Month: April 2020

Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (Q.S) on Honouring Ahle Bait e Rasool

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•••Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi (Q.S) on Honouring Ahle Bait e Rasool •••
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“A Trustworthy person in Mecca informed me: ‘I disliked how some of the Sayyids (Shurafā) dealt with people in Mecca.
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I then saw Your Highness Lady Fatimah (سلام الله علیها) in a dream, turning [her face] away from me. I greeted her but she did not respond. .

So, I asked her why she had turned away from me. She replied, ‘You criticise Sayyids.’ I said, ‘ Your Highness! Do you see how they behave with people?’
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‘Are they not from my children?’ she asked.
I then said to her, ‘I repent to Allah.’ She then faced me and I woke up.'” .
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Be very careful about disrespecting the family of Allah’s Messenger ﷺ, using good words and the best manner when speaking about them because they are the means to the Prophet’s ﷺ secrets just as the companions are the means to understanding his commands. May Allah be pleased with them all.

Muhyiddin Ibn Arabi also said: “If you attribute something bad to them then by Allah that is only due to a deficiency in your faith and Allah’s plan which will engulf you from where you cannot perceive. If Allah revealed to you their ranks in the hereafter, you would most certainly desire to be a servant of their servants.” Shaykh Majid al-Shayhawi al-Hussaini .
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الصلوۃ والسلام علیک یا سیدی یارسول اللہ صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم

اللهم صل على سيدة محمد

وآل سیدنا امام علٰی۴

و سيدة النساء الفاطمه ۴

و سيدة الزینب ۴

و سیدنا امام الحسن ۴

و سیدنا امام الحسین ۴

و سیدنا امام زین العابدین ۴

و سیدنا امام محمد الباقر ۴

و سیدنا امام جعفر الصادق۴

و سیدنا امام موسی کاظم ۴

و سیدنا امام على الرضا ۴

و سیدنا امام محمد التقی ۴

وسيدنا امام علی النقی ۴

و سیدنا امام حسن العسکری۴

و سیدنا امام محمد المهدی ۴

وعلى آله وأصحابه وبارک وسلم

صلى الله وسلم على سيدنا محمد وأهل بيته وذريته وأصحابه.

Imam Hasan and Hussain Alahissalam

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Whoever Loves Hasan and Husayn has indeed Loved me, and Whoever hates them has indeed hated me.

 

Ibn Majah in Sunan, V.1 p.51#143.

 

O Allah! I Love them [Hasan… and Husayn], you also Love them and love those who Love Them.

 

Tirmidhi, V.5 p,657 #3772.

 

The Messenger of Allah (salla Llahu ‘alayhi wa sallam) said,

 

Husayn is from me and I am from Husayn; Allah loves those who love Husayn.

 

– Recorded by Imam Bukhari (al-Adab al-Mufrad), al-Tirmidhi (Sunan) and Imam Ahmad (Musnad).

 

This hadith is displayed next to the entrance of Masjid Sayyidina Husayn (radi Allahu anhu) in Cairo, Egypt

Imam Ahmed’s 10 golden advices to his son on his wedding day

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Imam Ahmed ibn Hanbal’s advice to his son on his Nikkah day:

Dear son, you will not attain good fortune in your home except by 10 characteristics which you show to your wife, so remember them and be enthusiastic in acting upon them.

As for the first two; women like attention and they like to be told clearly that they are loved. So don’t be stingy in expressing your love for your wife. If you become limited in expressing your love, you will create a barrier of harshness between you and her, and there will be a decrease in affection.

3. Ladies hate a strict, overcautious man, yet they seek to use the soft vulnerable one. So use each quality appropriately. This will be more appealing for love and it will bring you peace of mind.

4. Ladies like from their husbands what their husbands like from them, i.e. kind words, good looks, clean clothes and a pleasant odour. Therefore, always remain in that state.

5, Indeed, the house is under the sovereignty of the woman. While she remains therein, she feels that she is sitting upon her throne, and that she is the chief of the house. Stay clear of destroying this kingdom of hers and do not ever attempt to dethrone her, otherwise you will be trying to snatch her sovereignty. A king gets most angry at he who tries to strip him of his authority, even if he portrays to show something else.

6. A woman wants to love her husband, but at the same time she does not want to lose her family. So do not put yourself and her family in the same scale, because then her choice will be down to either you or her family. And even if she does choose you over her family, she will remain in anxiety, which will then turn into hatred towards you in your daily life.
Sakina~ ﺳﻜﻴﻨﺔ:

7. Surely woman has been created from a curved rib, and this is the secret of her beauty, and the secret of the attraction towards her. And this is no defect in her, because ‘the eyebrows look beautiful due to them being curved’. So if she errs, do not rebuke her in a manner in which there is no gentleness, attempting to straighten her; otherwise you will simply break her and her breaking, is her divorce. At the same time do not let her off upon that mistake, otherwise her crookedness will increase and she will become arrogant with her ego. Thereafter, she will never soften for you and she won’t listen to you, so stay in between the two.

8. It is in the women’s nature to be ungrateful towards their husbands and to deny favours. If you were to be nice to her for her whole life but you grieved her once, she will say, “I have never seen any good from you”. So don’t let this attitude of her make you dislike her or to run away from her. If you dislike this feature of hers, you will be pleased with some other good habits within her, so create a balance.

9. Surely there are times when a woman goes through some conditions of bodily weakness and fatigue of the mind. Such that Allah has relieved her of some of her compulsory worships during that period; Allah has totally pardoned her from praying, and has postponed the days of fasting for her within this break to a later date until she regains her health and becomes normal in her temperament once more. Thus, during these days, treat her in a goodly manner. Just as Allah has relieved her of the duties, you should also lessen your demands and instructions from her during those days.

10. Last but not least, know that a woman is like a captive with you. Therefore, have mercy upon her…

May Allah Azzawajal give us the ability to act through this advice. Aamin.

 

SERMON 61 and 62

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ومن كلام له (عليه السلام)
لمّا خُوِّف من الغيلة

وَإِنَّ عَلَيَّ مِنَ اللهِ جُنَّةً  حَصِينةً، فَإِذَا جَاءَ يَوْمِي انْفَرَجَتْ عَنِّي وَأَسْلَمَتْنِي; فَحِينَئِذ لاَ يَطِيشُ السَّهْمُ ، وَلاَ يَبْرَأُ الْكَلْمُ .

SERMON 61
When Amir al-mu’minin was warned of being killed by deceit, he said:

Surely, there is a strong shield of Allah over me. When my day would come it would get away from me and hand me over to death. At that time neither an arrow would go amiss nor a wound would heal up.

ومن خطبة له (عليه السلام)
[يحذر من فتنة الدنيا]

أَلاَ وإنَّ الدُّنْيَا دَارٌ لاَ يُسْلَمُ مِنْهَا إِلاَّ فِيهَا، وَلاَ يُنْجَى بِشَيْء كَانَ لَهَا، ابْتُلِيَ النَّاسُ بِهَا فِتْنَةً، فَمَا أَخَذُوهُ مِنْهَا لَهَا أُخْرِجُوا مِنْهُ وَحُوسِبُوا عَلَيْهِ، وَمَا أَخَذُوهُ مِنْهَا لِغَيْرِهَا قَدِمُوا عَلَيْهِ وَأَقَامُوا فِيهِ; فَإِنَّهَا عِنْدَ ذَوِي الْعُقُولِ كَفَيْءِ الظِّلِّ، بِيْنَا تَرَاهُ سَابِغاً  حَتَّى قَلَصَ ، وَزَائِداً حَتَّى نَقَصَ.

 
SERMON 62
About the transience of the world
Beware ! surely this world is a place from which protection cannot be sought except while one is in it. The action which is performed only for this world cannot secure salvation.

People are tested in it through calamities. Those who have taken worldly pleasures here will be taken out from them (by death) and will be questioned about them. And whatever (good actions) they have achieved for the other world, they will get them there and stay in them. 

For the intelligent this world is like the shade – one moment it is spread out and extended but soon it shrinks and contracts.