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Ḥifḏh Tips

The Best Thing I’ve Read Today

November 5, 2019

“I did not find sweetness in my Ḥifḏh until I perfected it. I did not perfect it until I reached an unparalleled level of exhaustion, which I forgot the moment I tasted the sweetness of reciting the Qurʾān whenever I pleased—standing, sitting, lying down [and in between].”…

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Translations

The Greatest Secret to this Life

February 22, 2017

❝Know that Allah does not do to His slaves except what is good for them; be it something they love or something they loath (a hardship). And Allāh does not remove a decree of hardship from a person until he is pleased with it. When the person becomes pleased with it, Allāh removes it, and it is perhaps for this reason that a period of hardship might extend [because a person is not pleased with Allāh’s Decree]. Thus, whoever wants…

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Soul Cleansing

A Pure Heart

February 16, 2017

A man reviled Ibn ʿAbbās, so he replied, “You revile me even though I have three traits: When I learn something about an āyah from the Book of Allāh, I wish that everyone would know it too; when I hear about a ruler from the rulers of Muslims who governs justly I become happy, even though I may never have to go to him for a ruling; and when I hear about a rainfall in a land from the lands…

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June 25, 2016

Rasūl Allāh ﷺ said: ❝Allāh does not throw His beloved (the one whom He loves) into Hellfire.❞ [Graded Ṣaḥīḥ by al-Albānī] …

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Personal Reflections

June 14, 2016

Keep making duʿāʾ with the same passion you had at the start. Don’t let a delayed answer bring you down. Allāh will not turn you away empty handed.…

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April 11, 2015

❝When you stand before the All-Knowing King at night [in prayer], then adopt the manners of a child; when the child does not get what he wants, he cries until he gets it.❞  Ibn al-Jawzī.…

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