a love for ilm and has no desire to seek it than he will never learn
When we look at the lives of the Salaf, we can see an extremely intense desire in them to learn to the point where some of them would leave their families for years to travel for ilm
A story that sums up that a person’s desire is the secret to them gaining knowledge:
Muhammad ibn Abi Hatim al-Bukhari reported that he asked Imam al-Bukhari:
هَلْ مِنْ دوَاءٍ يشربُهُ الرَّجُلُ، فينتفعُ بِهِ لِلْحفظِ؟
"Is there a medicine that a person can drink to benefit in memorization?"
Imam al-Bukhari replied: "I do not know." Then he turned towards me and said:
لا أعلم شيئا أنفع للحفظ من نهمة الرجل ، ومداومة النظر.
“I do not know of anything that is better for memory than a burning desire and constantly looking at the thing you are memorizing.”
[سير أعلام النبلاء ج١٠ ص٨٦]
Something extremely Important we can take from Imam Bukharis statement here is that there is no secret to knowledge, the only actual “secret” there is the desire of a person and the effort they put in
As المتنبي said:
وَكُلُّ طَريقٍ أَتاهُ الفَتى عَلى قَدَرِ الرِجلِ فيهِ الخُطا
Whatever the way you choose .. results are based on your determination
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