Fasting in Ramadan strikes direct blows at the soul’s pharaoh-like front, shattering it. It demonstrates its impotence, weakness, and want. It makes it realize that it is a slave.
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The most luminous Night of Power of this dark worldly life is Ramadan.
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If you wish to nourish enmity, then direct it against the enmity in your heart, and attempt to rid yourself of it.
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It is seriousness and truthfulness (ṣidq) that attach lofty morals and noble traits to reality and keep them alive. If truthfulness (ṣidq) departs and falsehood enters, then—like leaves tossed about by the winds—that person becomes a plaything in the hands of people.
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Weakness is the source of calling; need is the source of dua (supplication).
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If a person’s good points are greater in regard to quality or quantity than his bad points, he is deserving of love and respect.
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“The most delicate and most compassionate of hearts is the heart of a woman, referred to as the ‘second sex.’”
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Do not gaze at non-mahram people because, as Imam Shafi’i (r.a.), says, haram gaze leads to forgetfulness.
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Why do you not go into this great trade? The Munificent Lord wants to buy from you the property you hold so that He can guard it for you and it will not be lost.
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The recitation of the Quran has a sublime fluency that is easy on the tongue.
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Worship is a subtle, elevated relation, an illustrious lofty connection between the bondsman and the One Worshipped. This relation constitutes the utmost degree of human perfection.
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That is, one who does not have all the stars within his grasp cannot have mastery over a single particle.
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Living with piety (taqwa) and intending to avoid sin counts as doing hundreds of good deeds.
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Youth, which is the source of pleasure, passes away; while old age, the source of sorrow, takes its place.
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To claim a right before those who suppose wrong to be right, is a sort of wrong. I do not want to perpetrate such a wrong.
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WAKE UP! Wake up before the pangs of death awaken you.
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For to love God is to do what pleases Him, and the things that please Him are manifested in most perfect form in the person of Muhammad (pbuh).
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The way to attain to this embodiment of mercy who is a mercy to all the worlds is to utter the prayer calling down Allah’s blessings upon him (ṣallallāhu ʿalayhi wa sallam). Indeed, the meaning of this prayer is mercy.
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At the end of time, mankind will spill into science and learning. It will obtain all its strength from science. Power and rule will pass to the hand of science.
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But he had been accorded a Trust that was connected to the whole universe and had been given a light that would change the colour of the universe.
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The prescribed prayers are a universal index of the sorts of thanks.
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They take pride and pleasure at the evils and wicked immorality of the swamp of misguidance, being gratified at the harms and crimes of the darkness of evil-doing; quite simply they take on the nature of Satan. Indeed, a definitive proof for the existence of the jinn-devils is the existence of human devils.
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But the true skill is that when one sees his brother in a bad situation, he does not abandon him, but strengthens their brotherhood and tries to reform him. This is the mark of the loyal and faithful.
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The believer acquires a nature worthy of Paradise and the unbeliever a nature conforming to Hell.
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If in meaning illness had not been good, the All-Compassionate Creator would not have given it to the servants He loves most.
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To show mercy and serve those are worthy of them is a hasanah, a good deed.
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The prescribed prayers are a comprehensive, luminous index of all varieties of worship, and a sacred map pointing to all the shades of worship of all the classes of creatures.
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A learned guide should be a sheep, not a bird. A sheep gives its lamb milk while a bird gives its chick regurgitated food.
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There are many major sins, but the greatest “seven deadly ones” are: murder, fornication, alcohol, disobedience to parents, gambling, perjury, and supporting innovations that damage the religion.
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A man takes a wife and undertakes to provide for her. A woman takes a husband, loads her livelihood on him, and this makes up for deficiency in what she inherits.
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O Muslims, do not be deceived, do not bow your heads! A tarnished, matchless diamond is always superior to a piece of glistening glass.
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Du’a (supplication) is a form of worship, and its reward is in the Afterlife.
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He who admits his faults seeks forgiveness for them; he who seeks forgiveness takes refuge with Allah. He who takes refuge with Allah is saved from Satan’s evil.
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Despair is like cancer: the deadliest disease upon nations and peoples.
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When you interfere with that body outside the circle of command of the True Owner, you cause harm.
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If we display the true Islam, and the honesty and sincerity worthy of it, many people will enter into it in multitudes.
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The Night of the Prophet’s (pbuh) Ascension is the equivalent of a second Night of Power. Working this night as much as one possibly can causes a thousandfold increase in spiritual gains.
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Truthfulness is the foundation of Islam, the bond of its sublime qualities, and the characteristic of its sublime disposition. Therefore, we must revive truthfulness, which is the foundation of our social life, within ourselves and cure our spiritual illnesses with it.
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“The life and happiness of his home and family are possible through genuine, earnest, and loyal respect and true, tender, and self-sacrificing compassion.”
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“If a single sūrah Yā-sīn is recited and gifted to millions of souls, a complete Yā-sīn reaches each and every one of them.”
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There are among the narrations many that strongly encourage thanks and remembrance of Allah at festival times, in order to prevent heedlessness from prevailing and deviation into the illicit.
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All rivers, springs, streams and great waterways flow forth from the treasury of mercy of the compassionate one, the lord of glory and generosity.
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“There is a great mystery in the prayers they perform in congregation and in their other acts of worship: each individual gains from the congregation a reward far greater than what he earns from his own worship alone.”
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“Utter abhorrence and a thousand regrets should be felt for those who take the way of misguidance due to the europeans’ idols and sciences of naturalism, and for those who follow them and imitate them blindly!”
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“Despair is the obstacle to all perfection. ‘What is it to me? Let others think about it’ is a legacy of despotism.”
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Calamities are lashes of Divine decree, driving man toward the Divine Presence.
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“The oneness of faith demands the unity of hearts; and unity of creed necessitates unity in society.”
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“To the sheep sacrificed as an offering, he grants in the hereafter a permanent corporeal body, and rewards it by making it, upon the ṣirāṭ, a mount like burāq for its owner.”
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