The Dwellings

49. Surah Al-Hujuraat (The Dwellings)

14. The bedouins say: "We believe." Say: "You believe not but you only say, 'We have surrendered (in Islam),' for Faith has not yet entered your hearts. But if you obey Allah and His Messenger (), He will not decrease anything in reward for your deeds. Verily, Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful."

15. Only those are the believers who have believed in Allah and His Messenger, and afterward doubt not but strive with their wealth and their lives for the Cause of Allah. Those! They are the truthful.

16. Say: "Will you inform Allah about your religion? While Allah knows all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth, and Allah is All-Aware of everything.

17. They regard as favour upon you (O Muhammad ) that they have embraced Islam. Say: "Count not your Islam as a favour upon me. Nay, but Allah has conferred a favour upon you, that He has guided you to the Faith, if you indeed are true.

18. Verily, Allah knows the unseen of the heavens and the earth. And Allah is the All-Seer of what you do.

HadithS of the day are.....

Volume 8, Book 76, Number 421:

Narrated Ibn 'Abbas:

The Prophet said, "There are two blessings which many people lose: (They are) Health and free time for doing good."

Volume 8, Book 76, Number 453:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "Riches does not mean, having a great amount of property, but riches is self-contentment."

Volume 8, Book 76, Number 424:

Narrated Sahl:

I heard the Prophet saying, "A (small) place equal to an area occupied by a whip in Paradise is better than the (whole) world and whatever is in it; and an undertaking (journey) in the forenoon or in the afternoon for Allah's Cause, is better than the whole world and whatever is in it."

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Some Wise Statements:

"Oh Allah, How can I ever truly thank You, when my thanking You is also a favor from You to me"

"Tracks in the sand prove the existence of a traveler, a new born baby proves the existence of a mother. So a sky full of stars, a world full of mountains and seas, does this not prove the existence of the One, the all Powerful creator."

Imaam Ahmed bin Hanbal: If Iblees was ordered to prostrate to Adam and refused thus making him a kafir, then the so called Muslim who refuses to prostrate to Allah (leaves off salah) is more deserving of this title.

Ibn al-Qayyim: Allah drove out our parents [Adam and Eve] and the devil out of Jannah due to one sin, but we foolish people sin all the time.

When it comes to my provisions, I rely upon Allaah, my Creator
And I know with certainty that He will no doubt provide for me.
Whatever’s in my due, will not pass me by,
Even if it were to be in the depths of the sea.
Allaah the Exalted will bring it forth by His Grace,
Even if I were to remain silent over it.
So, what can a soul feel sorrow over,
When the Most Merciful has set the provisions of the creation?
- Imam al-Shafi’i

“Get yourself out of this limited world of diseases to the wide world of the hereafter, which has what the eyes have never seen. Nothing is impossible there, and love is not lost. O you who sold yourself for the sake of something that will cause you suffering and pain, and which will also lose its beauty, you sold the most precious item for the cheapest price, as if you neither knew the value of the goods nor the meanness of the price. Wait until you come on the Day of mutual loss and gain and you will discover the injustice of this contract. “There is no God but Allaah” is something that Allaah is buying. Its price is Paradise, and the Messenger is its agent, and you will be pleased to part with a small part of this worldly life to obtain it. The part you lose is a small part of something that as a whole is not worth a mosquito’s wing.”

Ibn ul Qayyim al Jawziyyah

"And verily for everything that a slave loses there is a substitute, but the one who loses Allaah will never find anything to replace Him." -Imam Ibn Qayyim Al Jawziyyah RahimahUllaah

"If we truly understood our connection with Allaah, our hearts would break & we would say: O Allaah! I have divorced this life & I am all Yours." [Sufyaan Ath-Thawri-rahmatulLahi 'alayh]

`Ali bin Abi Talhah reported from Ibn `Abbas, "He is the Master Who is perfect in His sovereignty, the Most Noble Who is perfect in His nobility, the Most Magnificent Who is perfect in His magnificence, the Most Forbearing Who is perfect in His forbearance, the All-Knowing Who is perfect in His knowledge, and the Most Wise Who is perfect in His wisdom. He is the One Who is perfect in all aspects of nobility and authority. He is Allah, glory be unto Him.

"When Allaah tests you it is never to destroy you. When He removes something in your possession it is (only) in order to empty your hands for an even greater gift!" - Ibn al-Qayyim

Ibn Shubrumah mentions:

((I am amazed at the people who take care of themselves by eating food out of fear of dying, yet do not protect themselves from sins out of fear of the Fire)).
Siyar A'laam an-Nubalaa. - Volume 6, Page 348


"THE KNOWLEDGE OF A HYPOCRITE IS IN HIS SPEECH, WHILE THE KNOWLEDGE OF A BELIEVER IS IN HIS ACTION."



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