al-Imam ibn al-Qayyim رحمه الله said,
"There is nothing more beneficial for the heart than dealing kindly with people, and loving good for them."
[Madarij as-Salikin, 2/511]
“There is no love like marriage; being married to your beloved is the cure for desire, which Allah has made lawful and destined.”
📚 Al-Da’ wa al-Dawa’ | Ibn al-Qayyim, 554
i just got this odd little book, it's roughly the size of a passport
this photographer went around calling the biggest european companies, asking to show up at their office and shoot their boardroom
this is unilever in 1993
A Neglected Aspect of Usul al-Hadith: Determining Mawquf from Marfu'
You might think this is as easy as looking at whether the Prophet (SAW) is mentioned or not, but you would be wrong.
A few students were asking what is ICMA (Isnad-Cum-Matn-Analysis), so here's a dumbed down summary.
For traditional scholars, think of ICMA as taking a hadith, gathering all the chain of narrations as well as the matn and then - although each orientalist will use it…
Finished writing my article titled Applied Usul al-Hadith: blog.fussilat.com/applied-usul-a…
This is, In sha Allah, a better way of learning and teaching Usul al-Hadith after basic Mustalah (in English).
"If you live, you will be struck with the loss of all your loved ones
Yet the survival of your own soul, by Allah, is the greatest calamity."
May Allah shower them both with vast mercy.
One of my favourite hadith
The concept that Allaah decreed the destiny of our souls, and we will inevitably become beloved to those our souls felt affinity towards
It's exceptionally rare for former Chinese officials to reveal the inner workings of the system, all the more so when it involves detailing the mechanics of China's famous 5-year plans.
Dong Yu, interviewed by the SCMP (link: scmp.com/economy/policy…) helped draft China's 11th,…
"Stroking the sword while lamenting the social realities," originally calligraphed in sixteen fold script by Shen Qianqiu, digitized by me. https://t.co/zMinaoTOnK
Imam Ibn al-Qayyim mentions:
"Grief weakens the heart, diminishes resolve, and harms the will. And there is nothing the devil loves more than the grief of a believer."
📚 Tariq al-Hijratayn 2/607
Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728) writes about the Greek philosophers:
أوتوا ذكاء
وما أوتوا زكاء
“They have been given intelligence (Ḏakāʾ),
but they have been deprived of spiritual purification (zakāʾ).”
[Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, 3/63].
Ibn Taymiyyah (d. 728) writes about the Greek philosophers:
أوتوا ذكاء
وما أوتوا زكاء
“They have been given intelligence (Ḏakāʾ),
but they have been deprived of spiritual purification (zakāʾ).”
[Majmūʿ al-Fatāwā, 3/63].
Ibn al-Rāwandī was known for his intelligence, yet he went astray & authored ‘al-Dāmigh’ in an attempt to challenge the Qur’ān. Al-Dhahabī ended his biography in Siyar saying: “May Allāh curse intelligence without faith, and May He be pleased with dimness when joined with Taqwá.”
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