#baqiyah

"If you see that people love you for no reason or benefit, and you find that they are comforted by your closeness and are always pleased by your presence, then you are blessed with all good.

Allah ta’ala said: “Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection.” [Surah Maryam, 19:96]

Hold firmly to the belief in Tawheed, and maintain separation and enmity towards every form of shirk and taghūt.

Read the Qur’an with understanding so you may know what it commands you to do and what it forbids you from.

Have friendship, compassion, and love for the Muslims, and have enmity and hatred for the kuffār, mushrikīn, and murtaddīn, and declare them disbelievers.

Perform the five daily prayers consisting of 17 obligatory rak‘āt, give zakāh once a year, fast the 30 days of Ramadan once every year, and perform Hajj once in your lifetime if you are able.

Migrate in the path of Allah, strive (do jihād) in His cause, remain firm upon the pledge of allegiance to the Imam, and stay connected to the community of the Muslims.

Do not transgress the limits set by Allah, and avoid to the best of your ability all that He has prohibited. If you fall into sin, then repent. If it happens again, repent again. Even if it happens a hundred times, then repent a hundred times.

And teach all of this to your children, your wives, and anyone under your authority.

Besides this, you will not be questioned regarding Abu Hanifah, Shāfi‘ī, Mālik, Ahmad, any such person, any scholar of hadith or fiqh, any school of thought, any group, any action, any person’s virtues or faults, any fitnah, any law, any event, any disputes between scholars, differing narrations, any victory, any defeat, any book, lecture, speech, group, or individual.

“Rejoice, that is Rasulullāh” ❤️‍🩹

Found this in some notes from a couple years back :))) The same thing for which I longed then, I still yearn for now, سبحان الله. Time flies…Alhamdulillah for a new year of steadfastness upon tawhīd!

When I think back to it, سبحان الله, many have been in situations in which they’re lost in dunyah waiting for Allah to answer their supplications, only for them to stop asking Him right at the end, at the most tiring stage and most complicated days, the days of “despair” -or more like, “days of defeat”- the days in which Shaytan tells you that your dream doesn’t seem like it will ever turn into reality anymore, so you go about your life, despairing in the mercy of Allah and changing your plans to more “realistic” ones, turning back, giving up on what you sought, and choosing mediocrity! when, perhaps, if you asked a bit more, just a tiny bit more.. Allah would answer… 

May Allah protect us from such. 

O’ patient one, while others abandon their lofty dreams and choose the easy way out, and while many choose the ease of ignorance over the pain of guidance, you remain firm to this day and unwavering, despite Allah not granting you what you wish for yet, you still ask Him daily without getting tired or bored! Do you think this will pass by unnoticed? No, by the one who knows when a tree’s leaf will fall before the seed of the tree is even planted! He will not let your pleas go in vain, wallah. 

There’s true beauty in delay, Alhamdulillah. 

And despite you not understanding the reason behind it, Allah has a wisdom for which He decrees delays and inconveniences, He doesn’t do it to harm you -for He’s more merciful to you than yourself- but to draw you nearer, to raise your ranks in Akhirah, or perhaps even to grant you khayr in your dunyah, so thank Him for that and don’t busy yourself asking why,

May Allah open His doors to us. 

“O believers! Shall I guide you to an exchange that will save you from a painful punishment?