From Sheikh Zaid Shakir’s New Islamic Directions
The sayings gathered here, entitled Wisdom, are extracted from, Alerting The Self Deceived, a book written by the great Islamic scholar and mystic, Abdul Wahhab ash-Sha’rani, d. 973 AH/ 1565 AD. In this book Ash-Sha’rani gathers the aphorisms of the early pious scholars of the Islamic tradition as part [...]
From Zaytuna Institute & Academy
By Sheikh Hamza Yusuf
An Interview with Shaykh Hamza Yusuf by Nazim Baksh
Q: The convenient response to those who revile your religion is to return the favor. The more virtuous position however is to forgive. Forgiveness as you know, while less in virtue when compared [...]
From Seeker’s Digest
Sufism is a knowledge through which one knows the states of the human soul, praiseworthy or blameworthy, how to
purify it from the blameworthy and ennoble it by acquiring the praiseworthy, and to journey and proceed to Allah Most High, fleeing unto Him. Its fruits are the heart’s development, knowledge of God through [...]
From Al Miftah
Western “Apologetic Islam”
On the 17th of August a question was asked
“How should we treat non Muslims who are hostile or just ignorant and don’t treat us as they should, should we be confrontational and demand our rights etc”
The Shaykh responded, “No, demand Allah’s rights only.”, stating that we should not be demanding our [...]
From AhlusSunna
One reaches Allah Most High by ten:
1. Repenting from all things unlawful or offensive;
2. Seeking Sacred Knowledge in the amount needed;
3. Continuously keeping on ritual purity;
4. Performing the prescribed prayers [fard] at the first of their times in a group prayer (and praying the confirmed sunnas [sunna mu’akkada] associated with them);
5. Always performing eight [...]
From AhlusSunna
By Imam an-Nawawi
The principles of tasawwuf’s signs on a person are also five:
1. Seeking Sacred Knowledge in order to perform Allah’s command;
2. Keeping the company of shaykhs and fellow disciples (murids) in order to see with insight;
3. Foregoing both dispensations from religious obligations and figurative interpretations of scripture, for the sake of cautiousness;
4. [...]
From AhlusSunna
By Imam an-Nawawi
The foundations of all of these consist of five:
1. High aspiration,
2. Keeping Allah’s reverence,
3. Giving the best of service,
4. Keeping one’s spiritual resolves, and
5. Esteeming Allah’s blessings.
From AhlusSunna
By Imam an-Nawawi
The basic rules of the way of Tasawwuf are five:
1. Having godfearingness privately and publicly,
2. Living according to the sunna in word and deed,
3. Indifference to whether others accept or reject one,
4. Satisfaction with Allah Most High in scarcity and plenty, and
5. Turning to Allah in happiness or affliction.
Say to my brethren when they see me dead and weep for me, lamenting me in sadness: “Think ye I am this corpse ye are to bury? I swear by God, this dead one is not I. When I had formal shape, this this, my body, served as my garment, I wore it for a [...]
If the forms of phenomenal beings are embedded in the mirror of the heart, how can it be illuminated? If it is fettered by its appetites, how can it travel to Allah? If it is not purified of the great impurity of its heedlessness, how can it aspire to enter the presence of Allah? If [...]
Liberating the heart can be attained through four virtues: humility before Allah alone, needing Allah alone, fearing and respecting Allah alone, and [...]
Imam Ghazali (rh) says:
It is incumbent on every person who believes in Allah and the Last Day that he should not be oblivious of auditing himself. Every breath of life is a precious jewel which can buy eternal treasures. Wasting these breaths or using them for detrimental purposes is such a great loss which no [...]
So long as you are close to that which is not Allah, you will always be troubled and sorrowful, ascribing partners to Him, and unable to escape the burden of your sins.
‘Abd al-Qadir al-Jilani?
True humility is born of witnessing His greatness and the manifestation of His Names.
Ibn `Ata’ Allah al-Iskandari
Those who belittle and mock [...]
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