År 2009 er kommet… hvad nu?

Engang sad man i klassen og skrev 1994 på papirene, så blev det 95, 96… 2000, det fortsatte og blev 2003, indtil igår var det 2008 og nu er det 2009. Ja kære ven, tallet bliver større og større, men husk én ting: Du har ingen garanti på om du kommer til at skrive 2010 [...]

Patience

Hazrat Umar (radi Allahu anhu) wrote to Abu Musa Ash’ari: Take to patience. Know that patience is of two kind, one is better than the other. It is good to have patience at disaster, but better than this is to protect oneself from unlawful things. Know that patience is the gist of faith. The reason [...]

Beskedenhed

Allahs Elskede Sendebud (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) sagde:
Vær ligeså beskeden over for Gud, den Almægtige, som nødvendigheden af beskedenhed ved at være foran Ham kræver. Lad ham, der er velsignet med en sådan grad af beskedenhed, altid kontrollere sit sind og dets indhold, såvel som sin mave og dens indhold. Lad ham altid huske på [...]

The condition

A man asked Hazrat Hasan Basri: O Abu Sayeed, how have you got up from the bed at dawn? He said: In good condition. He again asked: How are you? He said: In good condition. He again asked: How are you? Hasan Basri smiled and said: Are you asking about my condition? What do you [...]

He who fears God

He who fears God cannot commit sin by his anger.
He who fears God, cannot do what he likes.
If he would not have been such,
things would have turned otherwise.
[From Ihya ulum-id-Din; written by Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali]

The Assembly of Zikr

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “To be present in an assembly of Zikr is better than prayer of one thousand rak’ats, attending one thousand funerals and visiting one thousand patients.”
The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: “When you see a garden of Paradise, roam in it.” He was asked: “O Prophet of God (sallallahu [...]

How to live like a believer

Hazrat Ibn Masud said: Be fountain of learning, be light of guidance, be lamp of sight, be jewel of heart and put on old clothes, you will be known to the dwellers of heaven and live unknown to the dwellers of this world.
[From Ihya ulum-id-Din; written by Imam Abu Hamid al-Ghazzali]

The believer

The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) said: God says: The object of envy is that believer who makes light the burden on himself, gets delight in prayers, good in divine service, worship in secrecy, lives behind the eyes of men, is not shown by fingers  and keeps patience. The Prophet (sallallahu alayhi wa sallam) made [...]