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Sometimes when you are given things, you are not given them a second time, so cherish what you have!
- You have to manage your time. You have to reflect on what you have missed.
- If you are person who reflects, be sincere in that.
- Guard your heart against anything other than Allah.
- Make your heart the dergah/house of Allah, make the name Allah the sultan of your heart.
- Guard your tongue from excessive speech.
- Always be the person who makes tawba and istagfir.
- Understand the value of every moment. You are only born with a number of breaths!
- Let not any moment be wasted, make every moment be beneficial.
- Afflictions are many, but the greatest affliction is the passage of time without any benefit.
- You have to have thirst for knowledge as a means for your salvation. What are you going to do in that moment Allah has given you?
- Take your cup and fill it with beneficial knowledge, and also for others who are in this stage- others can benefit from.
- Your intention should be that you want to revive the deen when seeking knowledge.
- Books are not the same as people who carry knowledge.
- You want to be a means of knowledge through your tongue and actions.
- If there is place of ‘Rida’, (Contentmemt), it’s al-Jaanah (paradise) where death does not even enter.
- By saying Bismillah in front of everything, you attach it to the Eternal! Allah is the All-Living. The simplest things can go far so intend to say Bismillah before you begin or do anything.
- Missing prayer is a big thing, it’s like missing an appointment with Allah! Would you miss an appointment for a job interview?
- You yourself will become a source of guidance to other people.
- There is an inward and outward aspect of knowledge.
- Sometimes ignorance is a good thing; sometimes knowledge is a curse for people because they acquire it and then don’t implement.
- Knowledge is as the tree, and worship is the fruit of knowledge.
- The beginning of your knowledge has Shariah and Tariqa. Shariah is what the Law giver gives you. Shariah is there to align you with Paradise!
- The best good you’ll ever have is Allah’s contentment with you, so obtain it through implementing the shariah.
- Cling to the Qur’an and Sunnah, instead of being like a cheap post it note that, before you know it, has fallen off.
- The best thing you want is Rida of Allah!
- Adab is everything; the meaning of ‘Adab’ is how you carry yourself.
- You must never lose expectation or hope that you can be someone you are not in terms of adab.
- Ikhlaaq is about transforming yourself.
- Your nafs is there to be trained. Nafs wants to be like spilled water and pour over everything, but you need to channel it through Shariah.
- Your whole life is about renewing character traits and molding yourself. Look at the character of the Prophet sallaAllahu alayhi waslam and mold yourself.
- Don’t be like a candle whose light benefits all yet it does not benefit itself from its own light. Work on yourself first!
- A companion never leaves you.
- An imtihaan (test) is a moment of exposure from Allah. He wants us to see our fracture points in our life. As long as we are in the realms of brokenness, there’s potential for completeness.
- When you are alone, in solitude you know your relationship with Allah. When you are alone, there should be a state you are in with Allah, if you are bored, it shows your relationship with Allah.
- Be a positive, optimistic kind of a person; don’t be one of those “doom and gloom waiting for the Mahdi” kind of a Muslim.
- All organs are passageways to the heart.
- Be humble.
- Focus attention on Allah, make one objective and that is Allah!
- What is inside you comes out. If there is stillness of Allah in you, it will come out! If you are agitated inside, it will come out in your speech.
- Don’t put all your trust on things or people, they’re no more reliable than you are. Rather, rely upon Allah!
- If there is a divine command, you fulfill it.
- The more you avoid harm, the higher you rise.
- Success is getting through the door of al-Jaanah (Paradise).
- Don’t justify your sins by blaming it on Divine Decree.
- You have to have constant remembrance of Allah.
- Every thorn thrown by the Beloved becomes a rose in the eye of the lover.
- Marriage reveals who you really are and it’s up to you if you accept that truth and grow. And if you never grow you never bear fruit.
~ Shaykh Naeem Abdul Wali – ‘The Beginning of Guidance’ lesson, Rihla 2011, Bursa, Turkey (Paraphrased)
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- Duas are very powerful; they are conversations between you and Allah.
- Raise your hands and communicate to Him. We have many needs, we need to ask Allah.
- Never mention anyone’s faults in front of them, by doing so you hurt their feelings and doing it behind their back is backbiting.
- Don’t pry on other people and ask their affairs, they may be forced to lie because they didn’t want to tell you in the first place!
- When someone tells you a secret, keep it that way, it’s an amanah (trust)
- Slander is haram (forbidden). Focus on the good that people have and not their faults. If you feel speaking evil of someone, then think that you have faults as well so focus on them. Higher level is not even allowing your heart to think bad/evil about someone.
- As well as inheriting good, we can also inherit bad from them so be careful with the company you chose to keep.
- Never say no to others when giving charity; even if it is a little bit, Allah never says NO to you when you ask!
- Life is a journey; we go through different states. People have different spiritual states. We need to learn how to dislike the sin not the sinner. Never let them feel you are judgemental.
- Allah gives you the tawfiq to repent; so when you repent, know that Allah is going to forgive you.
- When someone comes and apologise to you, accept their apology!
- Rights with Allah is easy; when you do something wrong, you ask for His forgiveness. When you wrong others, you need to ask them for their forgiveness.
- Dress nicely for Allah when you pray, go to a masjid etc. You dress nicely so others notice you, but dress nicely for Allah. Dressing nicely but humbly at the same time. You should feel comfortable in good clothes in public
- Little good manners is better then a lot of good actions
- Retail therapy is not therapy, it is a disease!
- Haya (modesty) is in the heart; our physical movement is what attracts us to the opposite gender.
- When you are sincere in giving a gift to someone, the recipient will value and treasure it due to your sincerity, regardless of what the gift actually is.
- If you are the youngest, remain silent in front of elders.
- Never interrupt people when they are talking!
- Do not sit amongst sinning people and do not sleep where people are talking.
- A promise is a responsibility so fulfil promises you make.
- Manners are based on common sense.
- Be around good people and good people will teach you good things; be around bad people and you will pick up bad things.
- When travelling, wherever you stop, pray 2 rakats so that place testifies for you on the day of Judgement, and it won’t be you reminding Allah but that place reminding Allah that you prayed here.
- There are very few people in this world who want you to succeed more than themselves, and among them are your parents. Even if your parents are wrong, don’t argue with them. Allah is watching every argument. If you please your parents, you will succeed in life.
- Pray for your departed loved ones; Prayers for the dead are on the same footing as gifts for the living.
- Pray for your brothers and sisters. When you pray for your brother, an angel replies, ‘and for you the same.’ It’s like buy one, get one free deal!
- When an elder member dies, it means one of your doors of duas is closed so when they are alive, build your relationship with them and seek their duas.
~ Imam Tahir Anwar– ‘Adab- Virtuous Character and Conduct’ Class, Rihla 2011, Bursa, Turkey (Quotes above are paraphrased)
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When the souls of believers come together to a gathering like this (i.e Rihla), it is the feast of the spirits. Your spirit is fed, your spirit is nourished, just by being with everyone here. There is no smaller or greater; all believers are the same and all believer are saints, all believers are awliya, and all awliyas’ have degrees. One of the greatest things about being together is that you open yourself to that transformation, that is the reason why adab is so important. Adab is not a formality. Be yourself. Be and say what you feel, but the secret of adab is that in your heart you have a high opinion of God, and a high opinion of your brothers and sisters- Husn ad-Dhann. Having a good opinion of God is the highest forms of worship. Having adab is very important; having a good opinion of everyone around you. By elevating the status in your eyes of everyone around you, only then you will feel benefit……. We are in much more need of adab then knowledge…..
~ Dr Umar Abd-Allah, Rihla 2011- Orientation session (Paraphrased)
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