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oh how the horror of existence eats away at my heart but look how i cling on to the simplest acts of compassion, kind gestures, easy natural connections. bitter as i am i can't help looking at the world as if it's handmade just for me. i love loving, i love loving people. i love a soft love. no drama. no loudness. no doors being slammed. a silent love. steeped into the heart like a strong tea. jasmine scented. a love nurtured and moulded delicately with sturdy hands on a potter's wheel. a love made with love. a love to live for. a love that makes you want to stay alive, for tiny birds and the sky, for the ocean and the charcoal night. dying is no feat, we die all the time. if you are a lover, you must do the unthinkable, you must live. for you will be remembered and you will be immortalized in every bit of beauty that ever graces this earth.

[weltenwellen]

Hanif Abdurraqib, In an Interview with Krista Tippett

[ibroughtyoumybullets]

sunday is just i have to set my computer on fire i have to do laundry i have to find god i have to make tea i have to quit my job and start a new life in a different state i have to be more honest with the people around me i have to clean my room i have to cut my hair i have to be more deliberate with my hobbies and downtime i have to make a doctors appointment i have to go back to therapy i have to start dating i have to make more friends i have to go on a long drive i have to spend 4 hours disassociating in a target i have to paint my nails i have to tell my mother i love her. but instead i will simply sit. 

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you have to admit there are some joys in life that can only be felt due to hardship. a common example is steaming hot showers. it takes a cold day, or a sickness, for someone to experience the joy of a hot shower. you can’t enjoy it in the heat. then there’s the joy of a fulfilling sleep, often achieved through a tiring day. and there’s the joy of a reunion, achieved through separation. and there are many more examples. sometimes difficulty carries a special range of joys and that’s something to be thankful about.

[aqlamoon]

Handful of English Book Studies

Classes for some essential books. Posted 27 Shawwal, 1437 [01/08/2016].

1) Kitaab at-Tawheed (The Book of Islaamic Monotheism)

Taught by Moosa Richardson using Shaykh al-Fawzaan’s explanation: 58 lessons with 237pg PDF summary booklet:  http://www.troid.ca/index.php/aqeedah/tawheed/comprehensive-study/1085-explanation-of-kitaab-at-towheed-class-audio 

Taught in Arabic by Sheikh Saleh al-Luhaydan translation by Mustafa George: 59 lessons: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2012/09/01/kitab-at-tawheed-explained-by-shaykh-saleh-al-luhaidan-mp3ar-en/  

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using Shaykh Al-Uthaymeen’s explanation: 59 lessons: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/22/beneficial-sayings-from-kitaab-ut-tawheed-dr-saleh-as-saleh/ 

2) Usool ath Thalaathah (The 3 Fundamental Principles)

Taught by Abu Talah Dawud Burbank using Shaykh Fawzaan’s explanation: 50 lessons with PDF notes for each lesson:  https://abdurrahman.org/2015/03/05/sharh-usool-ith-thalaathah-shaykh-fawzan-dawud-burbank/ 

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using explanations by Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen (rahimahullaah) and Shaykh Bin Baaz (rahimahullaah): 43 lessons: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/11/06/the-three-fundamental-principles-dr-saleh-as-saleh/ 

Arabic Audio of Usool ath Thalaathah 22m:15s: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/24/usool-thalatha-the-three-principles-arabic-audio-text/ 

3) Tafsir ibn Kathir

Read by Aboo Hakeem Bilal Davis: 98 lessons: http://www.salafisounds.com/tafsir-ibn-kathir-by-abu-hakeem-bilal-davis/

4) Imaam Nawawi 40 Hadeeth

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using Shaykh Ibn ‘Uthaymeen’s explanation: 41 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/11/09/an-nawawi-40-hadeeth-dr-saleh-as-saleh/

5) Al-Aqeedat Al-Waasitiyyah

Taught in Arabic by Shaykh al-Luhaydaan, translated by Mustafa George: 20 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/23/aqeedatul-waasitiyyah-of-ibn-taymiyyah-shaykh-luhaydaan/

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem using the explanation of Shaykh Abdul Azeez Rashid: 79 classes: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2013/04/21/sharh-al-aqeedat-il-wasitiyah-of-shaykh-al-islam-ibn-taymiyyah-taqweem-aslam/

6) Kashf al-Shubuhaat (Removal of Doubts)

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem: 14 classes:  http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2012/08/28/kashf-ash-shubuhaat-the-removal-of-doubts-bolton/

Taught by Moosa Richardson: 10 classes, 34pg annotated PDF: https://www.troid.ca/index.php/aqeedah/tawheed/comprehensive-study/1678-explanation-of-kashf-ash-shubuhaat-class-audio

7) Luma'tul I'tiqaad (Sufficiency in Creed)

Taught by Dawood Ibn Ronald Burbank, using the explanation of Shaykh Fawzaan: 66 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/24/explanation-of-lumat-ul-itiqaad-sufficiency-in-creed-dawood-burbank/

PDF 235pgs: Questions and Answer study guide to go with above classes: https://islamthestudyguides.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/lumah-questions-and-answers.pdf

8) Usool us-Sittah (The Six Fundamental Principles)

Taught by Abu Iyaad, using explanations by Shaykh Ahmad an-Najmee and Shaykh Ubayd al-Jaabiree: 29 classes: Extra resources: PDF Mindmaps, Class transcripts, English text:  https://www.troid.ca/index.php/aqeedah/tawheed/comprehensive-study/1563-explanation-of-al-usool-as-sittah-class-audio

9) Usool us-Sunnah (The Foundations of the Sunnah)

Taught by Abu Muadh Taqweem using the explanation of Shaykh Rabee: 21 classes: http://www.learnaboutislam.co.uk/2016/01/02/shaykh-rabees-explanation-of-imam-ahmads-usool-us-sunnah-read-by-abu-muadh-taqweem/

Taught by Abu Khadeejah: 5 classes:  http://store.mpubs.org/explanation-of-usool-us-sunnah-of-imaam-ahmad-by-abu-khadeejah-abdul-wahid/

English Text 178pg PDF: Foundations of the Sunnah Imaam Ahmad:  http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/09/22/foundations-of-the-sunnah-usool-us-sunnah-imam-ahmad/

10) Sharh us-Sunnah (Explanation of the Creed)

Taught in Arabic by Shaykh Fawzaan, translated by Dawood Ibn Ronald Burbank: 84 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2011/10/01/audio-sharh-us-sunnah-dawud-ibn-ronald-burbank/

Taught by Mustafa George: 8 classes: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2010/12/16/online-class-sharhu-sunnah-by-imam-al-barbaharee-by-mustafa-george-hafidahullah/

11) Fiqhul Ibadaat (Understanding Worship)

Taught by Dr Saleh as Saleh using the explanation of Shaykh Ibn Uthaymeen: 6 Classes, 178pg PDF Book: http://salaf-us-saalih.com/2014/12/05/understanding-worship-fiqhul-ibaadaat-qa-format-ibn-uthaymeen-dr-saleh-as-saleh/

May Allaah reward the students and the scholars (past and present) with much good, those who have made these classes free and accessible.

If there are any issues or errors then please do let me know, I will try my very best to rectify them. 

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are you guys still on here

[umm-alfadl]

Sh. al-Albaani رحمه الله

“If I really love you for the sake of Allaah, I will give you advice and likewise you’ll do the same for me. This act of giving advice is very rare amongst those who claim that they love each other for the sake of Allaah. It may be that there is some sincerity in their love, but it is not complete. Therefore, every one of us should safeguard the other, and in this case the valuable thing to be given due to loving one another for the sake of Allaah is that everyone sincerely advises one another, by enjoining good and forbidding evil – always and forever.”

الحاوي من فتاوي الألباني

[ibn-3omar]

قال السعدي رحمه الله : (وَبِالأسْحَارِ) التي هي قبيل الفجر (هُمْ يَسْتَغْفِرُونَ) الله تعالى ، فمدوا صلاتهم إلى السحر ، ثم جلسوا في خاتمة قيامهم بالليل ، يستغفرون الله تعالى ، استغفار المذنب لذنبه ، وللاستغفار بالأسحار ، فضيلة وخصيصة ، ليست لغيره ، كما قال تعالى في وصف أهل الإيمان والطاعة : (وَالْمُسْتَغْفِرِينَ بِالأسْحَارِ) آل عمران/17 “ 

As-Sa‘di  said:“And in the hours before dawn”, which is just before dawn “they were (found) asking (Allah) for forgiveness”. So they made their prayer last until the time just before dawn, then they sat, concluding their night-time worship (qiyaam al-layl) by asking Allah, may He be exalted, for forgiveness, in the manner of a sinner seeking forgiveness for his sins. There is a special virtue in praying for forgiveness in the time before dawn that is not present at any other time, as Allah, may He be exalted, says describing the people of faith and obedience (interpretation of the meaning):“and those who pray and beg Allah’s Pardon in the last hours of the night” [Aal ‘Imraan 3:17].

— Tafseer as-Sa‘di p. 809 - تفسير السعدي 

[bintsameer]

Ibn al-Jawzi: 

Understand that life has occasions. One time it is poverty, and another time it is wealth. Once it is honour, and another it is humiliation. Happy is he is who remains grounded in each situation.

[Sayd al-Khatir p.282 | Source]

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I was enjoining you to do good, but wasn’t doing it myself; and I was forbidding you to do evil, but was doing it myself.

Person in Hell, Saheeh Muslim #2989 (via hassan-ibn-abdul-qadir)

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Whoever has no shyness, has nothing of humanity left with them, except for flesh and blood.

Ibn al-Qayyim, Miftah Dar as-Sa’adah (p. 277)

[hassan-ibn-abdul-qadir]

Before going to sleep

“Whoever recites ten verses at night will not be recorded as one of the heedless.”

— The Prophetﷺ | Sahih al-Targheeb (2/81)

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It’s hard sometimes, but it’s important to remember.

[sensitve1992]

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[twocrowns]

Learn to suffer a little for the love of God without telling everyone about it.

St. Teresa of Avila. (via chador-lover)