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AL- Fawaid Ibn Qayyim on How We Spend Our Day

AL- Fawaid Ibn Qayyim on How We Spend Our Day

 

Ibn al-Qayyim [rahimahullah] said,

When a person spends his entire day with no other concern but Allaah alone,

Allaah [subhaa nahu wa ta’ala] will take care of all his needs and take care of all that is worrying him.

...He will empty his heart so that it will be filled only with love for Him, free his tongue so that it will speak only in remembrance of Him [dhikr], and cause all his faculties to work only in obedience to Him.

But when a person spends his entire day with no other concern but this world,

Allaah will make him bear its distress, anxiety and pain.

He will leave him to sort himself out, and cause his heart to be distracted from the love of Allaah towards the love of some created being.

He will cause his tongue to speak only in remembering people instead of remembering Allaah.

He will cause him to use his talents and energy in obeying and serving the people.

This person will strive hard, laboring like some work-animal, to serve something other than Allaah.

Everyone who turns away from being a true slave of Allaah by obeying and loving Him, will be burdened with servitude to some created being. Allaah says in the Qur’an [interpretation of the meaning]:

And whosoever turns away [blinds himself] from the remembrance of the Most Beneficent, We appoint for him a shaytaan to be his Qareen [intimate companion]. (Sura al-Zukhruf, Ayah 36).

 

It was narrated that Anas [radi Allaahu anhu] said that the Prophet [sallal laahu alaihi wa sallam] said:

Whoever is mainly concerned about the Hereafter, Allaah will make him feel independent of others and will make him focused and content, and his worldly affairs will fall into place. But whoever is mainly concerned with this world, Allaah will make him feel in constant need of others and will make him distracted and unfocused, and he will get nothing of this world except what is decreed for him. (narrated by al-Tirmidhi, Hadith No. 2389 and classed as Saheeh by Shaykh Muhammad Naasiruddin al-Albaani [rahimahullah])

 

(Source: al-Fawaa’ id, page 159)

The Best Of The Actions For The Muslim To Practice

The Best Of The Actions For The Muslim To Practice

 

 

On the authority of Abdullaah ibn Mas'ood (may Allaah be pleased with him), he said:

 

"I asked the Messenger of Allaah,:

 

-Oh Messenger of Allaah, which of the actions are the best?-

 

He (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) said:

 

"The prayer at its proper times."

 

I said:

 

-Then what Oh Messenger of Allaah?-

 

He said:

 

"That the people are safe from your tongue."

 

(At-Tabaraani, Declared to be authentic by Al-Imaam Al-Albaani in At-Targheeb wa At-Tarheeb # 2852)

 

 

Benefits from the narration:

 

1. From the methodology of the Sahaabah is to go to the people of knowledge to ask about the affairs of one's religion.

 

2. The Sahaabah weren't prohibited from asking about that which will get them closer to Allaah from the righteous actions.

 

3. The righteous are not on the same level in terms of reward with Allaah.

 

4. The respect that  the Sahaabah had for the Messenger of Allaah since they addressed with that title or the title of Prophethood.

 

5. The best of the actions after the two testimonies of faith is the performance of the prayer at the fixed stated times.

 

6. The opposite of this understood, and it is that the worst of the actions is not praying at the fixed stated times.

 

7. From the best of the actions is protecting the people from the harms of one's tongue like backbiting, slander, tale carrying, verbal abuse, etc...

 

8. From the worst of the actions is to harm people with one's tongue.

 

9. The Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) was the best of teachers since he answered Abdullaah ibn Mas'ood with this answer, whereas similar questions were asked to the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) by other Sahaabah and He answered them differently according to their situations.

 

10. The Sahaabah conveyed the Sunnah of the Prophet (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) after His death.

 

11. This narration is not a protection for the people innovation. Indeed those who bring harm to the Muslim community with the affairs of innovation are to be exposed so that the people do not fall into the evil, doubtful matters mentioned by them. Backbiting the people of innovation is permissible when warning the people against them.

Refer back to Riyaadus Saaliheen V. 2 "The Chapter of the Permissible Backbiting" by Al-Imaam An-Nawawe (may Allaah have mercy upon him).