Drops Of Wisdom

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:25:22 +0000

You must thank God for all that He has favored you with, you have no good thing, whether outward or inward, religious or worldly, but it comes from Him. [Imam al Haddad]

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 00:21:36 +0000

Those who are the elect of Adam’s children breathe the breath of “We have wronged ourselves.” Display your need for God——do not argue like the impudent and accursed Iblis. [Mawlana Rumi]

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:37:14 +0000

A poet said:

If your sins are paining you they need to be treated,
By raising your hands in prayer before the dark night is completed.

Of the Mercy of God, you should never despair!
For your despairing is far greater than your sins, [beware]!

His Mercy to the righteous is tremendous generosity,
But His Mercy to the sinners is unmatched nobility.

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:47:32 +0000

‘Aisha (radhiallaahu `anha):

A man came to her and asked ‘When will I know that I am pious?’ She said, ‘When you realise that you are a sinner.’ He said, ‘And when will I know I am a sinner?’ She replied, ‘When you think you are pious.’

- Tanbeeh al-Ghafileen

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:27:43 +0000

‘Abd al-Malik, the son of ‘Umar bin ‘Abd al-’Aziz, said to his father: “O father, why are you not forthcoming in people’s affairs? By Allah, I do not care about anything else when it comes to implementing the truth, even if everyone were to despise us for it.” So, ‘Umar said to him: “O son, do not be hasty! For Allah - the Exalted - discouraged the consumption of alcohol in the Qur’an twice, and finally forbade it the third time, and I am afraid that I would burden the people with all of the truth at once, causing them to reject it, and this would be a trial for them.”‘

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:01:00 +0000

‘Umar bin ‘Abd al-’Aziz used to say: “None can reach the state of taqwa until he possesses neither actions nor words that can be exposed to his embarrassment, either in this World or the Hereafter.”

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:53:02 +0000

Abu Hurayrah said:“The slave will be brought between the Hands of Allah - the Exalted - on the Day of Resurrection, and Allah will Say to him: ‘Did you love one of my awliya’, so that I can join you with him?’“

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:52:12 +0000

Mujahid said: “Those who love each other for Allah’s Sake, when they smile at each other, their sins fall from each other, just as the leaves fall from a tree before the winter.”

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:51:39 +0000

Ibn as-Sammak said, on his deathbed: “O Allah! You Know that, even if I had disobeyed You, I loved those who obeyed You! So, make this for me a means of nearness to You!”

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:48:25 +0000

Ibn-ul-Qayyim said, “The year is like a tree, months are its branches, days are the branch sticks, hours are its leaves, and the breaths are its fruits. Therefore, if one’s breaths are in obedience [to Allah and His Messenger], the fruits of his tree are good. If they are in disobedience, his fruits are bitter. The harvest is on the Appointed Day, when one’s fruits are found out to be either good or bitter.”