Pearls of Wisdom

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy "Beware of pride the disease of the despots, because indeed pride, avarice and (blameworthy) envy were the first sins through which Allaah was disobeyed". Brief Comment: The Prophet [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] said, “Pride is to reject the truth and mock at the people”. This ref...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. The Prophet [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] said, “I was sent to perfect noble manners”. Al-Allaamah Zayd Bin Haadee Al-Madkhalee [rahimahullaah] said: “This hadeeth is from the Jawaami Al kalim of the Messenger [i.e. a precise statement whose meaning is vast]. In it is proof rega...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. Abdur Rahmaan Ibn Abee Laylah [rahimahullaah] said, “I met a hundred and twenty companions of the Messenger [sallal laahu alayhi wasallam] from the Ansaar and not a single one amongst them was asked something (related to the religion), except that he wished that his brother suffi...

Believers Worship Allaah With Love Allaah [The Most High] said: وَمِنَ النَّاسِ مَن يَتَّخِذُ مِن دُونِ اللّهِ أَندَاداً يُحِبُّونَهُمْ كَحُبِّ اللّهِ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ أَشَدُّ حُبًّا لِّلّهِ And of mankind are some who take (for worship) others besides Allah as rivals (to Allah). They love them as they love Allah. But those who believe, l...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. Sa'eed Bin Jubayr [rahimahullaah] said, “Patience is the person's acknowledgment that what has afflicted him is from Allaah, seeking for reward from Allaah and hoping for Allaah’s good recompense. Indeed, a man maybe in a state of distress whilst he is being whipped, but you see n...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. Imaam Ahmad [rahimahullaah] said: It is obligated on a person that his fear and hope are the same because if one of them is more than the other he is destroyed.” Amongst the scholars are those who say that if you desire to perform an act of obedience, you should have more hope th...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. Allaah tested Prophet Ayyoub [alayhis salaam - i.e. through severe illness and poverty] and Prophet Yaqoob [alayhis salaam] when he lost his two sons [i.e. Yusuf and Binyameen] as well as the effects of the severe grief in his heart. Allaah said: [ وَتَوَلَّىٰ عَنۡہُمۡ وَقَالَ يَ...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. It is obligatory (or befitting) that a person ponders on these affairs: Ponder on the fact that truth is noble and falsehood is lowly. Ponder on the Greatness of Allaah [The Mighty and Majestic]- the fact that Allaah is the Lord of the entire universe, Allaah loves truth and hate...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. A person sees that acknowledging the truth would necessitate an acknowledgment that he was upon falsehood.   A person is nurtured upon a religion, creed, school of thought or views acquired from his nurturer and teacher, which he considers to be the truth and fo...

In The Name of Allaah, The Most Merciful, The Bestower of Mercy. Al-Allaamah Abdur Rahmaan Bin Yahyah Al-Mu’allimee Al-Yamaanee [rahimahullaah] said: “Some of the scholars hold that when the Christians first exaggerated the status of Eesaa [alayhis salaam], the extremists used to accuse everyone who rebuke them that he [i.e. the one who rebutt...