Good Manners

Rasul Allah, sal Allah alayhi wa sallam, said,
“A believer may achieve the status of one who fasts during
the day regularly and spends the night regularly in prayer:
through his good manners.”

Love’s Drink

Nasheed by Hamud Al Khudr

subhanallah, it’s so beautiful

Rough translation:

The drink of love is known by taste
and not all servers of it are servers

As long as I live I will never forget my God by Him
I elevate in the hereafter the high states (?)

I love Allah with manners and truthfulness
and I do not accept [anything] but piety to be my character

It is to dear to me to abandon love
even if my soul reaches my collar-bone (in its exit)

I left all the creatures of Allah to be by myself
I was occupied away from the creatures by my eagerness

and whom ever known true love
its haram on him to incline towards parting

and how can I not love Allah a single day
when he is the only one in the universes that is everlasting.

دعوني أناجي – مشاري راشد العفاسي

Mishary Rashid al Afasy

أغيبو بصوت – الشيخ مشاري العفاسي

Mishary al-Afasy

Sayyid al Akhlaaq

Sayyid Al-Akhlaaq by Mishary al Afasy

Subhanallah! There is something about this akhi’s voice that really pulls on your heart’s strings :*)

Wisdom for Life

Do not dispute anyone in any matter as far as possible.  For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.  [Imam al Ghazali]

Forgiveness

Rasul Allah (SAWS) said,

“There was once a merchant who would lend money to people. 
Whenever the person he lent money to was in difficult circumstances,
he would say to his employees, ‘Forgive him so that Allah may forgive us.’
So, Allah forgave him.”

– Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 3, Hadith 292

This sounds familiar:

“And there is the type of man who gives his life to earn the pleasure of Allah. And Allah is full of kindness to (His) devotees. O ye who believe! Enter into Islam whole-heartedly; and follow not the footsteps of the evil one; for he is to you an avowed enemy.”

Quran (2:207-208)

Persevere in Patience

“O ye who believe! Persevere in patience and constancy; vie in such perseverance; strengthen each other; and fear Allah. that ye may prosper.”

Quran (3:200)

Prescription for Paradise

“Ye shall certainly be tried and tested in your possessions and in your personal selves; and ye shall certainly hear much that will grieve you, from those who received the Book before you and from those who worship many gods. But if ye persevere patiently, and guard against evil,-then that will be a determining factor in all affairs.”

Quran (3:186)