Why Recite Ayatul Kursi after salaah & before sleeping?

Question: A listener asks (this was on the radio), with regards to reciting Ayatul-Kursi: Is it reported that the Messenger of Allaah (صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم) used to recite it in the morning and evenings?

Answer: Yes, the Messenger صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم encouraged us to recite it when going to sleep and after every obligatory prayer. When we recite it when going to sleep, it is a means of protection from the Shaitaan. Likewise, from the means of entering Paradise is that one recites it after every obligatory prayer, after he makes the tasleem (saying Asalaamualaykum wa rahmatullaah to the right and then the left). After one recites the other prescribed remembrances (after salaah), he recites the Ayatul-Kursi.

Evidence for the one seeking the TRUTH...

 

“The person who is seeking the truth, one evidence will be enough for him. A person who is upon their desires, a thousand clues will still not be clear for him.” 

Imâm al-Albani رحمه الله

Hold yourself accountable...

Reflecting on the Qur’aan

Reflecting upon the Qur’aan

Ibnul Qayyim رحمه الله said:

Praise be to the One Who made His Speech (Qu’raan) a source of life for the hearts and a cure for what is within the chests. In general, there is nothing more beneficial for the heart than the recitation of Qur’aan with reflection and pondering upon it with deep thought. It also comprehensively places together the (different) levels of the traveler (in this worldly life), the condition of the one who implements it, along with the status of the one who possesses knowledge. From it (the Qur’aan,) the following are inherited:

* Love

* Yearning

* Fear

* Hope

* Returning to Allaah (in repentance)

Some Pointers In Achieving A Successful Muslim Household

*Keeping the Shaytaan out of the household by protecting them by the means of the remembrance of Allaah and by teaching the family the importance of worship.

*Making constant du'a that Allaah grants your family success and unity upon goodness.

*Realizing the foremost schooling for the children begins from their household.

*Fulfilling the trust of Allaah pertaining to the responsibility that He has given you over your household.

*Making family decisions through mutual consultation.

*Removing any communication barriers between you and your household.

Who are the majority in Hellfire?

The correct way to underlining a Word

Sheikh Albaani (رحمه الله) said:

"Indeed, placing a line above the word in order to give notice to it is the way of our scholars in coinciding with the way of the scholars of Hadith. As for underlining the word, then this is (considered) to be from the ways of the Europeans (i.e. the kuffâr) and we have been commanded to oppose them."

(Page 149)

Translated by: AbdulFattaah bin Uthman Abu Fajr

(Toronto Dawah)

An angel spends the night with you if you sleep with wudhu

The Prophet صلّى اللَّهُ عليه وسلّم said:

“Purify these bodies, may Allaah purify you, for there is no servant who spends the night in a state of purification except that an angel spends the night with him, in the garment which is closest to his body*, [and] he does not turn over at any time during the night except that the angel says, “O Allaah! Forgive Your slave for he went to sleep in a state of purification.”

(Saheeh al-Jaami, 3963, Al-Albaani said, “Hasan.” *Ref: Faid al-Qadeer, no. 5278.)

The Straight Path

The student of knowledge constantly monitors his intention in all his actions

With regards to the student of knowledge never ceasing to watch carefully over his niyyah when doing good deeds, the Sheikh Saalih al Fawzaan  حفظه الله mentions after quoting the hadeeth of the first people to be judged on the Day of Resurrection and that they will be cast into the Hell-Fire due to the corrupt intention behind their good deeds^{: 1}

So this (hadeeth) is from that which emphasizes to the Muslim that he must make his intention purely and sincerely for Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic, whenever he establishes any act from the good deeds, such as prayer and fasting and the Hajj and ‘Umrah, and giving charity, and the seeking of knowledge and teaching it, and enjoining the good and forbidding the evil, and calling to Allaah, the Mighty and Majestic – and other than that.

Therefore, it is befitting that he constantly watch over his intention and that he try to remember his intention in every action he does, in that he makes it purely and sincerely for Allaah and that he drives away ar Riyaa - (doing good deeds for show) from himself. (This is) because the person is a human being, and there occurs to him (the temptations of) showing off and love of being acclaimed and love of being praised.