As a father, it is not your job to remove the thorns from the path of your child - out of fear they may scratch. Indeed the thorns will never cease, and you will not live forever!!
Category: Patience
How and when do children become a fitnah?
Children are a fitnah, [as Allaah عز و جل says]
Forgive, and be patient
And whoever habitually seeks revenge, and is not patient, will inevitably fall into oppression [and injustice].
The virtue of patience
Whoever is accustomed to patience, will be feared by his enemy. And whoever finds patience difficult, will be coveted by his enemy - and [who] will likely achieve his aim against him.
Patiently endured poverty
I never saw Ahmad ibn Hanbal ever mention worldly matters, and he patiently endured poverty for seventy years.
The patient will be given their reward without measure
This aayah was often repeated by our esteemed Shaykh Ibn Baaz رحمه الله and I heard it from him many times.
The most important causes for the loss of blessings
Gratitude for the blessings is to know that the One who bestowed and granted them is the Lord of the Worlds, and that you use them in obedience to Allaah ﷻ, and not in forbidden matters, while...
Make the most of your youth
[It is important that you] strive to make the most of your youth – and [that] you seize [the opportunity of] this great and precious stage of your life – the stage of [your] youth.
On the death of Shaykh 'Abdul-'Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh
We extend our deepest condolences to ourselves on the loss suffered by the Ummah in the passing of its eminent scholar, Shaykh 'Abdul 'Azeez Aal ash-Shaykh رحمه الله the Mufti of this land.
Importance of al-Imaam an-Nawawee's Forty Hadeeth
And here, I recall something novel which occurred...and that was about twenty years ago; [I held lessons where] I explained the Forty [Hadeeth of al-Imaam an-Nawawee] in one of the masaajid.