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**hidaayah** · 02-21-2006

ALLAH'S COMPLETE JUSTICE AND MERCY

It is related that a woman went to the Prophet Dawud(A.S) and said, "O Prophet of Allah, is your lord an opressor or is He just?" The Prophet replied, "Woe unto you, O woman, he is the All-Just, Who never oppresses. What is your story." She explained that she was a widow, with three daughters and that she provided for them by what she would spin with her hands. She explained, "Yesterday, I tied what I had spun into a red cloth to sell into the market place to provide for my children. As I was walking a bird came and snatched the red cloth from me and flew away, leaving me nothing to sell for the provision of my children." As the woman was speaking to Dawud(A.S), someone came knocking on his door. He gave permission for them to enter and learned that they were ten bussinessmen bringing with them one hundred dinars each. They said, "O Prophet of Allah, give this wealth to the one whom is deserving of it." Dawud(A.S) asked them what had brought them to him with their wealth. They explained, "O Prophet of Allah, we were on the boat, the wind was very violent, and we were about to drown when a bird came and dropped a red cloth upon us. In this cloth was some yarn and with this we blocked the hole in the ship until the wind subsided and we vowed that each of us would give one hundred dinars in charity. So give that amount to whom you please." Dawud(A.S) turned to the woman and said, "Your Lord does bussiness for you in the land and in the sea, yet you ask whether He oppresses!" He gave her the thousand dinars and said. "Spend this on your children."

--Gems and Jewels (the book)
Abdul Malik Mujahid

**Amz** · 02-21-2006

cool post...thanks 4 sharin it

**hidaayah** · 02-27-2006

Knowledge Must Be Followed Up By Action

Ibn Qayyim (RA) Said, “Whoever Has Profound Knowledge of What Allah Revealed to the Prophet (SAWWS), Will Notice That Most of the People That Are Reputed to be Religious are Often the Least Religious. What Kind of Religion or Goodness is in a Person Who Sees Evil Being Committed, Allah’s Boundaries being Transgressed, Religion Being Lost, The Sunnah of the Prophet (SAWWS) Being Abandoned and Warned Against – and Yet Remains Cold In his Heart? His Tongue Quiet; He is a Mute Devil Just as the One Who Speaks against Religion is an Articulate Devil. Is Not Affliction in Religion the Situation of Those who, When They Attain Leadership and Sustenance from Religion, Care Not about What Happens Regarding the Religion? Certainly, the Best of them are those that are at the Very Least Saddened by the Evil State of Affairs. If one were to Attack Such a Person in His Honour, Wealth, or Status, He Would Surely Take all Necessary Steps to Prevent Himself From that Attack. Such People Have Been Tested, Have Failed, and Have Fallen From Allah’s Eyes, Yet they Do Not Perceive it. The Trial they Have Been Afflicted With is the Death of their Hearts. When the Heart is Alive and Functioning at its Peak, It Rises to Anger for the Cause of Allah and His Prophet (SAWWS) and Will Seek to Promote His Religion.”

As Time Passes
Abdullah Bin Mas’ud (RA) Said: “Indeed I Hate to See a Man Idle, Neither Working for this World nor for the Hereafter.”

Hasan Basri (RA) Said: “O Son of Adam, Indeed you are only but a Number of Days. Whenever a Day Passes, a Part of You Leaves With It.”

Hassan Said: “I Have Met (Pious) People Who are More Miserly With their Time Than they Are With Their Wealth.”

Hassan Also Said in a Sermon: “Do Not Let the Temporary and Little Charms of this World Distract You and Entice You … and Do Not Say Tomorrow and Tomorrow, For Indeed You Do Not Know When You Will Be Heading to Allah.”

Hasan Basri
He Advised Some of His Students admonishing them About Avoiding the State of Being Proud. He Said:

1. Do Not Deceive Yourself into Becoming Too Proud Because You are in a Good or Righteous Environment, For there is no Place that is Better Than Paradise, and Our Father, Adam (AS), Experienced there What is Know to All.

2. Do Not Become Proud Merely Because You Worship Often, For Consider What Happened to Iblis (Satan) After He Spent a Great Deal of Time Worshipping.

3. Do Not Think Yourself Great Because You Have Met with Righteous People, for there is No Man More Righteous That the Prophet (SAWWS), Yet the Disbelievers and Hypocrites did Not Benefit by Simply Knowing Him.

The Beard

Sheikh Abdur-Rahman as-Sa’idi stated that the Prophet Muhammad (SAWWS) ordered us to Trim out Moustaches and Grow Our Beards. He Also informed us that to Trim It (Facial Hair) is From the Majus and the Polytheists. He Warned His Nation From Following that Misguided Custom. So, Truly It is Strange that we See Someone Who Believes in Allah and His Messenger, Yet is Stingy in Following the Example of the Prophet (SAWWS), the Companions, and the Tabi’een (Successors of the Companions). Allah has Honoured Men With Beards and Has Made Their Beauty and Character Apparent in it, So Woe to the One Who Shaves it, For he Has Disobeyed his Word Openly, Do all of those that Shave their Beards Think That they Have Achieved a Handsome Appearance? Surely, They Have Not, since it Shames the Face of a Man and Takes Away from Its Nobility. Following the Misguided Example of Others Often Makes Evil Things Seem Comely. Did the People of Knowledge Not say that if Anyone Attacked Another by Shaving his Beard and That if it did Not Ever Grow Again, then Upon the Attacker is the Responsibility of Paying Full Blood Money? This Illustrates the Honour and Good that Allah (SWT) Has Placed in Men who Keep Beards. In Parallel to the Previous Example, then Imagine the State of one who Assaults his Own Honour and Dignity by Removing His Own Beard.

Good Advice
Shu’bah and Qatada Related from Yunus Bin Jubair, Who Said that he Accompanied Jundub and He and His Companions Said to Him, “Give us Some Advice.” He Replied, “I Advise You to Fear Allah. I Advise You to Adhere to the Qur’an – For it is Light in the Darkest of Nights and It is Guidance During the Day. Apply it … But if a Trial, Such as Poverty Comes to You, Give Precedence to Your Religion Over Wealth. If that Trial Worsens, Continue to Put Your Religion Before Your Wealth and your Soul, For Indeed the Only One who Is Destroyed is the One Whose Religion is Destroyed; the One Who is Poor is the One Who Has Lost His Religion. Know that There is No Poverty After Paradise and There is No Richness After the Hellfire.”

Our Pious Predecessors and Their Fear of Allah (SWT)
Ibn Mas’ud (RA) Used to Say: “Indeed, With the Passing of Nights and Days, Your Stay on this Earth is Decreasing, Yet Your Good Deeds Will Remain Preserved and Death will Come Suddenly. Whoever Sows Seeds of Goodness Will Reap a Harvest of Hope. Whoever Sows Evil Will Reap The Harvest of Misfortune and Regret. Indeed, Each Shall Reap of that Which he Sows. The one Who Works Slowly Shall Not Be Prevented from his Share, and the One who Works Eagerly Will Not Ger More than is Decreed for Him (Referring to Worldly Pursuits). Any Blessing that is Received is From Allah and any Protection from Evil is Also From Allah. The Ones who Fear Allah are the Leaders, as Are the Scholars, and Joining their Company Can Only Lead to Personal Benefit.”

Our Pious Predecessors
Abdullah bin Mubarak Related that it Was Said to Hamdun Bin Ahmad, “Why is the Speech of Our Pious Predecessors More Beneficial than Our Speech?” He Replied, “Because They Spoke for the Honour of Islam, or the Salvation of the Soul, and for the Pleasure of the Most Merciful. However, we Speak to Honour Ourselves, to Seek Out the World, and to Please Creation.”

Source: Gems and Jewels - Wise Sayings, Interesting Events & Moral Lessons From the Islamic History
Compiled By: Brother Abdul-Malik Mujahid
Darussalm Publications