[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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[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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[Fatawa] Should I post about my newborn baby on Facebook? / Shaykh ‘Abdul-Muhsin Al-‘Abbād Al-Badr

Shaykh ‘Abdul-Muhsin Al-‘Abbād Al-Badr

Question: O Noble Shaykh, may Allah treat you well; I was blessed with a child. Is it permissible for me to spread the news of that via the internet or Facebook so that Dua can be made for him?

Answer: Not at all! Do not do this. You make Dua for him; his family is to make Dua for him. Do not busy yourself with these affairs. Everyone who has a child is going to post about it on the internet?!

Source: Sharh Sahīh Muslim: Bāb Fadl Binā’ Al-Masājid wal-Hath 'Alayhā 17/6/1435

Translated by Raha Batts

Masjid Tawheed was-Sunnah in Durham, NC

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[Article] Basic principles of the Salafi Dawah / Shaykh ‘Abdus-Salām Ibn Barjis Āl 'Abdel-Karīm

The first principle: Placing great importance and concern on seeking Islamic knowledge and gaining understanding of the religion.

The second principle: Exercising great effort in implementing Islam practically.

The third principle: Inviting to Allāh, Exalted is He, with knowledge.

The fourth principle: Placing great importance on the creed of the Salaf (pious predecessors) as far as studying, implementation and teaching is concerned.

The fifth principle: Placing great importance on the Prophetic Sunnah, making efforts to act according to it and inviting to that.

The sixth principle: Having a strong connection to the scholars of the Sunnah.

The seventh principle: Staying away from the secret Islamic factions and groups.

The eighth principle: That we stick to what the Book (of Allāh) and the Sunnah allude to, and what the Salaf (pious predecessors) of this Ummah have agreed upon, regarding how to deal with our leaders and rulers.

The ninth principle: To abandon the people of innovations and warn against them. The tenth principle: That we stick to the Book (of Allāh) and the Sunnah (of Prophet Muhammad صَلَّى اللّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّم) in all our affairs and circumstances.

Shaykh ‘Abdus-Salām Ibn Barjis Āl 'Abdel-Karīm, may Allah have mercy upon him

Translated by 'Abdurrahīm Ibn Muhammad Al-Hadhramī.

Published on Salafi-Dawah.com. Source: From the treatise Usūl Ad-Da'wah As-Salafiyyah p. 8-9.

 أصول الدعوة السلفية

الأصل الأول: الإهتمام والعناية بطلب العلم الشرعي

الأصل الثاني: الحرص على التطبيق العملي للإسلام

الأصل الثالث: الدعوة إلى الله تعالى على بصيرة

الأصل الرابع: الإهتمام بعقيدة السلف علما وعملا وتعليما

الأصل الخامس: الإهتمام بالسنة النبوية، والحرص على العمل بها، والدعوة إلى ذلك

الأصل السادس: الإرتباط الوثيق بعلماء السنة

الأصل السابع: الإبتعاد عن الحزبيات والجماعات الإسلامية السرية

الأصل الثامن: إلتزامنا بما دل عليه الكتاب والسنة، وأجمع عليه سلف الأمة في معاملة أئمتنا وحكامنا

الأصل التاسع: منابذة أهل البدع والتحذير منهم

الأصل العاشر: التزامنا بالكتاب والسنة في كل شؤوننا وأحوالنا

الشيخ عبد السلام بن برجس العبد الكريم رحمه الله