“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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Tawfiq: True Guidance from Allah
As I went book-shopping the other day (watch this space for details on how that went), I picked up a nice kutayb (very small book) from the publishers on the topic of Tawfiq by Sh. Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid – I think the book is actually based on a khutbah he did last year. I felt it would be good to translate it and share with everyone because sometimes I believe we misunderstand what it really means to seek the tawfiq of Allah in our affairs – and how many of us sadly do not even seek the tawfiq of Allah at all!
May Allah grant the shaykh himself a great deal of tawfiq in all that’s good, he did a good job in explaining the matter and highlighting its importance.
التـوفـيـق
Al-Tawfiq
By Shaykh Muhammad Salih al-Munajjid
Al-Tawfiq
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