food for thought

[eesa the kiwi]

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"The world is bad is not because there alot of bad people but because so little of us trying to change the bad to good."

[Miss Foxxy]

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Keep them coming! :up:

:jkk:

[Miss Foxxy]

[eesa the kiwi]

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Abu Darda (Radi Allahu 'anhu) said: "I love three things that are hateful to people:
'I love poverty, sickness, and death. I love them because:
✔-poverty is humility,
✔-sickness is expiation for sins &
✔-death results in a meeting with Allah.'

••►"But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not." [2:216]

[eesa the kiwi]

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it seems A man not progressing is not standing still. He is stagnating.

[Rifqah]

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Abu Darda (Radi Allahu 'anhu) said: "I love three things that are hateful to people:
'I love poverty, sickness, and death. I love them because:
✔-poverty is humility,
✔-sickness is expiation for sins &
✔-death results in a meeting with Allah.'

••►"But perhaps you hate a thing and it is good for you; and perhaps you love a thing and it is bad for you. And Allah Knows, while you know not." [2:216]

It's true, as people we can become arrogant and live as though we are immortal and these first two things keep our frailty ever before us. That can only be a good thing as it forces us to confront our mortality and that, in turn, begs the question...what we do with the time we have alive, given that none of us know the duration. Atheists and humanists will more likely jump one way into hedonism and the 'god fearing' will search for safety in the shadow of the most high.

Very powerful eesa.

[eesa the kiwi]

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"Love of Allah is a sweetness or pleasure that if you are without it, life becomes a thing of worries and of pain." - Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya rahimahullah

[eesa the kiwi]

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“how can you disbelieve in Allaah? seeing that you were dead and He gave you life. then He will give you death, then again will bring you to life (on the day of resurrection) and then unto Him you will return.” ~ surah al-baqarah 2:28

[eesa the kiwi]

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"If Allah wants ill for a people, he gives them debates and takes away from them actions." — Umar ibn al-Khattab

[eesa the kiwi]

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‘Divine help comes with patience, relief follows difficulty and ease follows hardship. Patience aids and supports a person more than an army of people and in the attainment of victory, it is like the head of the body.’

[Ibn Al-Qayyim]

[eesa the kiwi]

[eesa the kiwi]

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'Don't wonder why Allah swt doesn't grant us all our wishes immediately,
but rather give thanks that He doesn't punish us immediately for all our mistakes.'

[eesa the kiwi]

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“Do not look at a man’s prayers nor his fasts, rather, measure him by how well he deals with others, the compassion he shows his fellow man, his wisdom and his integrity.” — Umar ibn al Khattab (radhi’alla anhu)

[eesa the kiwi]

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The ibtilaa’ (testing) of the believer is like medicine for him. It cures him from illness. Had the illness remained it would destroy him or diminish his reward and level (in the hereafter). The tests and the trials extract these illnesses from him and prepare him for the perfect reward and the highest of degrees (in the life to come).”
-Ibnul Qayyim

[eesa the kiwi]

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Al Fudail Ibn 'Iyaad said;

Do not feel lonely on the paths of guidance just because few people travel them, and do not be deceived by the abundance of destroyed travelers [on the paths of misguidance].

[The Book of Manners by Fu'ad Ibn 'Abdul-'Azeez Ash-Shulhoob, Page 31]