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Muslim governors as Islam spread east and west with astonishing rapidity. Two objectives occupied Uqbah's attention throughout his life; the search for knowledge and Jihaad in the path of God.
In the last part of the book, as he explains, Imaam An-Nawawee devotes a chapter to what is forbidden and disliked from speech, such as backbiting, gossiping, and slander. So he brings the evidences from the Qur’aan and Sunnah on the obligation of guarding the tongue from evil speech.
Listen to what Allah ( ) tells us is success: “And by the soul, and Him who perfected (it in propor-tion). Then He showed it what is wrong for it and what is correct. Indeed he is successful who purifies it (the soul). And indeed he fails who corrupts it.” [Ash-Shams 91: 7 - 10]
- Speech Is Not Just Verbal
- The Book and The Wisdom
- Speak only of What Concerns You
- Giving Yourself A Break
- Excessive Speech
- What Distinguishes The Awliya
- Free Up Your Memory
- Increasing Presence with Allah
- Humility Is The Child of Dhikr
While the pre-modern books such as the Ihyaare talking about things we actually say, that we pronounce [verbally], obviously, that extends to any which way we may communicate. That includes not just what we say, but what we write, what we tweet, what we disseminate. Even what we retweet. What we propagate. We may not have said it, we may not have o...
I think it behooves us to be even even more careful. To heed the words of our Imams, of our ulama, like Imam al-Ghazali and others, who pondered these issues and studied the Qur’an and Sunna very closely. They arrived at this articulation of the hikma, the wisdom. And the Qur’an refers to the Sunna itself as hikma, as wisdom. Everything about our S...
Sura al-Hujurat 49:12 gives us a very physical description of the person who backbites. “Would you like to eat the dead flesh of your brother?” One of the hadith mentions that there were two women who were fasting and they started backbiting people and they became very ill. Then they regurgitated, they threw up, and the hadith says that meat and bo...
Obviously, there is the other concept also. What we call istijmam (recreation), which is like tarwih (relief). You do need to go to less serious times in order to have aid and help for your more serious times. We are human beings. We can’t be very on 24/7. We’re not angels in that regard. Some of the Sahaba complained to the Prophet, blessings and ...
So fudul al-kalam, it’s about leaving that which is doesn’t concern one. It’s better to err on the side of caution. The Sahaba used to count the number of words they would say in the day. I’ll bring up social media again because social media makes you feel like whatever you have to say is important. It also makes you feel like “I need to have an op...
How many of the people who can boast of their ritual prayers, how many prayers they’ve done, how many days they’ve fasted, how much money they give to sadaqa. Then this comes emblematic of the din. It’s an aspect of the din, even pillars of the din, but it doesn’t mean that that’s the measure of where one is with one’s relationship with Allah Most ...
Ibn Ata’illah al-Sakandari says, “How are you going to reach a greater understanding of the divine, Allah Most High, and the pictures of the forms are imprinted on your heart?” They occupy your thoughts. Your subconscious works continuously and your subconscious can work for you or against you. You may not be actively watching that last movie or li...
That’s why when people ask, “How do I have more presence of mind and heart in the prayer? I just get in the prayer and I’m just busy and I can’t focus and I can’t concentrate.” The problem is not your prayer, the problem is what you’re doing outside of the prayer. When you begin to have hudur or presence outside of the prayer, then you have presenc...
The effect it should have is to make you more humble, to make you more agreeable with people. Not more difficult with people. More agreeable, more humble, easier to get along with. The Prophet, blessings and peace be upon him, said, “The closest people to me on the day of judgment will be the ones who are best in character,” the ones who get along ...
The Banes of the Tongue (Kitāb āfāt al-lisān) is the fourth of the ten books that comprise the Quarter of Perils (Rubʿ al-muhlikāt) of Iḥyā ʿulūm al-dīn (The Revival of the Religious Sciences). This book enumerates the misuses of the tongue that constitute fatal character flaws, the essential
This document summarizes a sermon about guarding one's tongue. It discusses how the tongue can lead to major sins if not used properly. It emphasizes that words have tremendous power and importance in Islam. For example, sincerely reciting the Shahadah can absolve a lifetime of sins.
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In this paper, I will try to elaborate some of the most important principles, limits and restrains on freedom of speech from the Islamic perspective and its major differences from the western freedom of expression.
