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25 February 2018

Regard honouring others as a favour and honour the needy in a sense of gratitude. Do not forget that “surely Allah is He [Who] accepts what is offered as charity”. (See 9:104)

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24 February 2018

As for friendship with Allah, it is contingent upon defeating the ambitions of the carnal self. Those who befriend their carnal desires are deprived of the friendship of Allah.

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22 February 2018

Even if a person possessed the whole world and reached the pinnacle of material wellbeing, nothing can fill the void which deprivation of belief leaves in their soul.

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21 February 2018

No matter how many righteous deeds we may have, we must seek refuge in the mercy of Allah. For our good deeds are in as much need of acceptance as our prayers are.

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20 February 2018

The wise person is one who sacrifices the fleeting to earn the eternal. One who is deceived by the world and sells their Hereafter is heedless. And one who sells their Hereafter for the world of another, is a fool.

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19 February 2018

The duty of the human being is to constantly remember mortality and the Hereafter. Otherwise, their inner world will turn into a cesspool of carnal ambition.

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18 February 2018

There is no harm in worldly affairs when the heart is with Allah. But with a heart which the hustle and bustle of the world has left heedless, even worship has its shortcomings.

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17 February 2018

The Straight Path is a path leading to Allah Almighty. The guide along this path is the Messenger of Allah. Disloyalty to the Messenger of Allah is the greatest disloyalty.

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14 February 2018

The Prescribed Prayer keeps the servant away from vice and wickedness. It is sufficient that we look at how much we are able to avoid sin, in order to determine whether or not our prayers are acceptable.

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13 February 2018

Children who are deprived of spiritual learning and who are not trained in accordance with the Qur’an and the Prophetic example will be claimants against their parents on the Day of Reckoning.

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12 February 2018

The most precious time is the time between the past and the future – the present. This is because the pages from the past are shut, while what the future contains is unknown.

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11 February 2018

What caused Satan’s banishment from the Divine presence was not a lack of or deficiency in knowledge or deeds, but his insolence. This is why the most excellent virtue which destroys Satan is good manners.

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10 February 2018

A person cannot be both pious and coarse, ill-natured and disobliging, for the essence and spirit of Islam is Divine unity and oneness with respect to belief, and good manners and compassion with respect to action.

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9 February 2018

Good manners is like the fragrance of a rose that enlivens the spirit. This scent should pervade our spiritual being and be felt at every stage of our lives.

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8 February 2018

Piousness, renunciation and righteousness is not abandoning the world, but, as in the case of Prophet Solomon, upon him be peace, it is refusing to allow love of the world to enter into one’s heart.

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7 February 2018

Everything in this world is known through its opposite. As hate is the opposite of love, hating those things that are disliked by Allah is a requirement of loving Him.

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23 December 2017

The believer must be a key to goodness and a deadlock to evil. For working to prevent falsehood is as much a requirement of belief as is working for the exaltation of truth and goodness.

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22 December 2017

Detachment, in one’s heart, from those who do not merit the love of Allah is as much a precondition of sound belief as is loving Allah and those loved by Him.

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20 December 2017

Just as the virtue of the Prayer is its being performed at the earliest possible time, the virtue of spending in the way of Allah is in its being undertaken at the very first opportunity, without delay.

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18 December 2017

Servitude to Allah is a must until the last breath. This is why an emigration from the heedlessness of ignorance to the character of Allah’s Messenger is necessary at every moment.

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14 December 2017

It is easy to spend in the way of Allah in affluence. For this does not strain the carnal self. That which is difficult is to be generous in times of need. To be able to give from those things that we love in times of prosperity.

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13 December 2017

Belief arises from affirmation of the Divinely-revealed truths with the heart and declaration with the tongue. Belief is acceptance in advance, not with the mind but with the heart.

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12 December 2017

It is easy to bring to reason one who is aware of their own ignorance. The true feat is to bring to reason those stubborn fools and arrogant sophists who deem themselves scholars.

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11 December 2017

The Straight Path is the path leading to Allah. The guide along this path is the Messenger of Allah. Disloyalty to the Messenger of Allah is the greatest disloyalty.

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9 December 2017

The means leading to union with Allah are as numerous as the breaths of beings in the universe. The most excellent path to achieving this [union] is to free the heart, the focus of the Divine Gaze, from all its worries.

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8 December 2017

Sufism is the endeavour to remove all the barriers to servanthood and to attain perfection of belief through every possible means leading to such servitude.

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7 December 2017

Sufism is the ability to live in the best possible way, in accordance with the Qur’an and the Prophetic Practice, in utmost sincerity, piety, perfect goodness and vigilant awareness.

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19 November 2017

The pleasure the Messenger of Allah derived from spending in the way of Allah was such that it made him forget his own hunger. He would not dream of eating himself without first feeding the hungry from among his community.

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18 November 2017

Miserliness is taking refuge in one’s wealth instead of taking refuge in Allah Almighty. It amounts, at a certain point, to one’s idolising their wealth and possessions. While it is Allah Almighty Who bestows that wealth.

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15 November 2017

Acts of worship are like vitamins for the spirit. They are a means of spiritual resistance against the viruses of sin which pull a person away from their Lord.

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14 November 2017

It is essential that those who enjoin truth, goodness and righteousness must first be truthful and upright themselves. For one cannot offer anything with an empty cup.

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13 November 2017

There can be no psychiatric ailments in a society where the Prescribed Prayer is offered in humble, devoted reverence. Similarly, there can be no social eruptions in a society wherein the prescribed annual alms and charity is offered.

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12 November 2017

The Prescribed Prayer is a kind of ‘moral report card’ for the believer. One who does not avoid sin and wrongdoing despite offering the Prescribed Prayer should re-evaluate their prayers.

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11 November 2017

Death is not just an appointment made with the elderly. Every creature that is born is a candidate for death. That being so, age is of no consequence when it comes to preparation for the Hereafter.

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10 November 2017

Death comes to a person in accordance with the quality of their spiritual disposition: for the believer a blissful festival morning; for the unbeliever a harrowing journey of torment.

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7 November 2017

‘Uthman, may Allah be well pleased with him, says: “The greatest loss is a long life lived without one’s having prepared provisions for their journey to the Hereafter.”

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6 November 2017

‘Umar, may Allah be well pleased with him, says: “Reduce your worldly desires that you may live in freedom. Reduce your sins that death be easy for you.”

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28 October 2017

Our aim ought to be leading our lives in accordance with the guidance of Allah’s Messenger, may Allah bless him and grant him peace. All other roads are dead ends.

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27 October 2017

Our truest path is to follow in the footsteps of the Messenger of Allah in the faithfulness of a shadow to its object, and to strive to emulate him in every way.

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26 October 2017

The Qur’an and the Prophetic Practice are the greatest mirror of guidance into which a believer needs to constantly gaze in order to correct their mistakes and wrongdoing.

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