Little barakah in your time??

Advice from the Salaf for the one who finds little barakah in his time

One of the Salaf once said, "Every time I increased upon my (daily) portion of Qur'aan, my time would increase in barakah (blessings). I kept on increasing up until my daily portion reached ten Juz' (a third of the Qur'aan)!"

Ibraaheem bin 'Abdil-Waahid al-Maqdisee said, whilst advising ad-Diyaa' al-Maqdisee who intended to go out on a journey to seek knowledge:

"Recite much Qur'aan and don't abandon it, for verily that which you want to learn will become easier in accordance with how much you recite."

 
Ad-Diyaa' said, "So, I noticed this and experienced it much. If I recited a lot of Qur'aan then listening to many ahadeeth and writing all of them down would be easy for me, and if I didn't recite then it would become difficult."

  Source: Dheelu Tabaqaatil-Hanaabilah of Ibn Rajab (3/205)

Which of our deeds remain???

"What is done solely for Allaah remains"

- Imaam Maalik (رحمه الله)

The only sufficient provision to the Hereafter is Taqwa

Man needs sufficient provision on his journey

“Man needs sufficient provisions on his journey through life, but the only sufficient provision to the Hereafter is Taqwa (piety, fear of Allaah). Therefore, one should strive hard to be patient while observing Taqwa. Otherwise, he will cry, when it is time to leave, ‘My Lord, send me back’, but it will be said to him, ‘No’. The heedless should therefore wake up from his lazy trek through the stages of life. This especially should be the case, since as he travels, Allaah shows him His signs, Allaah brings fear to His slaves by these signs, to keep them from deviating from the Straight Path & correct religion. He whose means of journeying deviate him from the Straight Path, even though he witnesses the Signs of Allaah that make him afraid, should rush to return to Allaah by abandoning what made him deviate from the Path, all the while feeling remorse of his errors”

 [‘Iddatus-Sabirun, by Imam Ibnul-Qayyim (rahimahullaah), Page 330]