Benefiting from Happiness and Sadness
You can turn your emotions and feelings into worship.
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Benefitting from Being Happy with what Allah has Provided
The effect of attitude on the benefit of your wealth.
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Dua of the Horse
The special relationship Allah made between a horse and its owner.
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The Link Between Blessings and Gratitude
The relationship between blessings and gratitude to Allah.
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Who is Rich?
What makes a man rich?
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When Blessings Turn to Blight
On gratitude to Allah. Sometimes resources and blessings turn into disaster and loss. One reason for this is narrated from Hasan Al-Basri.
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At the Crossroads of Gratitude
It is reported that Al-Ḥasan Al-Baṣrī – Allāh have mercy on him – said: It has reached me that when Allāh the Mighty and Majestic blesses a people and gives them some good he asks them to be grateful. If they are grateful, He is all-able to give them more. But if they are ungrateful, […]
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The best thing after Iman and the worst thing after Kufr [women]
It is reported that ‘Umar b. Al-Khattāb – Allāh be pleased with him – once addressed the people and said: No man can have anything better after faith (īmān) than a woman of righteous character, loving and child-bearing. And no man can have anything worse after unbelief (kufr) than a sharp-tongued woman of bad character. […]
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Dead Hearts and Empty Supplications
It is reported that Ibrāhīm b. Adham (d162H) – Allāh have mercy on him – once passed through the market of Baṣrah. People gathered around him and asked: O Abū Isḥāq, Allāh the Exalted says in his Book. ‘Call on me, I will answer your prayers’, but we have been calling on Him for a […]
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Praise be to Allāh for this Calamity
It is reported that Shurayḥ – Allāh have mercy on him – said, “If I am afflicted with a calamity, I praise Allāh for it four times: I praise Him because it wasn’t worse than it was, I praise Him when He gives me the patience to bear it, I praise Him for enabling me […]