[Quote] While You’re Asleep …

Khalaf ibn Hishaam, one of the reciters of the ten dialects, said, “I went to Sulaim ibn Isa to recite to him. One day when reciting I reached Surah Ghaafir and when I got to the Most High’s Statement:

“Those [angels] who carry the Throne and those around it exalt [Allah] with praise of their Lord and believe in Him and ask forgiveness for those who have believed, [saying], “Our Lord! You have encompassed all things in mercy and knowledge! So forgive those who have repented and followed Your way and protect them from the punishment of Hellfire!” [Ghaafir 40:7]

He started crying severely, and then said to me, ‘O Khalaf! Don’t you see how great the right of a believer is? You will see him sleeping on his bed and the Angels are seeking forgiveness for him.’”

Wafayaatul-A’yaan, 2/142.

[Quote] Sulaim Ibn Itr

Ibn Kathir said, “And one of the most extraordinary things is what Abu Ubaid related from Sa’eed Ibn Ufair from Bakr Ibn Mudar, [which was that] Sulaim ibn Itr At-Tujini would finish reciting the entire Quraan three times in one night and would also have marital relations with his wife three times in the same night.

When he passed away, his wife said, ‘May Allaah have mercy on you. You used to please your Lord and satisfy your family.’ She was asked, ‘How so?’ She replied:

‘He would stand to pray in the night and then finish the entire Quraan, then he would have marital relations with his wife and then perform ghusl. Then he would go back and recite until he finished the entire Quraan, then he would have marital relations with his wife and then perform ghusl. Then [again] he would go back and recite until he finished the entire Quraan, and then have marital relations with his wife, then perform ghusl and leave for the morning prayer.’

I [Ibn Kathir] say: Sulaim ibn Itr was a most distinct taabi’i, trustworthy and noble. He was a Qadi in Egypt during the reign of Mu’awiyah … Abu Haatim said that he narrated from [the Companion] Abud-Dardaa … and Ka’b Ibn Alqamah said, “Sulaim ibn Itr was one of the best of the Taabi’een.’”

Tafseer Ibn Kathir, vol. 1, p. 81.

Source: Gifts of Knowledge

[Fatawa] Praying for Allah to heal non-Muslims is permissible / Explained by the Permanent Committee of Scholars

Question: Is it permissible for those who utilize the Quran to treat the sick; to recite the

Quran to treat non-Muslims?

Answer: It is permissible to treat non-Muslims with the Quran if they are not combatants at war with the Muslims; and if it is done in a manner in which the non-Muslim does not handle the Mushaf. This treatment is implemented by reciting the Quran over them, and praying to Allah to heal them and guide them.

And with Allah lies all success and may the salutations and peace of Allah be upon our Prophet Muhammad, and Muhammad’s family and companions.

Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee

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Source: Alifta

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[Fatawa] The Danger of saying “Allah knows I did such and such” / explained by Shaykh Uthaymeen رحمه الله

Question: “What is the ruling on the statement some of the people say: “Allah knows
such and such?”

Shaykh Uthaymeen: The statement: “Allah knows” is a dangerous affair, such that I
saw in the books of the Hanafis that whoever says about something “Allah knows”—
while the affair is in contrast to what he has said—becomes a disbeliever outside the
fold of Islam.

If you say “Allah knows surely I did not do this” while you actually did it, this
necessitates that Allah is ignorant of the affair.

(For example if you say) “Allah knows I did not visit so and so” and you visited them,
the result is that Allah did not know what happen. And it is known that whoever
negates knowledge for Allah has disbelieved.

For this reason As Shafi’i رحمه الله said concerning the Qadariyah: “Argue with them
concerning the knowledge (of Allah) if they deny it they have disbelieved and if they
affirm it they have been defeated in the argument.”

The statement “Allah knows” if the person says it while the reality is in contrast to what he is saying then that is extremely dangerous, and it is Haram without doubt. But if what he says is correct and the affair is in accordance with what he said then there is no problem with this because he is truthful in his statement, and because Allah has full knowledge of all affairs. As the Messengers said:

قَالُوا رَبُّنَا يَعْلَمُ إِنَّا إِلَيْكُمْ لَمُرْسَلُونَ

They said: "Our Lord knows that we have been sent to you as Messengers. 

(Soorah Yā-Sīn 36:16)

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Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee

Masjid Tawheed was-Sunnah in Durham, NC

[Quote] Patience is not enough you must seek the reward / Explained by Shaykh Uthaymeen

Shaykh Uthaymeen said (1): In some instances a person is patient when a calamity befalls but they do not anticipate the reward. In this case the calamity will be atonement for their sins. But if their patience is coupled with anticipating the reward, the calamity will become atonement for their sins and they will receive the reward. 

Shaykh Uthaymeen said (The Prophet peace be upon him said):

مَنْ صَامَ رَمَضَانَ إِيمَانًا وَاحْتِسَابًا غُفِرَ لَهُ مَا تَقَدَّمَ مِنْ ذَنْبِهِ

Whoever fast the month of Ramadan having faith and anticipating the reward, he will be forgiven for his previous sins. (Sahih al-Bukhari 2014)

The meaning of ‘having faith’ is to believe that Allah has obligated it and to believe in the reward that comes with fasting. The meaning of ‘anticipating the reward’ is that the person anticipates receiving his reward from Allah for fasting this month.

All of us pray and fast Ramadan, but does it cross our hearts that we intend to receive the reward from Allah by doing so, and this reward will be stored for us with Allah? Most of the people are heedless of this. Most of the people only want to perform the obligation while the reward does not cross their mind. The affair of the worshipper anticipating the reward is

very important. For this reason the Prophet صلى الله عليه وسلم restricted this

great reward for the person who fast Ramadan if he fast while having faith and anticipating the reward; and this is not for the one who fast out of habit.

Translated by Rasheed ibn Estes Barbee

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(1) Tafsir Soorah 'Āli `Imrān Tape 37a 30 minute mark

Source: MTWS

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[Quote] Be Patient with Your Spouse and Seek the Reward from Allāh

It was said to Abū Uthmān An-Naysabūrī : What from your actions is most valuable to you?

He said: I was in my youth and my family was striving hard to convince me to marry 

but I refused. A woman came to me and said: 'O Abū Uthmān, indeed I am

infatuated with you. I ask you, by Allāh, to marry me.' So I went to her father, 

who was poor, and he married her to me and he was very happy with that. When she 

entered upon me I saw her and she was cross-eyed, cripple, and deformed.

Due to her love for me she would prevent me from going out so I would sit with her 

to soothe her heart and I didn't display to her any aversion, yet it was as if I was 

burning due to the aversion which I had for her. I remained like this for fifteen 

years until she passed away.

There is none of my actions that I hope to preserve more than my (action of) 

preservation of her heart.

Sayd  Al-Khātir pg. 132 

Translated by Raha ibn Donald Batts

Masjid Tawheed was-Sunnah in Durham, NC

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[Quote] Reasons for an Increase & Decrease of Prices

Following The Sunnah 'Collection of Beneficial Statements #6'

Shaykh ul Islaam Ibn Taymeeyah

Translated by Abbas Abu Yahya

'Products become expensive due to an increase in prices and are cheap due to a decrease of price. These two aspects are from the general  occurrences which have no creator except Allaah Alone.

None of those things can occur except by Allaah's permission and His capability. However, Allaah -Subhanahu- may place some of the actions of the slaves of Allaah as reasons and means for some occurrences. Just as like a murderer killing someone is the reasons for a death to occur.

Allaah causing an increase in prices could be due to the slaves of Allaah oppressing one another and the decrease in prices could be due to some people being good to others'. [Majmoo al-Fatawa 8/519]

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