Suspicion and Spying

Allaah, Exalted is He, says: “O you who believe, avoid much suspicion for indeed much suspicion is sin. Do not spy on each other …”
This noble verse contains the command to steer clear of much suspicion and highlights that much suspicion is sin. It also prohibits spying: searching and hunting for the mistakes and defects [...]

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Combatting Pride

Hasan Al-Basree advised some of his students admonishing them about avoiding the state of being proud. He said:
1) Do not deceive yourself into becoming too proud because you are in a good or righteous environment, for there is no place that is better than Paradise, and our father, Adam ‘alayhi salaam, experienced there what is [...]

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Heedless Hearts

Point of Benefit from the Tafseer of Shaykh ‘Uthaymeen Raheemahullaah

He (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:
“When you see that your time is passing by, and your age is going, and you are not in a schedule of something beneficial, nor praiseworthy, and you don’t see the blessings in the time you spend, then be [...]

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Why We Can’t Attach Our Feet In Salaah

…and from it is the saying of Anas, may Allaah be pleased with him, in a Sunnah from the Sunan of Salaat; and it is the spacing in the Salaat; that a Muslim stands beside his Muslim brother and attaches his feet, knees and shoulders to his brother without being excessive or negligent, as was [...]

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Sins Generate More Sins

Ibn al-Qayyim (may Allaah have mercy on him) said:  
 
Sins generate more sins, and one leads to another, until they overpower a man and he finds it difficult to repent from that. As one of the earlier generation said: One of the punishments of bad deeds is more bad deeds, and one of the rewards of [...]

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The Battle of Uhud

The Most High says, “Those of you who turned back on the day the two hosts met (i.e. the battle of Uhud), it was Shaytaan who caused them to backslide because of some of the sins they had earned.” (Soorah Aal-Imraan (3):155 )

In the battle of Uhud when the archers who had been ordered by [...]

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Music: The Wisdom Behind Its Prohibition

“From among the artful machinations and entrapments of Allah’s enemy [Satan], with which he has snared those possessing little good sense, knowledge and deen [faith], and by which he has stalked the hearts of the false and ignorant people, there is the listening to whistling, wailing, handclapping and song to the accompaniment of forbidden [...]

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Unrestrained Glances

Poisons of the Heart : Unrestrained Glances
Ibn al Qayyim al Jawziyya
 
 
The unrestrained glance results in the one who looks becoming attracted to what he sees, and in the imprinting of an image of what he sees in his heart. This can result in several kinds of corruption in the heart of the servant. [...]

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Giving Pleasing Names to Forbidden Things

From Shaytan’s Deceptions:

Giving Pleasing Names to Forbidden Things
Among the deceptions of Satan is that he names the evil actions with names that are very pleasing to the human to entice him to take part in them. In this way, he dupes the human and makes a forgery of the reality of the situation. For [...]

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The Heart’s Captivation and Imprisonment by Sin

And among its effects is that the disobedient (sinner) is constantly in the shackles of his Shaytaan and the prison of his shahwa (desires) and the chains/fetters of his hawaa (whims). So he is a captive, one who is imprisoned and who is tied up.
There is no captive in a worse state than [...]

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