Muhammad bin Abi ‘Ali al-Asbahaanee recited:
“Act upon your knowledge and you will profit, O man
Knowledge does not benefit so long as one does not perfect his actions
Knowledge is beauty and Taqwa (Fear) of Allah is its decoration
Those with Taqwa are always preoccupied with their knowledge
The proof of Allah, O possessor of knowledge, is immense
Neither plotting [...]
Habib al-’Abid reports: Once, when I arrived in al-Basrah, I was surprised to see that the markets were closed, and the streets empty.
I called out, “O people of Basrah, is this some kind of holiday of yours that I am unaware of?”
Someone answered, “No, but al-Hasan al-Basri is in the main gathering place (of [...]
`Umar bin al-Khattab (radiAllahu `anhu) said,
“Take account of your own selves (i.e., of your deeds), before you will be taken to account (on the Day of Resurrection).
Weigh yourselves (i.e., your deeds) before you will be weighed (i.e., before your deeds will be put on the balances on the Day of Resurrection).
Verily, if [...]
Reminder to myself first and foremost and then to my respected brothers and beloved sisters inshaAllah.
‘Abdullah bin ‘Abbas (may Allah be pleased with him) said:
“O, you perpetrator of sin! Do not feel safe from the end result of it, when what follows the sin is greater than the sin which you committed, for to feel [...]
The father of Abee Aasim said: I heard my son narrate from Abu Abdullah al-Kasa`i; I heard ibn Abee Aasim say:
When the affair of al-Alawee occurred in Basrah all of my books were lost, so I re-wrote fifty thousand ahadith from memory. I used to go to the greengrocers’ shop and write using the light [...]
The jurist of Samarkand says that the person who does one good deed should be weary of four things (imagine what a person who commits a sin should be afraid of!) :
The fear of not being accepted because Allah says:
‘Allah only accepts from those who fear.’ [Maidah: 27]
The fear of showing off, for Allah [...]
Hammam bin Shuraih asked ‘a wise man’ [*] to narrate the qualities of the people of taqwa so that he would be able to see them in front of him. The wise man said:[*] Apparently this was ‘Ali (radiallahu ‘anh) but I don’t know if it has been falsely attributed or not.
When Allah created His [...]
