“Don’t worship Allah so He may give you. Rather, worship Him so He may be pleased. For when He is pleased, He will astonish you with His Gifts.”
By the dawn
And the ten nights
And the even and the odd
O you tranquil soul!
Return to your Lord, well-pleased and pleasing
[al-Fajr: 1-3; 27-28]
Loftiness is attained in accordance to one’s struggles,
And whoever seeks nobility, remains vigilant by night.
Whoever wishes to achieve without due effort,
Will waste their life seeking what’s impossible.
You search for glory and yet you sleep at night,
It’s only the seeker of pearls who dives deep into the sea.
– Imam al-Shafi’i, al-Diwan
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Mawa’idh al-Imam Ahmad Ibn Hanbal
As a follow-up project to the ‘Mawa’idh Imam al-Shafi’i (stored here), a new project will be starting up insha’Allah: A collection of Imam Ahmad’s advice, quotations, wisdoms.
They’ll be taken predominantly from the book titled ‘Mawa’idh al-Imam Ahmad ibn Hanbal by the same author (Salih Ahmad al-Shami).
All entries will be collected in this category, and each post title is preceded by the code: A# (e.g. A1, A2, A3 etc).
May we always benefit from the words, actions and characters of our past scholars, preserved throughout History.