I pray this Ramdhaan serves as a catalyst and not just another pit stop. I pray that the worst of your tomorrows be better than the best of your yesterdays.

ramadhaan mubaarak, taqaballaahu minna wa minkum jami’aan!

On the authority of Anas ibn Maalik (radiyallaahu ‘anhu) who said:

I heard the Messenger of Allaah (sallallaahu alayhe wasallam) saying: “Allaah, The Exalted, has said: ‘O son of Aadam, whatever you call upon Me for, and hope of Me, I shall forgive you for what you have done and I shall not mind.  O son of Aadam, were your sins to reach the clouds of the sky and then you were to ask forgiveness of Me, I would forgive you.  O son of Aadam, were you to come to Me with sins nearly as great as the earth and you were then to face Me not committing shirk (ascribing partners to Allaah) in anything, I would bring you forgiveness nearly as great as it.”[1]

وَيْلٌ لِّكُلِّ هُمَزَةٍ لُّمَزَةٍ

“Woe unto every slanderer and backbiter.”

(104):1

Bismillaah.

May Allaah bless you.

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I will be earnestly praying for you, you, you, yaa Saudiyyah, every moment, every. single. fleeting. moment. And when I meet you again, we’ll grip eachother so tightly that nothing and no one shall ever rent us apart, bi’idhnillaahi ta’aala. The very atoms of you and the very atoms of me – iron, calcium, phosphorus, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, so on, so forth…We’ll live in mosques and in scriptures, in Shaykh ‘Abbaad’s library and in the rising storm of Shaykh Rabee’s words and within the blue vaulted night that harbors Shaykh Fawzaan’s home. ♥

We’ll gaze at the multitudinous Arabian seas, visit salafee students who will tell us of the beautiful wisdoms tucked beneath the verses of our Lord and those encrypted in the narrations of our prophet (salallaahu ‘alayhe wasallam). But before I sail through the pulse of the rebounding ocean, I must ensure that the winds will blow only in the directions that the ship wishes. So, I will continue to implore the creator of all things beautiful. And I will keep in mind this: The Lord may not come when you call but He is always on time.

Ones of the sages amongst the Salafsaid:

How many occasions of sorrow will one face on the Day of Judgment that did not even across his mind?!

Allaah, Exalted is He, says:

“You were in heedlessness of this. Now we have removed your covering from you, and piercing is your sight this Day.” (50):22

• Abridged from: The Journey to Allaah, by Ibn Rajab Al-Hanbalee

My beloved!

Those who falter in the path across the desert

Are many, but those who reach the end are few.

Khulayd al-’Asari said:

“Every lover desires to meet His beloved, so love your Lord and travel to Him with a fine journey; neither arduous or lax. This journey will take the believer to His Lord and whoever does not know the path to his Lord will not traverse it and there is no difference between such a person and an animal.”

Abu Nu’aym, vol.2, p.232