True Certainty
The meaning of true certainty and reliance on Allah.
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The Comfortable Home
The only time the true believer will be at rest is when he meets his Lord.
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Dua from the Bottom of the Heart [Ikhlas]
How many prayers are answered? How many people supplicate with an absent heart? Dua has to be from the bottom of the heart and only to Allah.
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From whom does Knowledge Come?
Being upon a good and right path is based on following the knowledge of the Companions and seniors: scholars and people who adhere to the Sunnah, whereas taking knowledge from minors like ignorant people and heretics is a sign of destruction.
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Checking from where the Sun Rises
It is reported that Al-Dahhāk said: How surprising it is that the companions of ʿAbdulāh (ibn Mas’ūd) are looking now to see where the sun rises from. Do they not know that when Fajr comes from a direction, the sun rises from the same? It is reported that Jundub b. ʿAbdillāh Al-Bajalī said: I once […]
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Homeless & Senseless
It is reported that ‘Abdullāh b. Masʿūd – Allāh be pleased with him – said: This world (the dunyā) is [only taken as] a home by those who will have no real home [in Jannah], and it is the wealth of those who will have no real wealth, and it is gathered and collected for […]
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The Mad Mufti
It is reported that ‘Abdullāh b. Masʿūd – Allāh be pleased with him – said: By Allāh, he who gives people verdicts (fatwā) for every question they ask him is crazy (majnūn). Ibn Battah Al-‘Ukbarī, Ibṭāl Al-Ḥiyal article 81, et al. Imām Ibn Battah (d. 304H) laments: So here is Ibn Masʿūd, swearing by Allāh […]
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The Merit of Night Prayer when others Sleep
It is reported that ‘Abdullāh b. Masʿūd said: Allāh the Mighty and Sublime laughs at two men [being pleased with them]: a man who stands in the middle of the night while his family sleeps; he purifies himself and stands in prayer, so Allāh laughs at him. And a man who meets the enemy [in […]
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The Recommendation for Men to Smell Pleasant [wearing perfume]
It is reported from Abī Qilābah that when Ibn ‘Abbās – Allāh be pleased with him – went out to the masjid, the neighbors knew that he had passed due the pleasant scent [of perfume] that came from him. It is reported that ‘Abdullāh [Ibn Masʿūd] used to use perfume that had musk in it. […]
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The Three Men and the Valley [example of the munafiq]
It is reported that ‘Abdullāh b. Masʿūd – Allāh be pleased with him – said: The example of the believer, the unbeliever and the hypocrite is that of three people who arrived at a valley. One of them descended and passed through to the other side. One of them descended until he reached half way, […]