The likeness of the believer...

Stand firm against evil thoughts!

"Stand firm against evil thoughts... for if you fail to do so, they will become ideas, if you do not, they will become desires, so fight against them. If you do not, they will become a form of determination and intention. If you do not resist, they will become actions, and if you do not follow them up with their opposite, they will become habits that will be hard to quit."

(Imaam Ibnul-Qayyim – Al-Fawa’id: A collection of wise sayings pg.54)

No Soul shall bear the sin of another

  

وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى وَإِن تَدْعُ مُثْقَلَةٌ إِلَى حِمْلِهَا لَا يُحْمَلْ مِنْهُ شَيْءٌ وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا قُرْبَ

"And no bearer of burdens shall bear another's burden, and if one heavily laden calls another to (bear) his load, nothing of it will be lifted even though he be near of kin."

(Fatir 35:18)

 --- Meaning: And no soul shall bear the burden of sin of another, and if a soul heavily laden with sin calls someone else to bear its sins, nothing of it will be lifted even though he be near of kin.

Sheikh `Abdur-Rahmaan ibn Naasir as-Sa‟dee said in his Tafseer of the Aayah:

And the last meaning is indicated by what He mentioned after it, in His Saying:

وَلَا تَزِرُ وَازِرَةٌ وِزْرَ أُخْرَى

"And no soul shall bear the burden of sin of another."

--- meaning: on the Day of Resurrection everyone shall be recompensed for his own deeds, and no one shall carry the sins of anyone else..

"And if a soul heavily laden with sin calls someone else to bear its sins.."

--- i.e. a soul  weighed down with sins and evil deeds: if it calls on someone to take on some of its sins.

Things that are hated during the salaah

Sheikh Saleh al Fawzaan حفظه الله

Advice for Fathers with their Children

Ibnul Qayyim aj-Jawzeeyah (d.751 A.H.)  رحمه الله said:

‘Allaah’s advice for fathers with their children precedes advice for children with their fathers.

So whoever was careless and negligent of educating his son, and leaves off benefiting him and leaving him useless, then he has been evil to him, extremely evil.

Indeed most children being corrupt is due to their fathers, and then being neglectful of them.

Them leaving their education of the Faraa'id (obligations) and the Sunnan (practices of the Sunnah) of the religion, so they caused them to be lost when they were young. Then the fathers did not benefit from them when they were older.

Just like some fathers held it to be shameful that their children were disobedient, so the child says, O my father you showed disobedience to me when I was young,  so now I’m being disobedient to you now that I am older. You caused me to be lost when I was a boy,  so I caused you to be lost in your old age.’

[From 'Tuhfat al-Mowdood bi Ahkaam al-Mowlood' pg.387]

Declare the Islaamic State in your Home first - Sheikh al-Albani

Sheikh Al-Albani  :رحمه الله

"We should not think about how we should drive out the Jews from Palestine. No! We should think of how we are declaring the Islaamic state in our own hearts. When will you be able to declare an Islaamic country in your little home?

The majority of those who shout for an Islaamic law in the world have neither an Islaamic law in their own homes, in themselves, their sons, daughters or their wives. The one who has nothing can't give anything.

I assume that I have clarified what you found unclear and that I do not support the intifada since it is not based upon the verse:

 إِن تَنصُرُوا اللَّهَ يَنصُرْكُمْ وَيُثَبِّتْ أَقْدَامَكُمْ
"If you help (in the cause of) Allâh, He will help you, and make your foothold firm."

(Muhammad 47:7)

(Silsilat-ul-Huda wan-Nur (352)

Value of Tawheed...

Sheikh Saleh al-Fawzaan حفظه الله

 The value of Health is not known except to

the one who has experienced illness...

The value of light is not known except to

the one who has fallen into darkness...

The value of water is not known except to

the one who has experienced thirst...

The value of food is not known except to

the one who has experienced hunger...

The value of safety & security is not known

except to the one who has seen fear...

(Similarly...) the value of Tawheed is not

known except to the one who has

knowledge & understanding of Shirk to

avoid it..

Reactions to Calamity

Q: What is the ruling on one who becomes discontented when he is afflicted by calamity?

A: In times of calamity, people divide into four different levels:

The First Level: Discontent and there are different types of discontent:

1. In the heart, as if he is angry with his Lord, and so he rails against what Allāh has ordained for him, and this is forbidden and could even lead to disbelief. Allāh says:

وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَعْبُدُ اللَّهَ عَلَى حَرْفٍ فَإِنْ أَصَابَهُ خَيْرٌ اطْمَأَنَّ بِهِ وَإِنْ أَصَابَتْهُ فِتْنَةٌ انقَلَبَ عَلَى وَجْهِهِ خَسِرَ الدُّنْيَا وَالْآخِرَةَ ذَلِكَ هُوَ الْخُسْرَانُ الْمُبِينُ

“And among mankind is he who worships Allaah as it were upon the edge (i.e. in doubt): if good befalls him, he is content therewith; but if a trial befalls him he turns back on his face (i.e. reverts to disbelief after embracing Islam). He loses both this world and the Hereafter.”

(Al-Hajj 22:11)

2. That it is spoken, such as invoking woe, destruction and the like and this is forbidden.

Beg Allaah to Forgive You!

وَتُوبُوا إِلَى اللَّهِ جَمِيعًا أَيُّهَا الْمُؤْمِنُونَ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ

"And all of you beg Allaah to forgive you, O believers, that you may become successful!"

[An-Nur 24:31]

Sheikh Uthaimeen رحمه الله says: 

"This verse shows that Repentance is an act deemed compulsory upon every mature, sane individual, because of the order entailed in this Verse. The Sheikh points out, that merely saying the words like Ya Allaah Agfirhlee (Oh Allaah forgive me), but at the same time persisting upon a sin or sins, and refusing to give up this sin, then this form of Tawbah will not benefit the individual and is at the same time mocking Allaah the Most High." 

(Sharh Riyaad'us Saaliheen, Chapter of Tawbah vol.1, pg.62-63)

Ibnul Qayyim رحمه الله says: