Visit our YouTube channel for more Shaykh Saalih al-Fowzaan advises: Children are a fitnah, [as Allaah (’Azza wa Jall) says]: {Your wealth and your children are but a fitnah…} – soorah at-Taghaabun, Aayah 15 There is no doubt that you love your children; this is something which Allaah has instilled [in your hearts]. However, do […]
[During hardship], whoever [patiently] waits for ease will be rewarded…
During hardship, the believer is commanded with patience and acceptance, and when [having committed] sins, to seek forgiveness and repentance.
And the severity [of the trial] will come to an end, so do not prolong the calamity [by being impatient].
Man has not been blessed with anything better than patience…
Patience whilst upon obedience [to Allaah] is [the attainment of] a higher rank than patience whilst enduring trials and tribulations!
Before [the advent of] electricity, he would go out every moonlit night to read. And in winter, he would go out and sit between two steel barrels for protection against the cold!
He was extremely fond of knowledge, and would read extensively, such that when he was in his youth, he would read 800 pages a day, and read 2,000 volumes in the moonlight.
Most of what Shaykh Ja’far al-‘Atamee read [in the seeking] of knowledge was by way of the moonlight, because oil was scarce at the time.
As a father, it is not your job to remove the thorns from the path of your child – out of fear they may scratch.
