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"In accordance with how good your expectations of and hope in Allāh are and how truthful your reliance and trust are in Him, Allāh will not betray your hopes in the least, as He does not betray the hopes of those who hope and does not cause any effort to go to waste." ♥️

Sh.Abu Muhammed Al-Maqdisi

Yahyaa Ibn Mu’aadh Al-Raazee (rh) said:

“Son of Adam; you seek the world as if your very life depended on it and you seek the Hereafter as if you have no need of it! You will acquire what you need from this world even if you do not run after it, but you will only attain the Hereafter if you run after it. So be aware of your true condition!”

[“The Journey Of The Strangers”, By Al-Aajurree, p. 67]

If you are looking for wealth, somebody is looking for health.

If you are looking for health, somebody just died.

If you are looking for power, somebody has acquired and use it and now is powerless.

Each time you drive a fancy car, somebody, somewhere is dying in a car crash.

Each time a new mansion springs from the earth, a new grave is dug below the earth.

Each time you throw away a morsel, somewhere, somebody is searching for a morsel to survive.

Each time you throw food into dustbin, someone is looking for remnant to eat.

Each time you ask Allah to promote or change your present situation, someone is praying to get to your present situation.

For each smile on the planet, there's a drop of tear in another place on the planet.

For each celebration of childbirth, there are tears of burial.

Each time you use toilet or drink water, remember someone is using a pipe for the same purpose.

Do you even realise that while you are praying for long life, someone somewhere, not seeing any reason to continue living, is wishing for death?

The joy of life lies in knowing your limitations and your final and inevitable destination.

May we be guided rightly. Aameen

Be contented.

Say Alhamdhulillah

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شيئان محزنان: رجل لم يدخل المسجد إلا في جنازته و امرأة لم تستر نفسها إلا في كفنها

Two sad things: A man (who) did not enter the mosque except for his Janaza, and a woman who did not cover herself except in her shroud.

-Translated post from Galandhaanu-

As long as the death of me and you remains unknown it is upon us to prepare with every passing moment.Remember, the angel of death has passed by you to take the soul of another, and one day he will pass by others to take yours.

Allāh guided their steps to the old man, ensuring he received his destined provision through them.Such is the wisdom and wonder of Allāh's ways.
Destined by Allāh, what is meant for you will surely find its way, no matter the time or path. With this assurance, can worry still reside in your heart?

Remember, the moments when you felt closest to Allāh were not because He moved closer to you, but because you moved closer to Him.When you feel a distance from Him, look within. Often it is our own actions and choices that create that separation. Allāh's love is constant, His mercy unending, but we are the ones who sometimes drift away. The path back to Him is illuminated with repentance and good deeds, and His door is always open. Reconnect by turning to prayer, seeking His forgiveness.
His love and mercy are the anchors that keep us steady in the turbulent seas of life. الحمد لله 🤍
and His love for His servants knows no bounds.

Oh Allāh, fill my heart with Your love and mercy. آمين

My heart holds endless parched sands, oh Allāh! You are the giver of life-giving rain. Pour your tender mercy upon me, and let my soul bloom like a garden full of flowers 💐

Relief will come to you at the time Allāh chooses, for He is the One who arranges your affairs and prepares the means of your well-being. When He decrees the lifting of your distress, He will bring forth reasons you know and reasons you do not, opening doors of ease from every direction. What once seemed like a barrier yesterday will become the greatest support for you today, allowing you to witness a glimpse of His immense power and infinite mercy.
Speak to Him in silence for He shall never turn away a heart that seeks refuge in His mercy from the hardships of life.

Continued:

“You were not suffocated with its narrowness, and you were not held by the hardship of your passage through it. If you contemplate your entrance through that gate and then your exit through it, you will have enough to wonder at: Who inspired it to tighten when you were a drop so that you would not be infected, and later had it expand and open wide for you to exit strong and healthy?

Then you came out alone, unescorted, weak, without shelter, or clothing, or property, or money: you were the neediest, weakest, and poorest of creatures. But He ordered the nourishment that you received inside to be transformed into milk preserved in two reservoirs hung on the breast of your mother. She bears your nourishment on her breast as she bore you inside her belly.

Milk flows to those two reservoirs for you in the subtlest way through paths that have been predesigned to carry it; it pauses in those paths until the milk already in the reservoirs is exhausted, and then a replenishment is provided for you to suck. It is like a well that is never depleted, and is never blocked, running to you through obscure ways, untrodden ways!

Who led it to follow those ways? Who purified it and gave it a delicious taste? Who chose its agreeable colour and made it to perfection? It is neither too hot nor too cold, neither bitter nor salty nor foul of scent. It is a feeding that is unlike that of the womb, different in quality and in nourishment. It reaches you when you need it badly, when you are extremely thirsty and hungry. It is a combination of drink and food.

You just smacked your lips at the time of birth, and moved your lips seeking sucking, and you found the breast reaching down to you, like a water-vessel, anxious to satisfy your desire with its flowing milk. The teat at its tip is just the right size for your mouth, neither too big for it, nor uncomfortably small. The pore at its tip is just big enough for your convenience, neither big in a way that suffocates you, nor small in a way that you need to exert yourself in sucking at it; it is just the amount that the Great Judge has arranged to fit your convenience.”

WHO TOOK SO MUCH CARE OF YOU?

(“Men & the Universe”, Reflections of Ibn Al Qayyem, by Capt. Abdul Hameed Al Qaz)

“Look then at yourself again, and think: Who took such great care of you - since you were a foetus in the belly of your mother, in a place where no hand could extend help to you, and no eye could reach you? You had then no way of seeking food or fending for yourself. Who caused the mother's blood to supply you with the nutrients that you needed, as a plant is nourished by nutrition-rich water, and how was that blood turned into milk?

He sustained you in the narrowest of places, least capable of providing or gratifying your needs; He supplied you until your creation was consummated and brought to its perfect destination. When your skin was judged to be strong enough to be exposed to air, your eyes strong enough to meet the light outside, and your bones were sturdy enough to withstand the touch of hands and life on earth, your mother had the labour that ushered you out into the world of ordeals, with all its attendant hardships. It was then that your mother's womb ejected you in a way as if it had never embraced you, as if it had never held you from the day it accepted you as a drop until the day of ejection. It once used to enjoy having you in its fold, and now it screams in pain, and complains to the Lord about the burden that is you. So Who allowed you in it in the first place? Who made it enfold you and protect you until you grew to the right stage? And then He opened that gate and expanded it, for you to exit in the twinkling of an eye?”

Remind yourself of yourself for how many have lost themselves.

What have you done today for Allāh to love you?

THE MOST DIFFICULT 3 DAYS UPON MANKIND

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‎قال سفيانُ بن عُيينة - رحمه اللهُ -:
‎"أوحَشُ ما يكونُ ابنُ آدمَ في ثلاثة مواطن:

Sufyān b. 'Uyaynah Raḥimahullāh said: the most loneliest time that the son of Adam will be in is 3 situations:

‎ يومَ وُلِدَ فيخرجُ إلى دارِ هَمٍّ .

1. The day he is born and comes to the abode of stress and anxiety (i.e. The world).

‎ وليلةَ يبيتُ مع الموتى فيُجاورُ
‎جيرانًا لم يَرَ مثلَهم.

2. The night he will sleep with the deceased, so he will live beside neighbors he has never seen the likes of (i.e. The grave).

‎ ويومَ يُبعثُ فيَشهدُ مشهدًا لم يَرَ مثله !!

3. The day he will be raised up (from the dead) and he will witness the likes of that which he never witnessed before (i.e. The Day of Judgement).

‎قَالَ اللهُ تعالى ليحيى في هذه
‎الثلاثة المواطن :

‌‏﴿ وَسَلَامٌ عَلَيْهِ يَوْمَ وُلِدَ وَيَوْمَ يَمُوتُ
‎وَيَوْمَ يُبْعَثُ حَيًّا ﴾

‎[مريم : ١٥]

Allāh the Most High said to Yaḥya regarding these 3 situations:

"May peace and safety be upon him, the day he is born, the day he dies and the day he will be brought back to life"

‎● [الجامع لأحكام القرآن ٢٧/١٣]
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Abdullah bin Tha'labah, said:

"Do you laugh, when your shrouds might already have been sewn by the tailor?"

Al'-Āqibah P.88

"The cloth from which your burial shroud will be cut may have already reached the market and yet you remain unaware."

-Imam al-Ghazali رحمة الله عليه

Women who adorn themselves before stepping out should remember that despite the expense of their cosmetics, the lingering scent of their fragrances, or the elegance of their attire, they shall return to the earth in their true form untouched by any artifice. Wallahi have fear of Allah.Do you not have shame disobeying Him day and night?

قُلْ إِنَّ الْمَوْتَ الَّذِي تَفِرُّونَ مِنْهُ فَإِنَّهُ مُلَاقِيكُمْ ثُمَّ تُرَدُّونَ إِلَى عَالِمِ الْغَيبِ وَالشَّهَادَةِ فَينَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

Say, "Truly the death from which you flee will surely meet you; then you shall be returned to the Knower of the Unseen and the seen, and He will inform you of that which you used to do." (62:8)

Ibn al-jawzi رحمه الله said:

“Look at your situation in which you're in, If it is suitable for death and the grave, then continue upon it, and if it is not suitable for both, then repent to Allah and return to what is suitable!”.

[بستان الواعظين ورياض السامعين 193]

Today Might Be Your Last Day

'Abdullah b. 'Umar said, "The Messenger of Allah touched my shoulder and said, 'Be in the world as though you are a stranger or a traveller, and consider yourself from the inhabitants of the graves.'

Ibn 'Umar would say, "When you reach the evening, then do not expect to live till the morning. And when you wake up in the morning, then do not expect to live till the evening. Take advantage of your health before you become sick, and take advantage of your life before you die."

(Bukhari)

- كم عدد ذكريات الموت التي نحتاجها لإدراك أن هذا العالم مؤقت فقط؟

- 𝑯𝒐𝒘 𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒅𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒅𝒐 𝒘𝒆 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒛𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒍𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒏𝒍𝒚 𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚?

It is reported that Al-Nu’man ibn Bashir رضي الله عنه said:

The example of the son of Adam and death is that of a man who has three friends.

He says to one of them: “What do you have?” [The first friend] replies, “I have your wealth, take from it what you wish, and whatever you do not take, you will no longer possess.”

Then he asks the second, “What do you have?” He replies, “I will look after you, and when you die, I will bury you and then leave you.”

The man then asks the third, “What do you have?” He replies, “I will be with you wherever you go.”

[Al-Nu’man] said, “As for the first one, it is the wealth of a person: whatever he uses is his, and whatever he does not use is not. As for the second, it is a man’s family and kin: when he dies they take care of him, then they leave him. As for the third, it is a man’s actions: wherever he goes (before and after death), they go with him.”

Ibn Abī Shaybah, Al-Musannaf hadīth 34723.
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‏أنا أول المُقصرين، لكني أُحب القُرب منك يا الله، فلا تحرمني من قُربك.

I am the first of those who fall short, but I love to be near You, ya Allāh, so do not deprive me of Your nearness.

Al-Hasan Al-Basrî – Allâh have mercy on him – that he said:

The life of this world is made up of three days: yesterday has gone with all that was done; tomorrow, you may never reach; but today is for you so do what you should do today.

[Al-Bayhaqî, Al-Zuhd Al-Kabeer, p.197]

Are you ready for the trials and tribulations of the grave?

In the Holy Qur’ān, Allâh Sub’hanahū Wata’āla revealed in the following verses:

Maryam 19:88
وَقَالُوا۟ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنُ وَلَدًا

And they say: "The Most Beneficent (Allah) has begotten a son (or offspring or children) [as the Jews say: 'Uzair (Ezra) is the son of Allah, and the Christians say that He has begotten a son ['Iesa (Christ)], and the pagan Arabs say that He has begotten daughters (angels, etc.)]."

Maryam 19:89
‎لَّقَدْ جِئْتُمْ شَيْـًٔا إِدًّا

Indeed you have brought forth (said) a terrible evil thing.

Maryam 19:90
تَكَادُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ يَتَفَطَّرْنَ مِنْهُ وَتَنشَقُّ ٱلْأَرْضُ وَتَخِرُّ ٱلْجِبَالُ هَدًّا

Whereby the heavens are almost torn, and the earth is split asunder, and the mountains fall in ruins,

Maryam 19:91
‎أَن دَعَوْا۟ لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ وَلَدًا

That they ascribe a son (or offspring or children) to the Most Beneficent (Allah).

Maryam 19:92
وَمَا يَنۢبَغِى لِلرَّحْمَٰنِ أَن يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًا

But it is not suitable for (the Majesty of) the Most Beneficent (Allah) that He should beget a son (or offspring or children).

Maryam 19:93
إِن كُلُّ مَن فِى ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ إِلَّآ ءَاتِى ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ عَبْدًا

There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes unto the Most Beneficent (Allah) as a slave.

[Quran 19:88-93]

So what about when you O Muslim, celebrate Kuffār festivals like the Christmas? The Christmas is a day the Kuffār celebrates to remember the birth of ‘Easa عليه السلام, whom they associate with Allâh Sub’hanahū Wata’āla as the “son” which is nothing but pure Shirk, معاذ الله! So how can you, Ya Muslim, greet the Kuffār and then participate in celebrating such festivals? Are you pleased that they are ascribing partners to our Rabb?

Reflect..

‏اللهم إنا نسألك حسن الخاتمة
اللهم لا تقبضنا من الدنيا إلا وأنت راضٍ عنا
اللهم حُسن البقاء وحُسن الرحيل وحسن الاثر يـارب ❤️‍🩹

"The Azaan you hear at your birth is for the Salah perfomed at your death. That's how short life is."

Al-An'am 6:32

وَمَا ٱلْحَيَوٰةُ ٱلدُّنْيَآ إِلَّا لَعِبٌ وَلَهْوٌۖ وَلَلدَّارُ ٱلْءَاخِرَةُ خَيْرٌ لِّلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَۗ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

And the worldly life is not but amusement and diversion; but the home of the Hereafter is best for those who fear الله, so will you not reason?

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