The Shipwreck

 

The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island ….

He prayed feverishly for Allaah to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect him from the elements and to store his few possessions.

But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, the smoke rolling up to the sky. The worst had happened; everything was lost. He was stunned with grief and anger.

“Allaah, how could you do this to me!” he cried.

Relaxation is in Paradise !

      

Ibn Al Juwziee said:

‘Whoever does not read the stories of the Salaf and the path that they tread, he can never tread that path.  It is befitting for a person to know and understand that the nature of an individual (character) is a thief.  If a person leaves his nature with the people of his time, his nature will steal from theirs and he will become similar to them.  But if he reads into the lives of the Salaf his nature will join theirs and he will learn from their character….(Telblees Iblees)’

The following are just a few examples from the past and present day scholars informing of

Increase of Provision through Forgiveness

A.      Hasan al Basri (Rahimahullaah) mentioned:

That a man complained to him concerning drought so it was said seek forgiveness from Allaah, another complained about another matter so it was said seek forgiveness from Allaah, another complained about lack of rain for his land so it was said seek forgiveness from Allaah another complained of no offspring so it was said seek forgiveness from Allaah, then he (Hasan al Basri) recited, 

Purifiying the hearts

Fawaa'id: Points of Benefit by Imaam Ibnul Qayyim al Jawziyyah 

"There is no doubt that the heart becomes covered with rust, just as metal dishes-silver, & their like- become rusty. So the rust of the heart is polished with dhikr (remembrance of Allaah), for dhikr polishes the heart until it becomes like a shiny mirror. 

However, when dhikr is abandoned, the rust returns, & when it commences then the heart again begins to be cleansed. 

Thus the heart becoming rusty is due to two matters: 

Sins & Ahafah (neglecting the remembrance of Allaah). 

Likewise, it is cleansed & polished by two things: 

Istighfaar (seeking Allaah's forgiveness) & dhikr."

Reality of Eemaan

Al-Fudayl bin Iyaad said:

لا يبلغ العبد حقيقة الإيمان حتى يعد البلاء نعمة والرخاء مصيبة وحتى لا يحب أن يحمد على عبادة الله

A servant does not reach (taste, acquire) the reality of eemaan until he considers tribulation (calamity) to be a blessing and comfort (opulence) to be a calamity, and until he loves not that he should be praised for worship of Allaah.

Al-Siyar of al-Dhahabi (8/434).

The Expiation for Backbiting

by The Albaani Blog

Mujaahid, (may Allaah have mercy on him), said,

“The expiation for eating your brother’s flesh [i.e., backbiting him] is that you praise him and supplicate for goodness for him.”

Mowsu’ah Ibn Abid-Dunyaa, 4/418.