MESSAGE OF DAY

Those most learned in the Sira, the Life of the Prophet are those whose lives most resemble the life of the Messenger of Allah, upon him be peace and blessings, and those who receive a share from his spirituality.

The greatest sign of a heart filled with love of Allah is treating the servants of Allah with forgiveness and compassion.

Ahmad ibn Hanbal says, “One cannot encounter reason in a head that carries conceit.”

The Messenger of Allah says: “You will die as you have lived and will be resurrected as you have died.” (Munawi, Fayd al-Qadr, V:663)

Ahmad ibn Hanbal says, “The foolish among human beings are those who take pleasure in being the subject of praise.”

Whatever the learning and education we have acquired, the true learning that we need at every moment is the education of, “ma’rifa, or knowing Allah with the heart.”

If the unlawful enters the body, the taste of and tranquillity offered by worship is the first to go.

The religiously permissible is Divine, while the unlawful is diabolical. In the lawful is the effusive grace and blessing of Allah Almighty, while the unlawful contains the unfruitfulness and inauspiciousness of Satan.

The greatest sign of a heart filled with love of Allah is treating the servants of Allah with forgiveness and compassion.

‘Umar, may Allah be well pleased with him, states: “One who abandons concern for the faults of others is bestowed with the ability to reform the faults of their own carnal self.”

The important thing is to be of a rose’s disposition: to be able to diffuse beauty to the world and heal wounded hearts, even when on top of thorns.

The degree of love becomes manifest in its product. Our love for the Messenger of Allah is to the extent of our ability to put his elevated Sunna into practice in our lives.

Muhyiddin ibn ‘Arabi (may Allah bless his soul) says “The best continuous charity is to help people to get married; because for those who help, there will be a share in the rewards of the good deeds of the progeny of the couples they helped to get married.”

A believer is the person who possesses as sensitive a conscience and as altruistic a spirit as to hold themselves responsible for all the people within their reach, and even for the state and trajectory of their age.

Even his enemies were unable to deny the truthful and trustworthy character of the Messenger of Allah. One who does not possess such characteristics cannot be spokespeople for the truth.