‘Abdullah ibn Khubayb said:
“The Messenger of Allah, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to me, ‘Recite, “Say: He is God, One,”* and the Suras of seeking refuge** in the evening and the morning three times, it will be enough to protect you in respect of everything.'”
[Abu Dawud and at-Tirmidhi]
* Sura Al-Ikhlas
** Sura Al-Falaq & Surah Al-Nas
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The Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“Your Lord delights at a shepherd who, on the peak of a mountain crag, gives the call to prayer and prays. Then Allah (glorified and exalted be He) will say: ‘Look at this servant of Mine, he gives the call to prayer and performs the prayers; he is in awe of Me. I have forgiven My servant [his sins] and have admitted him to Paradise.’”
[An-Nasa’i]
Abu Zaynah
The Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“When one of you makes a supplication, he should not say, ‘If you wish.’ He should be firm in asking and he should have great hope. Allah does not think that anything that He gives is too great.'”
[Bukhari – Adab Al-Mufrad]
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The Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day should honour his guest. Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day, should maintain ties of kinship. Anyone who believes in Allah and the Last Day, should speak well or be silent.”
[Agreed upon – Riyadh As-Salihin]
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I have just completed reading Dr Mostafa Al Badawi’s Man and the Universe: An Islamic Perspective. As I was reading I took out a series of potent and piercing quotes that I posted on my Facebook and Twitter accounts. I have compiled and listed all of these quotes below under one post for easy reading [Apologies as I didn’t note down the page numbers as I went on].
‘How accurately this describes the Muslims of today: insignificant, weightless, carried by the tides of the times, lacking the moral fibre to accomplish whatever is required, jumping enthusiastically down every lizard hole that the non-believers care to dig for them.’
‘Western civilisation is the inevitable last stage in human degeneracy. The downward trend has been progressing for thousands of years, but its acceleration has now become insane.’
‘People are mentally imprisoned in the tangible world and this is precisely the dimension that the Imposter (Dajjal) will be able to master and he shall show them such wonders in that they will readily accept whatever claims he shall wish to make.’
‘The norm in Islam is thus the Sunna of the Prophet, may God’s blessings be upon him, and that of the Companions and Followers. The Sunna represents the very perfection of human behaviour and anything less than that is considered abnormal.’
‘Spiritual courage is to wage war against one’s egotism and to resist ones appetites.’
‘A good recent example of how Muslims wage war is Bosnia. The Bosnian Muslims were massacred, buried in mass graves, tortured, starved in concentration camps, and their women were raped. They never retaliated in kind. None of the war criminals under trial are Muslim. The Bosnians, being a traditional Sunni, Hanafi community, knew instinctively that to behave like animals meant relinquishing the honour of belonging to the community of Muhammad, may God’s blessings and peace be upon him.’
I would recommend the above book to anyone who would like to get a general perspective of the Islamic World View as the book is short, succinct and provides a good overview.
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The Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“If the son of Adam possessed a valley full of gold he would want to have two valleys, yet his mouth will only be filled by earth. Allah turns towards those who turn in repentance.”
[Agreed upon – Taken from Riyadh As-Salihin]
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‘And We made the night and the day two signs. Then We effaced the sign of the night and made the sign of the day sight-giving; that you may seek bounty from your Lord, and that you may know the number of years and the reckoning, and everything We have detailed very distinctly.’ [Qur’an 17:12]
The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace) said: “It is better for one of you to take a rope and bring a faggot of firewood on his back and sell it so that Allah gives him what he needs than for him to ask people who then give to him or refuse.” [Bukhari] Continue reading Benefit Dependancy and Work Ethics amongst Muslims
The Messenger of Allah (May Allah bless him and grant him peace) said:
“Out of a dinar which you spend in the way of Allah and a dinar which you spend on freeing a slave and a dinar which you give to a poor person and a dinar which you spend on your family, the one with the greatest reward is the one which you spend on your family.”
[Related by Muslim – Taken from Riyad As-Salihin]
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