Thankfulness is of two kinds:Acknowledgement of the Divine origin of all bounties and engaging in thankfulness with one’s words. Expressing thankfulness with one’s actions by offering those bounties to those who are deprived of them.
“The deeds most loved by Allah are those done regularly, even if they are small.” (Muslim, Musafirin, 218.)
Rely not on your deeds, for all our worship, actions and service are in need of acceptance, just like our supplication.
Putting such blessed days and nights as those of the month Ramadan to good use, while being careless at other times, is a great loss.
The proof of the acceptance of our worship in Ramadan is our subsequent state and steadfastness.
Abu Bakr, may Allah be well pleased with him, says: “There is no harm in patience and fortitude, and no profit in lamentation and trepidation.”
Abu Bakr, may Allah be well pleased with him, states: “Things would go amiss if belief was only in mosques, wealth only with the miserly, weapons with the coward and authority with the weak.”
The oppressed and downtrodden have been entrusted to us. Orphans, widows, the impoverished have been entrusted to us. Religion and the nation have been entrusted to us. In short, we are all trusts to each other.
‘Ali, may Allah be well pleased with him, states: “Today is the day of deeds and not reckoning, while tomorrow, in the Hereafter, will be reckoning and no deeds.”
‘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 late hours of the night are like spring rains falling upon a fertile soil. One needs to be awake in order to benefit from them.
“Whoever shames their brother for a sin will not die until they themselves commit the selfsame sin.” (Tirmidhi, Qiyama, 53/2505)
Mawlana Jalal al-Din al-Rumi says: “Generosity and kindness are in just as much need of the needy as the needy are in need of generosity and kindness.”
Raising our children in the climate of the Qur’an and the Sunna is the greatest demonstration of our love and compassion for them.
Yahya ibn Mu’adh, may his secret be sanctified, states: “One need wonder at a person who goes on a diet in fear of illness, but who does not abstain from sin in fear of Hellfire.”
