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Do not be negligent in watching over your children

Aqeedah & Beliefs, Family & Marriage, Fiqh & Islamic Jurisprudence, Hadith & Its Sciences, Health & The Body, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Manners, Manners & Etiquette, Manners & Etiquette, Parenthood & Raising Children, Parents & Honouring Them, Prayer, Prayer & Worship, Prophets & Their Stories, Religion, Salaf & Early Generations, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Saalih al-’Uthaymeen, The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Wealth & Poverty, Words of Wisdom 1 September 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

[And] many of them are very negligent [of their responsibility] towards their children.

Valuable advice for parents on the advent of the new academic year

Aqeedah & Beliefs, Knowledge, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Parenthood & Raising Children, Parents & Honouring Them, Religion, Salaf & Early Generations, Words of Wisdom, Worldly Life & Its Deception 29 August 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

The academic year has just begun, and parents are eager to send their children to school, to the extent that the father takes his child to school by car, or hires a driver to drop him off at school...

Do we love the Prophet ﷺ more than they did?

Aqeedah & Beliefs, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgement, Innovation & Bid'ah, Innovations, Knowledge, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Prophets & Their Stories, Religion, Salaf & Early Generations, The Prophet Muhammad ﷺ, Words of Wisdom 23 August 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

I say that celebrating the birthday of the Prophet ﷺ was not [something] known [to have been practiced] by the righteous predecessors.

Prayer in the depth of the night

Prayer, Prayer & Worship, Salaf & Early Generations, Sins & Avoiding Them, Sleep & Waking, Words of Wisdom 2 July 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

Pray, even if only two rak'ahs, in the depth of the night; for indeed, prayer in the depth of the night sheds away sins and is among the most noble deeds of the righteous.

Important advice for after Ramadhaan

Fasting & Ramadan, Food & Eating, Good Deeds & Their Rewards, Manners, Manners & Etiquette, Manners & Etiquette, Prayer & Worship, Prophets & Their Stories, Ramadhaan, Salaf & Early Generations, Shaykh Saalih ibn Fowzaan, Sincerity, Sincerity & Intention, Sins, Sins & Avoiding Them, Tawbah & Repentance, The Heart & Its Diseases, Time Management & Priorities, Words of Wisdom, Zakat & Charity 23 March 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

So the Muslim must always be a servant of Allaah and not a servant of Allaah [just] some of the time.

For those who desire a righteous heart

Aqeedah & Beliefs, Arrogance & Pride, Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, Day of Judgement, Day of Judgement, Death & The Grave, Family & Marriage, Fasting & Ramadan, Fiqh & Islamic Jurisprudence, Food & Eating, Generosity & Miserliness, Good Deeds & Their Rewards, Health & The Body, Knowledge, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Manners, Manners & Etiquette, Manners & Etiquette, Moderation & Balance, Parenthood & Raising Children, Prayer & Worship, Prophets & Their Stories, Rectifying Oneself, Religion, Salaf & Early Generations, Scholars & Their Status, Shaykh Ibraaheem al-Farraaj, Sincerity, Sincerity & Intention, Sins, Sins & Avoiding Them, Sleep & Waking, The Heart & Its Diseases, The Soul & Nafs, Time Management & Priorities, Wasting & Squandering, Wealth & Poverty, Words of Wisdom, Worldly Life & Its Deception 6 March 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

May Allaah grant you goodness. It has been narrated that al-Ashtar once entered upon 'Ali ibn Abi Taalib رضي الله عنه – after part of the night had passed – while he was standing in prayer.

The Salaf and the month of Ramadhaan

Aqeedah & Beliefs, Fasting, Fasting & Ramadan, Good Deeds & Their Rewards, Hadith & Its Sciences, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Prayer, Prayer & Worship, Prophets & Their Stories, Qur.aan, Religion, Salaf & Early Generations, Shaykh Saalih ibn Fowzaan, Sleep & Waking, The Heart & Its Diseases, Time Management & Priorities, Words of Wisdom 14 February 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

The condition of the Salaf - as was mentioned about them [in the books] with reliable chains of narrators - is that they used to ask Allaah عز و جل to allow them to reach Ramadhaan before it began.

Advice regarding Ramadhaan

Aqeedah & Beliefs, Hadith & Its Sciences, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Manners & Etiquette, Manners & Etiquette, Prayer, Prayer & Worship, Prophets & Their Stories, Qur.aan, Ramadhaan, Salaf & Early Generations, Shaykh Rabee' ibn Haadee al-Madkhalee, Sleep & Waking, Words of Wisdom, Worship in Congregation 12 February 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

I urge you, O brothers, to give great importance during Ramadhaan to the night prayer – may Allaah bless you – [both] in congregation and individually.

Delayed making up fasts from last Ramadhaan

Companions of the Prophet ﷺ, Fasting, Knowledge & Seeking Knowledge, Prophets & Their Stories, Salaf & Early Generations, Scholars & Their Status, Shaykh Sulaymaan ar-Ruhaylee, Wealth & Poverty, Words of Wisdom 8 February 2026 Abu 'Abdullaah

And on this [topic there is] an issue, and it is whoever has [any fasts] to make-up from Ramadhaan and he delayed making [them] up until the arrival of the following Ramadhaan.