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Imam Awza’i (may Allah have mercy upon him)) says:

Knowledge was sublime for as long as it was obtained from the mouths of learned men. But when it ended up in books, its nur (spiritual light) disappeared.

(Imam Khatib al Baghdadi, Taqyid al-Ilm, 61)
 
Ibn ‘Aqeel al-Hanbali rh said:

“It is not permissible for me to waste an hour of my life even when my tongue is not busy with memorizing or debating with others, or my eyes are not busy in reading. I would think even when I am resting or relaxing, so I would not get up without an idea to write down.
I limit the time I spend eating as much as I can, to such an extent that I choose a few crumbs and follow it with water rather than bread, because bread takes more time to chew, so as to save my time for reading or writing down some useful ideas. The best thing for the wise man to save, is time.”

[Salaah al-Ummah (4/169-175)]
 
Sayyiduna 'Abdullah Ibn Mas'ood رضي الله عنه said,

"I have never regretted anything as much as my regret over a day on which the sun sets and my life span decreases while my good deeds have not increased."

[The Value of Time, Shaykh 'Abdul Fattah Abu Ghuddah رحمه الله]
 
Imam Sufyan Thawri (rahimahullah) said:

نسلم ما سمعنا، ونكل ما لا نعلم إلى عالمه، ونتهم رأينا لرأيهم

“We follow what we know, and hand over what we do not know to those who do know. We will even question our understanding in favour of theirs”

(Al-Intiqa, pg.265, 266)
 
لو قيل لك لم يبق من عمرك إلا يوم ، ما كنت صانعا ؟

Q: If you had one day remaining in your life, what would you do?

كنتُ أعلمُ الناس

Imam Abdullah ibn al-Mubarak rh:

I would teach people.

(al-Madkhal by Imam al-Bayhaqee #380)
 
Ibn Qayyim rh said:

Before you make du’aa it’s worth knowing:

“Invoking Allah’s name has a special effect in answering du’aas and ending afflictions.” —•

(Prophetic Medicine p. 257)
 
''Whoever is mindful of Allah when he is young and strong, Allah will take care of him when he is old and has become weak, and will bless him with good hearing, eyesight, strength and reasoning.

One of the scholars who lived beyond the age of a hundred years and enjoyed good strength and reasoning, jumped up in a lively manner one day and was asked about that. He said: “I kept these physical faculties from sin when I was young and Allah has preserved them for me now that I am old.”

(Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali in Jami’ al-‘Uloom wa’l-Hukam, 1/186)
 
Imam Malik (rahimahullah) said:

سلموا للأئمة ولا تجادلوهم، فلو كنا كلما جاءنا رجل أجدل من رجل اتبعناه: لخفنا أن نقع في رد ما جاء به جبريل عليه السلام

“Submit to the Imams and don’t argue with them, for if we were to make a habit of following every more convincing debater, I fear we may end up refuting what Angel Jibreel brought from the skies”.

(Atharul Hadith, pg.117)
 
Imam Sufyan ibn ‘Uyaynah (rahimahullah) said:

التسليم للفقهاء سلامة في الدين

“In conceding to the Fuqaha (Jurists), is the security for our deen”

(Atharul Hadith, pg.117)
 
Bishr Ibn Al-Haarith (rahimahullaah):

Self-Amazement is that you aggrandise your deeds and belittle the deeds of the people or that of someone else.

[Hilyatul Awliyaa 8/348)]
 
Abū Al-Dardā – Allāh be pleased with him – said, “Three make me laugh, and three make me cry.
Those that make me laugh are a person who puts his hopes in this worldly life while deathpursues him, a person who is heedless [of his Lord] while [his Lord] is not heedless of him, and a person who always laughs while he does not know whether he has pleased Allāh or angered Him.

What makes me cry is being separated from my beloved: Muhammad s.a.w and his party ( the Companions ra), the horrors of the time of death, and standing in front of Allāh ‘azza wa jall on the Day when the secrets will be revealed and I do not know will I then go to Paradise or Hell?”

(Al-Zuhd wa Al-Raqā`iqarticle 250)
 
Hazrat Abdullah Ibn Mas’ood (Radhiyallahu ‘anhu) said:

“The people will remain upon goodness so long as they take knowledge from their Scholars, their greater ones and their elders. When they take knowledge from their young ones and their foolish ones, they will be destroyed.”

This is recorded in the introduction of Al-Kamil of Ibn ‘Adiy, vol.1 pg.260-261
 
Imam Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyyah writes,

“Shaykh Al-Islam (Ibn Taymiyyah), God be pleased with him, said to me, when I presented to him one objection (îrâd) after another,
‘Do not make your heart like a sponge for objections and doubts, such that it cannot ripen but with them, but rather like polished glass, so doubts may pass over its surface but do not stay within: its purity makes you see them, and its firmness allows you to repel them’.

Or something to this effect. I do not know of any other advice that has helped me repel doubts like this one”.

-Sharaf Al-Dîn, Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya, p. 102; see Miftâ^ dâr Al-saâdah, Cairo, Matba'at Al-Saâdah, 1905, vol. 1, p. 148
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Steps of the Seekers (Madarij al-Salikin)
 
Fudayl Ibn ‘Iyad رحمه الله said:

“The Believer screens and gives sincere advice and the wicked evil doer unveils and exposes.”

[Jami’ul ”Ulum Wal-Hikam, p.77]
 
Imam Ibn ‘Adbil-Barr رحمه الله said:

“It is authentically related from Abu Dardaa’ رضي الله ﺗﻌﺎﻟﯽٰ عنه that ‘I do not know’ is half of knowledge.”

[Jaami’ Bayaanil ‘Ilm Wa Fadhlih, 1/54]
 
Three Things Harden The Heart

1. Laughing without reason.

2. Eating without being hungry.

3. Talking without reason.

-“Tanbihul Ghafileen” by Abu Layth Samarqandi
 
Amazing advice from Ibn Al-Qayyim رحمه الله

“A friend will not (literally) share your struggles, and a loved one cannot physically take away your pain, and a close one will not stay up the night on your behalf. So look after yourself, protect it, nurture it. Don’t give life’s events more than what they are really worth.

Be certain that when you break, no one will heal you except you; and when you are defeated, no one will give you victory except your own determination. Your ability to stand up again and carry on is your responsibility.

Do not look for your self-worth in the eyes of people; look for your worth from within your conscious. If your conscious is at peace then you will ascend high, and if you truly know yourself then what is said about you won’t harm you.

Do not carry the worries of this life, because this is for Allah. And do not carry the worries of sustenance because it is from Allah. And do not carry the anxiety for the future because it is in the Hands of Allah.

Carry one thing:

How to Please Allah. Because if you please Him, He Pleases you, fulfils you and enriches you. Do not weep from a life that made your heart weep, just say “Oh Allah compensate me with good in this life and the hereafter”.

Sadness departs with a sajdah. Happiness comes with a sincere du'a. Allah does not forget the good you do, nor does He forget the good you did to others and the pain you relieved them from. Nor will He forget the eye which was about to cry but you made it laugh.

Live your life with this principle:

Be good even if you don’t receive good, not because of other’s sake but because Allah loves the good doers".
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Ayyūb Al-Sakhtiyānī – Allāh have mercy on him – said:

Whoever loves Abū Bakr has upheld the religion, whoever loves ‘Umar has made the way clear, whoever loves ‘Uthmān is enlightened by the light of Allāh, and whoever loves ‘Alī has taken the firmest handhold. Whoever speaks well of the Companions of Allāh’s Messenger – Allāh’s peace and blessings be upon him – is clear of hypocrisy, but whoever belittles any one of them or dislikes for something he did, then he is a heretic, an opponent of the Sunnah and the Righteous Predecessors , and it is feared that none of his deeds will be raised to the heavens until he loves all of [them] and his heart is clear towards them.

(Uṣūl Al-Sunnah #189)
 
‘Amr Ibnul 'Aas, رضى الله عنه said,

»لا أملُّ ثوبي ما وسعني، ولا أملُّ زوجتي ما أحسنت عشرتي، ولا أملُّ دابَّتي ما حَمَلَتْني ؛ إنَّ الملال من سيِّىء الأخلاق«.

“I will not get fed up with my clothes so long as they continue to fit me, and I will not get fed up with my wife so long as she is good to me, and I will not get fed up with my ride so long as it continues to carry me. A person who continually becomes bored with things has a deficiency in his character.”

[Taareekh Dimashq]
 
Imam Ahmad rh said,

“If you see anyone speaking ill of the Companions of the Messenger of Allah (sal Allahu alaihi wa sallam), doubt his Islam.”

[Al-Laalikaa’ee in “As-Sunnah”]
 

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