The Invisible Museum

what comes with feeling out of place

[shoo5a]

i want to write again :-(

[asifeq]

Ibnul al-Qayyim [رحمه الله تعالى] said, When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allaah سبحانه و تعالى alone, Allaah will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him. He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him, free his tongue so that it will speak only in remembrance of Him [dhikr], and cause all his faculties to work only in obedience to Him.

But when a person spends his entire day with no other concern but this world, Allaah will make him bear its distress, anxiety and pain. He will leave him to sort himself out, and cause his heart to be distracted from the love of Allaah towards the love of some created being. He will cause his tongue to speak only in remembering people instead of remembering Allaah. He will cause him to use his talents and energy in obeying and serving the people. This person will strive hard, laboring like some work-animal, to serve something other than Allaah. Everyone who turns away from being a true slave of Allaah by obeying and loving Him, will be burdened with servitude to some created being. Allaah says in the Qur’aan:

And whosoever turns away [blinds himself] from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent, We appoint for him a shaitaan to be his Qareen [intimate companion]. (al-Zukhruf:36)

It was narrated that Anas [رضي الله عنه] said that the Prophet [صلى الله عليه و سلم] said: Whoever is mainly concerned about the Hereafter, Allaah will make him feel independent of others and will make him focused and content, and his worldly affairs will fall into place. But whoever is mainly concerned with this world, Allaah will make him feel in constant need of others and will make him distracted and unfocused, and he will get nothing of this world except what is decreed for him.

(Narrated by at-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 2389 and classed as Saheeh by Sheikh Muhammad al-Albaani (رحمه الله تعالى) (Source: al-Fawaa’ id, page 159)

[donkakakaa]

Please, help Daniel pay for his Nursing degree in Rwanda!

Daniel Niyonshuti is a wonderful person who is struggling to pay for his Nursing degree at the University of Rwanda. Daniel lost his parents in the Rwandan genocide in 1994 and spend his entire childhood on the streets, sleeping under bridges, begging and feeding on scraps he found in the trash. Aid workers helped him start school and since then he has worked very hard on getting his education and pursuing his dream of becoming a doctor through his dedicated work and strong faith in God.

Daniel was accepted into the University of Rwanda’s Nursing program and thanks to generous donations, was able to pay for his registration fees and first semester tuition and start his first semester there. He has never been more excited to be in school and study to be a doctor. However, he is due to pay the second installment of his tuition soon and he is finding himself short of about $280 (200,000 Rwandan francs) to cover the installment and room and board. Please, donate to his fundraising campaign (run under my name because gofundme requires the funds to go to an American account - i send them to him via WesternUnion after) here:

https://www.gofundme.com/4c8gd4m72jw

The goal is set at $3,100 in order to help him cover his expenses for all three eyars of his program (estimated to be 600,000 francs tuition + varying sums for room and board and other expenses).

On the fundraising page is Daniel’s recount of his struggle to get to where he is. The page also has a video of him, to further prove the legitimacy of the campaign. Here is a picture of Daniel’s acceptance letter and some pictures of him in university:

Daniel’s schedule (he sometimes doesn’t take very good pictures)

Please donate to the campaign and share it - every dollar helps! Please, keep reblogging this post!

https://www.gofundme.com/4c8gd4m72jw

[anotheraldin]

If Allah should aid you, no one can overcome you; but if He should forsake you, who is there that can aid you after Him? And upon Allah let the believers rely.

-Surah Al-Imran | 3:160.

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

من يرد الله به خيراً يفقه في الدين.When God intends good for someone He gives Him knowledge of the deen (religion).

Prophet Muhammad ﷺ (via islamic-art-and-quotes)

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[islamic-art-and-quotes]

إنما خلقنا الله ليعطينا ، لا ليأخذ مناGod created us to give to us, not to take away from us.

Dr. Mustafa Mahmud (via islamic-art-and-quotes)

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[asifeq]

[islamic-art-and-quotes]

Quran 16:127 – Patience

وَاصْبِرْ وَمَا صَبْرُكَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ

Endure patiently, and your patience can only come through God.

Originally found on: norahabdulhadi

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Quran 65:3 – Surat at-Talaaq

وَمَنْ يَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَى اللَّهِ فَهُوَ حَسْبُهُ

And whosoever places his reliance on God, then God is all that he needs. (Quran 65:3)

Originally found on: elhamdallh

[ummmaymoonah]

أستغفر الله

Narrated: Abu Huraira رضي الله عنه

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said, “Whoever has oppressed another person concerning his reputation or anything else, he should beg him to forgive him before the Day of Resurrection when there will be no money (to compensate for wrong deeds), but if he has good deeds, those good deeds will be taken from him according to his oppression which he has done, and if he has no good deeds, the sins of the oppressed person will be loaded on him.”

- Sahih Bukhari Chapter No: 45, Oppressions (Al-Mazalim)

Hadith no: 638

[anotheraldin]

And We will surely test you with something of fear and hunger and a loss of wealth and lives and fruits, but give good tidings to the patient.

Surah Al-Baqarah | 2:155.

[daphnah]

Getting closer to Allaah azza wa jal by being good to your mother.

From Ibn Abbas –RadhiAllaahu anhu– that a man came to him and said: ‘I proposed to a woman but she refused to marry me, someone else proposed to her and she liked him and married him.  I became jealous over her and I killed her, can I repent from this?’

Ibn ‘Abbas asked: ‘Is your mother alive?’

He answered: ‘No.’

Then Ibn Abbas said: ‘Repent to Allaah –Azza wa Jal- and come close to Him as much as you can.’

The narrator said: I went and asked Ibn ‘Abbas –RadhiAllaahu anhu-: ‘Why did you ask him whether his mother was alive?’

Ibn Abbas –RadhiAllaahu anhu– answered: ‘Indeed I do not know of an action closer to Allaah –Azza wa Jal- than being good to ones mother.’

[Collected by Bukhari in ‘Adab al-Mufrad’ no.4, declared Saheeh by Albaani in ‘Silsilah as-Saheehah’ 2799]

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وَلَا تَهِنُوا وَلَا تَحْزَنُو Do not lose hope, nor be sad.

Qur’an 3:139. (via ibn-3omar)