Someone asked Hassan Al Basri: “What is the secret of your piety?” He replied, “I understood 4 things: 1. I understood my rizq (sustenance) cannot be taken by anyone so my heart is content. 2. I understood no one can do my actions (worship) so I started doing them myself. 3. I understood Allaah Ta’ala is watching me, so I felt shame to do wrong. 4. I understood death is waiting for me so I started to prepare for my…
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1. Abstain from the forbidden and you will be the most devout worshipers amongst the people.…
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“Kindess is a mark of faith and whoever is not kind has no faith.” Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him)…
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Listening to music and singing is a sin and cause for the sickening and weakening of the heart. The majority of the scholars of the Salaf are unanimous that listening to music and…
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Serve Allah, and join not any partners with Him; and do good- to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near, neighbours who are strangers, the companion by your…
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One of the blessings of Allah is the clothes that we wear. When brothers and sisters seek to make a change and become ‘practising’, they may begin adopting a more Islamic…