Intentions

It is reported from Yahya bin Abee Katheer that he said: 

"Learn [to perfect] your intentions, because your intentions will help you reach what your actions would never be able to reach." 

[Jaami' al-'Uloom wal-Hikam]

Wastage of Time & Corruption of the Heart

“Be cautious of (the) mixing with a person which will cause wastage of time and corruption of the heart. For verily, when time is wasted and the heart is corrupted, all of the affairs of the servant will become ruined, and he will be of those about whom Allaah, the Exalted, said:

وَلَا تُطِعْ مَنْ أَغْفَلْنَا قَلْبَهُ عَن ذِكْرِنَا وَاتَّبَعَ هَوَاهُ وَكَانَ أَمْرُهُ فُرُطًا

.. and obey not him whose heart We have made heedless of Our Remembrance, one who follows his own lusts and whose affair (deeds) has been lost. (Al-Kahf 18:28)”

- Ibnul-Qayyim al-Jawziyyah. 

The Path to Guidance, page 9. Refer to Chapter 13: Ibn al-Qayyim on Making Use of One’s Time in Changing Evil into Good.

If a woman from the women of Jannah were to appear ..

Upon the authority of Anas Ibn Maalik (RadhiAllaahu ‘anhu) who said that the Messenger of Allaah  (sallAllaahu 'alayhi wa sallam) said: 

“..If a woman from the women of Jannah were to appear in this world, that which is between (the heavens and the earth) would be filled with her (beautiful) fragrance.. and they would illuminate that which is between the heavens and the earth.. the scarf that is on her head is better than the world and that which is upon it!”

(Collected By Tirmidhi (1651) and declared ‘Saheeh’ by Sheikh Al Albaani in Saheeh Sunan At Tirmidhi)

Have you then no sense?

 

وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّن شَيْءٍ فَمَتَاعُ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتُهَا وَمَا عِندَ اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ وَأَبْقَى أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

“And whatever you have been given is an enjoyment of the life of (this) world and its adornment, and that (Hereafter) which is with Allâh is better and will remain FOREVER. Have you then no sense?”

(Al-Qasas 28:60) 

Posted from Dammaj, Yemen 

Women Whose Menstruation Finishes at the End of the Night?

Sheikh Uthaimeen, (may Allaah have mercy on him), said,

“Some women’s periods finish at the end of the night and they know that they have become clean but they don’t fast that day under the assumption that if they do not take a ghusl their fast will not be correct – but that is not the case, their fast is correct even if they didn’t take a ghusl except after the emergence of Fajr."”

(Fiqhul-Ibaadaat, p. 254.)