Understanding the general islamic principle is never complete without out knowing what the hala and haram is. The Haram or prohibition of things is due to their impurity and harmfulness: It is the right of Allah, the One Who created the universe and bestowed innumerable favours upon mankind, to legalise […]
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The Qur’aan is the complete book of guidance for mankind. It is a noble reve;ation from Allaah as well as the main source of Law in Islaam and it contains general Islamic principle as well as all aspects of ones life. The whole of the Qur’an is from Allaah. Each […]
This is a question which every Muslim should be able to answer. The Bedrock of Islaam which the general Islamic principle is based upon is known as Tawheed. Tawheed is a concept that was preached by every Prophet of Allaah and, thus, constitutes the essence of the teachings of Islaam. […]
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Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid The following is a lengthy hadeeth about the story of how the great Sahaabi Salmaan al-Faarisi (may Allaah be pleased with him) came to Islam. He was a Magian (Zoroastrian), then he became a Christian, then he became a Muslim. That was after he had met […]
By Muhammad Alshareef In one of the battles that the Muslims waged against the Romans, the Muslims, under the commandment of Maslamah Rahimahullah, surrounded a city that had a tall and well-fortified wall. The siege went on for months. Then one night, one of the Muslim soldiers came to General […]
By Ibn Rajab al-Hanbali The first type of craving for wealth is that a person has extreme love for wealth and also relentlessly exerts efforts to attain it – via means which are lawful – being excessive in that, striving hard and making painstaking efforts and toiling in order to […]
Imam Ibn Al-Qayyim Allah never orders anything except that Satan takes two contradictory stances towards it: either shortcoming and negligence or over-zealousness and exaggeration. It does not matter [to him] by which of these two mistakes he becomes victorious over the slave. He comes to the heart of the slave […]
Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal – rahimahullah – said: You should know – may Allah have mercy upon you – that when the slave [of Allah] leaves his house to go to the mosque, that he is going to face Allah, the Irresistible, the One, the Omnipotent, the Exalted in Might, […]
By Ibn Qayyim al-jawziyyah The people will enter hell-fire through three doors: 1. The door of doubt, from having doubts in the Deen (religion) of Allah. 2. The door of desires, from putting desires ahead of the obedience and pleasure of Allah. 3. The door of anger, from hatred and […]
From Ibnul Qayyim’s The Path to Guidance, Chapter Nine, pp 89-92 ,Translated by: Aboo ‘Iyaad Amjad Rafiq (1) That Allaah, the Exalted, wipes away sins by the five prayers. (2) That the five prayers are an expiation for what occurs between them, if major sins are avoided. (3) That sins […]
Source: Taken from ‘The Abridgment of the Levels Of The People in the Hereafter By Ibnul Qayyim Rahimullah So these are the levels of the people, and their ranks in the Abode of the Hereafter, as mentioned by Ibnul Qayyim rahimullah, and they are eighteen in number. The highest level […]