Category: The Ill Effects of Sins
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أعوذ بالله من الشيطان الرجيم …إِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُغَيِّرُ مَا بِقَوْمٍ حَتَّى يُغَيِّرُوا مَا بِأَنْفُسِهِمْ…(13:11) ‘…Indeed Allāh does not change the state of a nation until they change what is within them…’ بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم In just a few words of this āyah, Allāh sets down a principle: He will not change the good…
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بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم Imām Al-Bukhārī and Muslim رحمهما الله have both narrated a ḥadīth from Abū Hurayrah رضي الله عنه that the Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم said: ” كُلُّ أُمَّتِي مُعَافًى إِلَّا المُجَاهِرِينَ، وَإِنَّ مِنَ المُجَاهَرَةِ أَنْ يَعْمَلَ الرَّجُلُ بِاللَّيْلِ عَمَلًا، ثُمَّ يُصْبِحَ وَقَدْ سَتَرَهُ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ، فَيَقُولَ: يَا فُلاَنُ، عَمِلْتُ البَارِحَةَ…
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‘Uthmān رضي الله عنه once ascended the pulpit and said, “O People! Abstain from alcohol, for it is the mother of evils. A devoted worshipper from the people before you would frequent the masjid. A prostitute once decided to seduce him, and so instructed her attendant who coaxed him into the house, upon which she…
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Abū Nu‘aym رحمه الله mentions a narration in his book Ḥilyah-Al-Awliyā’, that when a person would ask Ibn Sīrīn رحمه الله regarding [the interpretations of] dreams, he would say, “Fear Allāh whilst you are awake; whatever you see in your dreams will not harm you.”[1] [1] روى أبو نعيم في الحلية قال: حَدَّثَنَا أَحْمَدَ بْنُ…
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Ṭalq ibn Ḥabīb رحمه الله narrates that ‘Umar رضي الله عنه said: “O people of Makkah! Fear Allāh with regards to this Ḥaram of yours! Do you know who resided in this Ḥaram before you? Such and such a tribe was residing in it, and they violated its sanctity and so were destroyed…” he then…
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Imām Al-Qurṭubī and Imām Ibn Kathīr رحمهما الله both quote the statement of the great Mufassir (Scholar of Tafsīr), Aḍ-Ḍaḥḥāk ibn Al-Muzāḥim رحمه الله, which is an eye-opener for all of us who learn the Qur’ān (or some portions of it) and then find that we have forgotten it. He says: “No-one learns the Qur’ān…