“The life and happiness of his home and family are possible through genuine, earnest, and loyal respect and true, tender, and self-sacrificing compassion.”
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“If a single sūrah Yā-sīn is recited and gifted to millions of souls, a complete Yā-sīn reaches each and every one of them.”
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There are among the narrations many that strongly encourage thanks and remembrance of Allah at festival times, in order to prevent heedlessness from prevailing and deviation into the illicit.
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All rivers, springs, streams and great waterways flow forth from the treasury of mercy of the compassionate one, the lord of glory and generosity.
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“There is a great mystery in the prayers they perform in congregation and in their other acts of worship: each individual gains from the congregation a reward far greater than what he earns from his own worship alone.”
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“Utter abhorrence and a thousand regrets should be felt for those who take the way of misguidance due to the europeans’ idols and sciences of naturalism, and for those who follow them and imitate them blindly!”
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“Despair is the obstacle to all perfection. ‘What is it to me? Let others think about it’ is a legacy of despotism.”
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Calamities are lashes of Divine decree, driving man toward the Divine Presence.
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“The oneness of faith demands the unity of hearts; and unity of creed necessitates unity in society.”
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“To the sheep sacrificed as an offering, he grants in the hereafter a permanent corporeal body, and rewards it by making it, upon the ṣirāṭ, a mount like burāq for its owner.”
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In the sacred pharmacy of the All-Wise Qur’an are remedies that will cure all your ailments.
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“If respect and compassion quit the human heart, those with such hearts become exceedingly cruel beasts”
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“The only remedy for salvation is to hold fast to the Qur’an.”
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“O my soul! If you make worldly life your ultimate aim and labor for it constantly, you will become like a mere soldier of even the lowliest sparrow.”
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“With all my soul, i congratulate you on the three blessed months and on the night of raghaib, which bear the secret of earning an eternal and everlasting life of more than eighty years.”
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“See ye the water which ye drink?
Do ye bring it down (in rain) from the cloud or do we?
Were it our will, we could make it salt (and unpalatable): then why do ye not give thanks?”
Surah al-waqi'ah, 56/68-70
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If you slander and backbite, you are made to eat it in the form of putrid flesh.
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The practices of the prophet (pbuh) are the foundation stone of the happiness of both worlds and the source and spring of all attainment and perfection.
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The refuge of people, and particularly of Muslims, and a sort of Paradise, and a small world, is family life.
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“After the truths of faith, the most necessary and most important matters are righteous deeds (ʿamal ṣāliḥ).
And righteous action consists in refraining from violating the material and spiritual rights of Allah’s servants, and in duly fulfilling his rights.”
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Even if a man be the most obstinate, rebellious, and tyrannical of people, if he finds no point of support in his conscience, he will tremble in fear at the slightest incident.
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“The Almighty Allah has gathered in His Beloved all forms of propriety and noble conduct. Whoever abandons his Sunnah abandons true courtesy.”
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“O Allah, Lord of all things! Make me and my family among those servants who are sincerely devoted to You at every moment, in this world and in the Hereafter.”
— Hadith (meaning); Sunan Abu Dawud, Book of Witr, 25.
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“Man’s superiority over other living beings and his high rank are in respect of his elevated qualities, comprehensive abilities, universal worship, and his extensive spheres of existence.”
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“Those who adhere to and serve the practices of the prophet and truths of the qur’an when innovations and misguidance are rife may gain the reward of a hundred martyrs.”
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O people of belief! Your strength is reduced to nothing as a result of your passions and biased partisanships, and you can be defeated by the slightest forces.
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“The heart is a window opened toward eternity; it is not content with this transient world.”
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“One who abandons the five daily prescribed prayers out of laziness, or fails to appreciate their worth, will later come to realize how ignorant, how deprived, and how greatly harmed he has been—but by then, it will be too late.”
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The pleasure of Almighty Allah is attained through sincerity; not through the multitude of followers nor through abundant outward success.”
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“One who abandons the five daily prescribed prayers commits a grave transgression against the rights of created beings, who stand as subjects of the Monarch of Pre-Eternity and Post-Eternity, and thus perpetrates a spiritual injustice.”
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“Material knowledge, art, and advancements taken from foreigners are necessary; but if they pertain to dissipation and moral corruption, they are harmful.”
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“And obey allah and his apostle; and fall into no disputes, lest ye lose heart and your power depart; and be patient and persevering: for allah is with those who patiently persevere.”
Surah al-Anfal 8/46
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“The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of Allah contained within belief in Allah.”
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If, through Islamic training, you spend the bounty of your youth as thanks honourably, in uprightness and obedience, it will in effect remain perpetually and will be the cause of gaining eternal youth.
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In the blessed month of Ramadan, through fasting one becomes accustomed to a kind of abstinence, trains in spiritual discipline, and learns obedience to command.
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Since the month of Ramadan encompasses the Night of Power, it itself becomes a Night of Power within one’s lifetime—adding, for the one who attains it aright, a thousand lifetimes to his life.
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The blessed month of Ramadan is a most profitable marketplace for the commerce of the Hereafter.
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The fast of the blessed month of Ramadan is the key to a true, pure, majestic, and universal thanksgiving.
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“O LORD! FORGIVE OUR FAULTS AND ACCEPT US AS YOUR SLAVES.
Make us sure holders of Your trust until the time comes when it is taken from us. Amen!”
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THE MARK OF ‘THE TRUTH’ IS ACCORD. THE MARK OF VIRTUE IS ‘SOLIDARITY’.
THE MARK OF MUTUAL ASSISTANCE IS ‘HASTENING TO ASSIST ONE ANOTHER’.
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INDEED, WITHIN THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLDLY LIFE, ITS MOST LUMINOUS NIGHT OF POWER IS RAMADAN.
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Supplication for Consent
أَعُوذُ بِرِضَاكَ مِنْ سَخَطِكَ وَبِمُعَافَاتِكَ مِنْ عُقُوبَتِكَ وَبِكَ مِنْكَ
لَاأُحْصِي ثَنَاءً عَلَيْكَ أَنْتَ كَمَا أَثْنَيْتَ عَلٰى نَفْسِكَ
(A’udhu bi-ridaka min sakhatika wa bimu’afatika min ’uqubatika wa bika minka la uhsi thanaan ‘alayka anta kama athnayta ‘ala nafsika.)
O Allah! I seek refuge with Your Pleasure from Your anger, in Your forgiveness from Your punishment and in You from You. I cannot count Your praises; You are as You have praised Yourself.
Malik, Dua, No: 497
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Supplication for Neighbors
اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ جَارِ السُّوءِ
(Allahumma! Inni a’udhu bika min jarissui.)
“O Allah! I take refuge in you from bad neighbors.”
Ibn Hibban, Istiadha, No: 1033
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Supplication for taking refuge from debt and misfortunes
اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ مِنْ غَلَبَةِ الدَّيْنِ
وَغَلَبَةِ الْعَدُوِّ وَشَمَاتَةِ الْأَعْدَاءِ
(Allahumma, inni a’udhu bika min ghalabatiddayni wa ghalabatil-‘aduwwi wa shamatatil-a’dai.)
“O Allah! I take refuge in You from the debt that will overwhelm me, from being defeated by my enemies and from a misfortune that will make my enemies happy.”
Ibn Hibban, Istiadha, No: 1027
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Supplication for High Ethics
Hz. Aisha narrates: The Messenger of Allah (pbuh) prayed as follows:
اَللّٰهُمَّ اَحْسَنْتَ خَلْقِي فَاَحْسِنْ خُلُقِي
(Allahumma ahsanta khalqi fa ahsin khuluqi.)
“Oh Allah! Perfect my character as You have perfected my creation.”
Ahmad b. Hanbal, I, 403
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Supplication for Knowledge
اَللّٰهُمَّ انْفَعْنِي بِمَا عَلَّمْتَنِي وَعَلِّمْنِي
مَا يَنْفَعُنِي وَارْزُقْنِي عِلْمًا تَنْفَعُنيِ بِهِ
(Allahummanfa’ni bima ‘allamtani wa ‘allimni
ma yanfa’uni warzuqni ‘ilman tanfa’uni bihi.)
“O Allah!
Benefit me by that which You have taught me,
and teach me that which will benefit me,
give me knowledge that will benefit me.”
Hakim, Daawat, No: 1879
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Supplication for Forgiveness
اَللّٰهُمَّ إِنِّي ظَلَمْتُ نَفْسِي ظُلْمًا كَثِيرًا وَلاَ يَغْفِرُ الذُّنُوبَ إِلَّا أَنْتَ فَاغْفِرْ
لِي مَغْفِرَةً مِنْ عِنْدِكَ وَارْحَمْنِي إِنَّكَ أَنْتَ الْغَفُورُ الرَّحِيمُ
(Allahumma inni zalamtu nafsi zulman kathira. Wa la yaghfirudh-dhunuba illa
anta faghfirli maghfiratammin ‘indika warhamni innaka antal-ghafurur-rahim.)
“O Allah! I have greatly wronged myself
and none forgives sins except You, so grant me Your forgiveness and have mercy on me.
You are the Forgiving,
the Merciful.”
Tirmidhi, Daawat, 98
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Supplication for Asking for Forgiveness
اَللّٰهُمَّ اغْفِرْ لَنَا ذُنُوبَنَا وَظُلْمَناَ وَهَزْلَناَ وَجِدَّناَ
وَعَمْدَنَا وَكُلُّ ذٰلِكَ عنِدْنَاَ
(Allahummaghfir-lana dhunubana wa zulmana wa hazlana wa jiddana
wa ‘amdana wa kullu dhalika ‘indana.)
“O Allah! Forgive our sins, wrongdoings,
nonsensical acts and serious acts;
we have committed all of them.”
Hakim, Daawat, No:1916
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