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Salams
No doubt you will have noticed that this blog is not updated frequently and has not been updated for a while now. I have come to the decision that its ‘Closing Time’ for this blog. All of the contributors here have their own blogs already anyway and I ask you visit these from the ‘Islamic Links’ section in the sidebar, if you wish to continue to benefit from our efforts.

The posts already here will remain, insha-Allah, but please do not post comments, as they will not be answered.

Please remember us all in your prayers.
Assalam Alaykum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakaatuh

Imam ibn al-Jawzi رحمه الله was once asked:

"The dirty robe is more in need of soap than perfume"

source:Purifying the Heart

The most distinguished qualities of a true devotee of Allah are that he keeps his secret concealed, his self safe from sins and performs his duties towards Allah with full responsibility.
Hazrat Royam bin Mohammad

Abu Hurayra reported that the Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said,
“Three supplications are answered without a doubt: the supplication of someone who is oppressed, the supplication of someone on a journey, and the supplication of parents for their children.“
Al-Adab al-Mufrad

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On the authority of Anas (may Allah be pleased with him): The Messenger of Allah (may Allah bless him and grant him peace), used to say the following when the month of Rajab began.
“Oh Allah! Bless us in Rajab and Sha`ban, and bring us, oh Allah, to Ramadan.”
[Narrated by Tabarani and Ahmad]

Please be sure to visit, link to and share this Ramadan page with everyone.
Ramadan Resources
Wasalam

“There are two ways of recognizing how to value and appreciate ‘ilm,

(1) Become a seeker of knowledge (taalibe ilm).

(2) Do not restrict this knowledge to knowing only.”
Mufti Mohammed Shafi (r.a.)

Narrated Ibn Abbas:

The Prophet said, “If anyone of you, when having sexual intercourse with his wife, says:
Bismillah, Allahumma jannibna-Sh-Shaitan wa jannib-ish-Shaitan ma razaqtana,
and if it is destined that they should have a child, then Satan will never be able to harm him.” [Bukhari]

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ . اللَّهُمَّ جَنِّبْنَا الشَّيْطَانَ ، وَ جَنِّبِ الشِّيْطَانَ مَا رَزَقْتَنَا

Bismillah. Allahumma jannibnash-shaytan. Wa jannibish-shaytana-ma razaqtana.

‘With the name of Allah! O Allah! Save us from the evil of Shaytan and save whatever children You bestow us.’
[Maariful Hadeeth]

Beneficial knowledge is [knowledge] that increases your fear of God Most High, improves your ability to discern the faults of your ego, makes you more cognizant of how to worship your Lord, reduces your desire for this world, increases your longing for the next world, and opens your spiritual insight to the disastrous defects of your actions so you can avoid them. It discloses to you the plots and delusions of the Devil and how he misleads the scholars who have gone astray until he exposes them to the hatred and anger of God Most High, for they have used religion to purchase this world, taken knowledge as a means to gain the wealth of sultans, to consume the wealth of religious endowments, the poor, and the needy, and turned their energies throughout the day to the acquisition of prestige and high standing in the hearts of people, which forces them to show off their good deeds, to argue, and to be quarrelsome and ostentatious when they speak.
Imam Ghazali, Bidayat al-Hidaya
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