Welcome to Winter - during which blessings descend [from Allaah]; wherein the nights are long [and therefore conducive] to stand[ing] in prayer, and the days are short [and conducive] to fast[ing].
Tag: worship
True love and veneration of the Prophet ﷺ
He is saying, they they want to venerate the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ; so how is true veneration of the Messenger of Allaah ﷺ to be done?
Deeds of the Hereafter
Occupy yourself with the deeds of the Hereafter, and you will find the affairs of this world taken care of [and] bringing you no harm.
Abandoning the Sunan
Beware of abandoning the Sunan (pl. Sunnah), for indeed they are the testimonies of certainty [in eemaan].
Your distance from Allaah
The extent to which a servant is heedless of the remembrance [of Allaah], accordingly is their distance from Allaah.
Staying up at night
Staying up at night leads to laziness during the day, preventing the fulfilment of obligatory duties concerning acts of worship, and worldly and religious affairs.
On the advent of the new Hijree year
[O] Noble Shaykh, may Allaah grant you success.
Signs of an accepted Hajj
And the accepted Hajj has two signs: A sign that occurs during the Hajj, and a sign that occurs after the completion of the Hajj. [So] the accepted Hajj has two signs
What are the signs of an accepted Hajj?
al-Hasan al-Basree رحمه الله was asked about the accepted Hajj:
'What is its sign?' He replied
When the 10 days of Dhul-Hijjah arrived
at-Targheeb wat-Tarheeb lil-Munthiree 2/127 When the 10 days [of Dhul-Hijjah] arrived, Sa'eed ibn Jubayr would exert himself intensely [in worship] to such an extent that he was almost unable to...