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Narrated Sa`d:

A man peeped into the house of the Prophet (ﷺ) through a hole while the Prophet (ﷺ) was scratching his head with a Midrai (a certain kind of comb). On that the Prophet (ﷺ) said (to him), "If I had known you had been looking, then I would have pierced your eye with that instrument, because the asking of permission has been ordained so that one would not see things unlawfully."

Sahih al-Bukhari 5924

حَدَّثَنَا آدَمُ بْنُ أَبِي إِيَاسٍ، حَدَّثَنَا ابْنُ أَبِي ذِئْبٍ، عَنِ الزُّهْرِيِّ، عَنْ سَهْلِ بْنِ سَعْدٍ، أَنَّ رَجُلاً، اطَّلَعَ مِنْ جُحْرٍ فِي دَارِ النَّبِيِّ صلى الله عليه وسلم وَالنَّبِيُّ صلى الله عليه وسلم يَحُكُّ رَأْسَهُ بِالْمِدْرَى فَقَالَ ‏ "‏ لَوْ عَلِمْتُ أَنَّكَ تَنْظُرُ لَطَعَنْتُ بِهَا فِي عَيْنِكَ، إِنَّمَا جُعِلَ الإِذْنُ مِنْ قِبَلِ الأَبْصَارِ ‏"‌‏.‏

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لا تفقد علمك في الذنوبِ

Don't lose your knowledge due to sin

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Abdullah bin `Umar said, "Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) took hold of my shoulder and said, 'Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a traveler." The sub-narrator added: Ibn `Umar used to say, "If you survive till the evening, do not expect to be alive in the morning, and if you survive till the morning, do not expect to be alive in the evening, and take from your health for your sickness, and (take) from your life for your death."

[Sahih al-Bukhari, 6416]

Chapter 3: "Be in this world as if you were a stranger.", Book 81: To make the Heart Tender (Ar-Riqaq)

حَدَّثَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ، حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ أَبُو الْمُنْذِرِ الطُّفَاوِيُّ، عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ الأَعْمَشِ، قَالَ حَدَّثَنِي مُجَاهِدٌ، عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ عُمَرَ ـ رضى الله عنهما ـ قَالَ أَخَذَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم بِمَنْكِبِي فَقَالَ ‏ "‏ كُنْ فِي الدُّنْيَا كَأَنَّكَ غَرِيبٌ، أَوْ عَابِرُ سَبِيلٍ ‏"‌‏.‏ وَكَانَ ابْنُ عُمَرَ يَقُولُ إِذَا أَمْسَيْتَ فَلاَ تَنْتَظِرِ الصَّبَاحَ، وَإِذَا أَصْبَحْتَ فَلاَ تَنْتَظِرِ الْمَسَاءَ، وَخُذْ مِنْ صِحَّتِكَ لِمَرَضِكَ، وَمِنْ حَيَاتِكَ لِمَوْتِكَ‏.‏ (صحيح البخاري، حديث رقم ٦٤١٦)

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رفقا بالقوارير

Be gentle with the (precious) ‘vessels’ as the prophet صلي الله عليه وسلم beautifully described women to be.

عَنْ أَنَسِ بْنِ مَالِكٍ، قَالَ كَانَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم فِي سَفَرٍ، وَكَانَ مَعَهُ غُلاَمٌ لَهُ أَسْوَدُ، يُقَالُ لَهُ أَنْجَشَةُ، يَحْدُو، فَقَالَ لَهُ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم ‏ "‏ وَيْحَكَ يَا أَنْجَشَةُ رُوَيْدَكَ بِالْقَوَارِيرِ ‏"‏‏.‏

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) was on a journey and he had a black slave called Anjasha, and he was driving the camels (very fast, and there were women riding on those camels). Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Waihaka (May Allah be merciful to you), O Anjasha! Drive slowly (the camels) with the glass vessels (women)!"

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“Whoever among you would like to know whether he has been afflicted with fitnah or not, let him examine. If what he used to consider harām (based on clear proof and not desires) is now considered halāl to him, and what he used to consider halāl (based on clear proof and not desires) is now considered harām to him, then indeed he has been afflicted with fitnah."

[Hilyatul Awliyā’ 1/272]

اللَّهُمَّ حَبِّبْ إِلَيْنَا الْإِيمَانَ وَزَيِّنْهُ فِي قُلُوبِنَا وَكَرِهَ إِلَيْنَا الْكُفْرَ وَالْفُسُوقَ وَالْعِصْيَانَ

O Allāh, make īmān beloved to us and beautify it in our hearts, and make disbelief, wickedness, and disobedience hateful to us.”

[Muslim]

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If you only knew how quickly people would forget you after your death, you would not have dedicated a day to please anyone but Allah.

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Shaykh al-Islâm ibn Taymiyyah said:

When the woman is married, her husband has more ownership to her than her parents, and obedience to the husband is more obligatory upon her.

So she cannot leave from his house except with his permission, even if she was commanded by her father, her mother, or other than her parents, by the agreement of the scholars.

[Majmû’ al-Fatâwâ]

قال شيخ الإسلام ابن تيمية رحمه الله تعالى في الفتاوى: المرأة إذا تزوجت، كان زوجها أملك بها من أبويها، وطاعة زوجها عليها أوجب.

فليس لها أن تَخرُج من منزله إلا بإذنه، سواء أَمَرَها أبوها أو أمُّها أو غيرُ أبويها، باتِّفاق الأئمَّة

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Abdullah ibn Mas'ud said: "None of you should blindly follow (Taqleed) another man in regards to his religion, if he [one being followed] believes then he believes, and if he disbelieves then he disbelieves. If you had to blindly follow someone, then take those who have passed away as examples, for indeed those who are alive are not safe from Fitnah." (Tabarani al-Mu'jam al-Kabir; 8764)

عَنْ عَبْدِ اللَّهِ بْنِ مَسْعُودٍ قَالَ : لَا يُقَلِّدَنَّ أَحَدُكُمْ دِينَهُ رَجُلًا ، فَإِنْ آمَنَ آمَنَ ، وَإِنْ كَفَرَ كَفَرَ ، وَإِنْ كُنْتُمْ لَا بُدَّ مُقْتَدِينَ فَاقْتَدُوا بِالْمَيِّتِ ; فَإِنَّ الْحَيَّ لَا يُؤْمَنُ عَلَيْهِ الْفِتْنَةُ. (الطبراني في المعجم الكبير؛ ٨٧٦٤)

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Shaykh ‘Abdullâh as-Sa’d said:

If the woman leaves [her house], then she has to do so without putting perfume, according to the saying of the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم: "They leave while putting no perfume."

And what enters into that [statement] is nice clothes, and similar to that are things that are a cause to fitnah.

Abû Muhammad ibn Hazm said: And it is not allowed for them to leave with perfume, and in nice clothes.

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Via Lanterns of Tawheed

This “men vs women” mindset that we see being spread and becoming increasingly common, even among Muslims, is a Western concept, spewed as a result of their cursed liberal ideologies and lifestyles. It is not Islāmic, but rather is against the brotherhood our religion teaches.

Allāh سبحانه وتعالى says:

وَٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَٱلْمُؤْمِنَـٰتُ بَعْضُهُمْ أَوْلِيَآءُ بَعْضٍ ۚ يَأْمُرُونَ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمُنكَرِ وَيُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤْتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَيُطِيعُونَ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥٓ ۚ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ سَيَرْحَمُهُمُ ٱللَّهُ ۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ

“The believing men and believing women are allies of one another. They enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and establish prayer and give zakāh and obey Allāh and His Messenger. Those - Allāh will have mercy upon them. Indeed, Allāh is Exalted in Might and Wise.” [At-Tawbah]

Treat and view your fellow Muslims as if they are your siblings, because they truly are. Lower your wing of humility to them and show them respect as they deserve and overlook their faults. In your interaction with your brethren, one must have each others best interests in mind and assume the best regarding them, even in disagreements.

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"No amount of fabric can cover a woman that wants to be seen."

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"Not the nudity and tight clothes of women should surprise us, surprising is, that they leave houses where men live!!"

- Jealousy died among men, so modesty committed suicide in women.

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Ibn al-Jawzī رحمه الله said: “Whoever loves that his actions are not severed after he dies, then he should spread knowledge.”

[At-Tadhkirah, No. 55]

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When the crusaders entered Andalus, one of the first things they did was burn the books. When they conquered Andalus, a bishop with his hatred to Islām took eighty thousand books to the public square of Qurtubah and burned them all in one day. Then in 646 after the hijrah, they burned the rest of the books for the Muslims. Why? Because they knew affirmatively that this is what uplifts this Ummah – knowledge and mainly we are talking about the knowledge of the Sharī’ah and the sciences of Islām. As long as they have this knowledge, this Ummah will remain strong. They wanted to or they thought that they can take the Ummah away from this knowledge and away from its roots by burning their books.

Little did they know the outline for the Ummah is in our hearts, and that they can never get to. It is not in ink and paper, it is in our hearts.

- Shaykh Ahmad Mūsā Jibrīl حفظه الله

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He [I.e: Ibn Taymiyyah] said to me:

وقال لي مرة:

What can my enemies possibly do to me? My paradise is in my heart; wherever I go it goes with me, inseparable from me.

For me, prison is a place of [religious] retreat; execution is my opportunity for martyrdom;

and exile from my town is but a chance to travel [in the path of Allah].”

ما يصنع أعدائي بي؟ أنا جنتي وبستاني في صدري، إن رحت فهي معي لا تفارقني، إن حبسي خلوة، وقتلي شهادة، وإخراجي من بلدي سياحة.

[Ibn al-Qayyim, al-Wābil al Sayyib 1/48]

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This world is the place of striving and the Hereafter is the place of reward or punishment, where the believers will be rewarded with Paradise and the disbelievers will be punished with Hell.

Paradise is good and none but those who were good will enter it. Allaah is Good and accepts nothing but that which is good. So the way of Allaah with His slaves is to test them with calamities and tribulations, so that the believer may be known from the kaafir and so that the truthful may be distinguished from the liar, as

Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning):

أَحَسِبَ ٱلنَّاسُ أَن يُتْرَكُوٓا۟ أَن يَقُولُوٓا۟ ءَامَنَّا وَهُمْ لَا يُفْتَنُونَ

Do the people think that they will be left to say, "We believe" and they will not be tried?

And:

وَلَقَدْ فَتَنَّا ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ ۖ فَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ صَدَقُوا۟ وَلَيَعْلَمَنَّ ٱلْكَـٰذِبِينَ

Indeed We have tested those who were before them. So Allah will surely know the ones who are truthful, and He will surely know the liars. (although Allaah knows all that before putting them to test)”

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Sufyān ath-Thawrī رحمة الله عليه said: "The fewer people you know, the less you will gossip."

Siyar A'lām an-Nubalā. Vol 5 Pg 62 - Imām adh-dhahabī رحمه الله