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'Abd al-Baari
06-17-2008, 08:50 PM
Assalamu Alaykum Warahmatullahi Wabarakaatuh,

Ibn al Qayyim رحمه الله said:

It is well known that man has not been given to power to kill his thoughts nor the strength to severe them. They invade him just as his breathing invades his body.

However the strength of Imân and intellect helps him to accept his best thoughts , to be pleased with them, to experience peace and tranquility from them. It also helps him to repulse his most evil thoughts and dislike and recoil from them.

Allâh created the soul similar to a grinding stone that goes round and round - one that does not stop; and always in need of something to grind. If seeds are placed therein it will grind them. If stones are placed therein it will still grind them.

So the thoughts that revolve in the soul are like a seed that is placed in a grinding stone. That grinding stone is never left idle. Something or the other has to be placed inside it. So from amongst the people are those whose grinding stone grinds seeds which comes out as flour - which he and others derive benefit from.

But most of them grind soil, stones, straw and so forth - so when the time of making the dough and baking comes; he sees the reality of what he ground.


al-Fawaa’id
Page 31 and 173-174

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ummAbdillah
06-21-2008, 06:23 PM
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JazakaAllah khayr for sharing.
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SixTen
06-21-2008, 07:07 PM
Very deep analogy, something to contemplate over :).
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Souljette
06-22-2008, 01:05 PM
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Jazakallah for sharing
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suffiyan007
07-01-2008, 09:07 AM
very well! nice.
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Nájlá
07-04-2008, 04:34 PM
jazakiallah khair bro
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Ummu Sufyaan
04-11-2010, 11:31 AM
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*bump...
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Misz_Muslimah
04-11-2010, 12:41 PM
Jazaakalahu khayran for sharing..
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