Take care of your children. Your profitable 'trade' [with Allaah] is undoubtedly your children.
Category: Wealth & Poverty
How and when do children become a fitnah?
Children are a fitnah, [as Allaah عز و جل says]
Keep a protective eye over your children
Then, as for you O Father! Observe your children['s activities] – [even] outside the home. Where did they go? Who do they mix with?
Do not be negligent in watching over your children
[And] many of them are very negligent [of their responsibility] towards their children.
Eemaan is bare
Eemaan is bare, and its clothing is piety, its adornment is modesty, and its wealth is understanding (fiqh of the religion).
Patiently endured poverty
I never saw Ahmad ibn Hanbal ever mention worldly matters, and he patiently endured poverty for seventy years.
For those who desire a righteous heart
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.
Delayed making up fasts from last Ramadhaan
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.
Beware of speaking ill of a believer!
...and whoever says about a believer something that is not true, he will be made by Allaah to dwell in the putrid fluid flowing from the inhabitants of Hell until he retracts what he said.
Devote yourself for the Hereafter
We ask Allaah to awaken our hearts! By Allaah, the human being [my] brothers, how long will he be distracted by [pleasures of] the world?